Author: Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Book News
Author: Journal of Education
Author: The Publishers Weekly
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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest
Author: Susan Sleeper-SmithPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469640597
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian women created in the lush lands of the Ohio Valley. Algonquian-speaking Indians living in a crescent of towns along the Wabash tributary of the Ohio were able to evade and survive the Iroquois onslaught of the seventeenth century, to absorb French traders and Indigenous refugees, to export peltry, and to harvest riparian, wetland, and terrestrial resources of every description and breathtaking richness. These prosperous Native communities frustrated French and British imperial designs, controlled the Ohio Valley, and confederated when faced with the challenge of American invasion. By the late eighteenth century, Montreal silversmiths were sending their best work to Wabash Indian villages, Ohio Indian women were setting the fashions for Indigenous clothing, and European visitors were marveling at the sturdy homes and generous hospitality of trading entrepots such as Miamitown. Confederacy, agrarian abundance, and nascent urbanity were, however, both too much and not enough. Kentucky settlers and American leaders—like George Washington and Henry Knox—coveted Indian lands and targeted the Indian women who worked them. Americans took women and children hostage to coerce male warriors to come to the treaty table to cede their homelands. Appalachian squatters, aspiring land barons, and ambitious generals invaded this settled agrarian world, burned crops, looted towns, and erased evidence of Ohio Indian achievement. This book restores the Ohio River valley as Native space.
New England Journal of Education
Author: Thomas Williams BicknellPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Worlds the Shawnees Made
Author: Stephen WarrenPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469611732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America
Ohio Valley History
Author: Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley
Author: William Henry VenablePublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
James Whitcomb Riley
Author: Elizabeth J. Van AllenPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253335913
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Van Allen sifts facts from fiction to construct as true a portrait of Riley as possible in the context of the society in which he lived."--BOOK JACKET.
The Cambridge History of Native American Literature
Author: Melanie Benson TaylorPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108643183
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 927
Book Description
Native American literature has always been uniquely embattled. It is marked by divergent opinions about what constitutes authenticity, sovereignty, and even literature. It announces a culture beset by paradox: simultaneously primordial and postmodern; oral and inscribed; outmoded and novel. Its texts are a site of political struggle, shifting to meet external and internal expectations. This Cambridge History endeavors to capture and question the contested character of Indigenous texts and the way they are evaluated. It delineates significant periods of literary and cultural development in four sections: “Traces & Removals” (pre-1870s); “Assimilation and Modernity” (1879-1967); “Native American Renaissance” (post-1960s); and “Visions & Revisions” (21st century). These rubrics highlight how Native literatures have evolved alongside major transitions in federal policy toward the Indian, and via contact with broader cultural phenomena such, as the American Civil Rights movement. There is a balance between a history of canonical authors and traditions, introducing less-studied works and themes, and foregrounding critical discussions, approaches, and controversies.