1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460395903321

Autore

Clark Jerry E.

Titolo

The Shawnee / / Jerry E. Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2007

©1993

ISBN

0-8131-4893-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (118 p.)

Disciplina

973/.04973

Soggetti

Shawnee Indians - History

Shawnee Indians - Social life and customs

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 History of the Shawnee; 3 Social Organization; 4 Subsistence and Technology; 5 Ideology and Expressive Culture; 6 Conservatism, Dependency, and Migration; 7 Relations with Other Indians; 8 Relations with Whites; 9 Conclusion; Bibliographical Essay; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

Many Indian tribes claimed Kentucky as hunting territory in the eighteenth century, though for the most part their villages were built elsewhere. For the Shawnee, whose homeland was in the Ohio and Cumberland valleys, Kentucky was an essential source of game, and the skins and furs were vital for trade. When Daniel Boone explored Kentucky in 1769, a band of Shawnee warned him they would not tolerate the presence of whites there. Settlers would remember the warning until 1794 and the Battle of the Fallen Timber. In The Shawnee, Jerry E. Clark eloquently recounts the bitter struggle between whit



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA990005365600403321

Autore

Hanfmann, George Maxim Anossov <1911-1986>

Titolo

Report / [George M.A. Hanfmann]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

s.l., : Harvard College, c.1962

Descrizione fisica

2 c. ; 32 cm

Locazione

FLFBC

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Estratto da "The fifth campaign at sardis". A supplement to the Annual Report of the Fogg Art Museum for 1962