The memory of all ancient customs : Native American diplomacy in the colonial Hudson Valley / / Tom Arne Midtrød

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825937403321
• Autore: Midtrød Tom Arne <1976->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, c2012
• ISBN: 0-8014-6459-5; 0-8014-6412-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (332 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.1197
• Soggetti: Indians of North America - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Indians of North America - Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) - Government relations; Indians of North America - Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) - Politics and government - 17th century; Indians of North America - Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) - Politics and government - 18th century; Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) Ethnic relations; New York (State) History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Introduction: Politics and Society -- 1. Ties That Bound -- 2. Patterns of Diplomacy -- 3. Struggling with the Dutch -- 4. Living with the English -- 5. Friends and Enemies -- 6. In the Shadow of the Longhouse -- 7. Change and Continuity -- 8. War and Disunity -- 9. Disaster and Dispersal -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In The Memory of All Ancient Customs, Tom Arne Midtrød examines the complex patterns of diplomatic, political, and social communication among the American Indian peoples of the Hudson Valley-including the Mahicans, Wappingers, and Esopus Indians-from the early seventeenth century through the American Revolutionary era. By focusing on how members of different Native groups interacted with one another, this book places Indians rather than Europeans on center stage.Midtrød ; uncovers a vast and multifaceted Native American world that was largely hidden from the eyes of the Dutch and English colonists who gradually displaced the indigenous peoples of the Hudson Valley. In The Memory of All Ancient Customs he establishes the surprising extent to which numerically small and militarily weak Indian groups continued to understand the world around them in their own terms, and as often engaged- sometimes violently, sometimes cooperatively-with neighboring peoples to the east (New England Indians) and west (the Iroquois ) as with the Dutch and English colonizers. Even as they fell more and more under the domination of powerful outsiders-Iroquois as well as Dutch and English-the Hudson Valley Indians were resilient, maintaining or adapting features of their traditional diplomatic ties until the moment of their final dispossession during the American Revolutionary War.