Author: Randolph C. DownesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Council Fires on the Upper Ohio
Author: Randolph C. DownesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Council Fires On the Upper Ohio
Author: Randolph DownesPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 9780822971269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Told from the viewpoint of the Indians, this account of Indian-white relations during the second half of the eighteenth century is an exciting addition to the historical literature of Pennsylvania.From the beginning, when the white traders followed the first Shawnee hunters into Pennsylvania, until the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794, the region's history was the history of the relationship between the Indians and the whites. For nearly half a century the Indian maintained a precarious hold upon Western Pennsylvania by playing one white faction off against the anther, first the French against the British, then the British against the Americans.
Council Fires on the Upper Ohio
Author: Randolph Chandler DownesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Council Fires on Upon the Upper Ohio
Author: Randolph Chandler DownesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Council Fires on the Upper Ohio; a Narrative of Indian Affairs in the Upper Ohio Valley Until 1795, by Randolph C. Downes, with Headpiece Illustrations by Alex Ross
Author: Randolph Chandler DownesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
People of the Seven Council Fires
Author: Arlene NashCouncil Fires
Author: Ellsworth JaegerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Camping
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
The 7 Council Fires
Author: David SealsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781887786164
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Redemption from Tyranny
Author: Bruce E. StewartPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081394371X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
For many common people, the American Revolution offered an opportunity to radically reimagine the wealth and power structures in the nascent United States. Yet in the eyes of working-class activists, the U.S. Constitution favored the interests of a corrupt elite and betrayed the lofty principles of the Declaration of Independence. The discontent of these ordinary revolutionaries sparked a series of protest movements throughout the country during the 1780s and 1790s. Redemption from Tyranny explores the life of a leader among these revolutionaries. A farmer, evangelical, and political activist, Herman Husband (1724-1795) played a crucial role in some of the most important anti-establishment movements in eighteenth-century America--the Great Awakening, the North Carolina Regulation, the American Revolution, and the Whiskey Rebellion. Husband became a famous radical, advocating for the reduction of economic inequality among white men. Drawing on a wealth of newly unearthed resources, Stewart uses the life of Husband to explore the varied reasons behind the rise of economic populism and its impact on society during the long American Revolution. Husband offers a valuable lens through which we can view how "labouring, industrious people" shaped--and were shaped by--the American Revolution.
Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian
Author: Gary Clayton AndersonPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806145072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Mention “ethnic cleansing” and most Americans are likely to think of “sectarian” or “tribal” conflict in some far-off locale plagued by unstable or corrupt government. According to historian Gary Clayton Anderson, however, the United States has its own legacy of ethnic cleansing, and it involves American Indians. In Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian, Anderson uses ethnic cleansing as an analytical tool to challenge the alluring idea that Anglo-American colonialism in the New World constituted genocide. Beginning with the era of European conquest, Anderson employs definitions of ethnic cleansing developed by the United Nations and the International Criminal Court to reassess key moments in the Anglo-American dispossession of American Indians. Euro-Americans’ extensive use of violence against Native peoples is well documented. Yet Anderson argues that the inevitable goal of colonialism and U.S. Indian policy was not to exterminate a population, but to obtain land and resources from the Native peoples recognized as having legitimate possession. The clashes between Indians, settlers, and colonial and U.S. governments, and subsequent dispossession and forcible migration of Natives, fit the modern definition of ethnic cleansing. To support the case for ethnic cleansing over genocide, Anderson begins with English conquerors’ desire to push Native peoples to the margin of settlement, a violent project restrained by the Enlightenment belief that all humans possess a “natural right” to life. Ethnic cleansing comes into greater analytical focus as Anderson engages every major period of British and U.S. Indian policy, especially armed conflict on the American frontier where government soldiers and citizen militias alike committed acts that would be considered war crimes today. Drawing on a lifetime of research and thought about U.S.-Indian relations, Anderson analyzes the Jacksonian “Removal” policy, the gold rush in California, the dispossession of Oregon Natives, boarding schools and other “benevolent” forms of ethnic cleansing, and land allotment. Although not amounting to genocide, ethnic cleansing nevertheless encompassed a host of actions that would be deemed criminal today, all of which had long-lasting consequences for Native peoples.