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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828286403321

Titolo

Contested territories [[electronic resource] ] : native Americans and non-natives in the lower Great Lakes, 1700-1850 / / edited by Charles Beatty-Medina and Melissa Rinehart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-62895-065-X

1-60917-341-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Beatty MedinaCharles

RinehartMelissa

Disciplina

977.00497

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Land tenure - Great Lakes Region (North America)

Indians of North America - First contact with other peoples - Great Lakes Region (North America)

Indians of North America - Great Lakes Region (North America) - History

Great Lakes Region (North America) History

Great Lakes Region (North America) Race relations

Great Lakes Region (North America) Politics and government

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.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword by Greg O'Brien; Acknowledgments; Introduction by Melissa Rinehart and Charles Beatty-Medina; A Year at Niagara: Negotiating Coexistence in the Eastern Great Lakes, 1763-1764 - Daniel Ingram; "Foolish Young Men" and the Contested Ohio Country, 1783- 1795 - Sarah E. Miller; Native American- French Interactions in Eighteenth-Century Southwest Michigan: The View from Fort St. Joseph - Michael S. Nassaney, William M. Cremin, and LisaMarie Malischke; Old Friends in New Territories: Delawares and Quakers in the Old Northwest Territory - Dawn Marsh

Delawares in Eastern Ohio after the Treaty of Greenville: The Goshen Mission in Context - Amy C. SchuttMiami Resistance and Resilience during the Removal Era - Melissa Rinehart; The Politics of Indian



Removal on the Wyandot Reserve, 1817- 1843 - James Buss; Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A remarkable multifaceted history, Contested Territories examines a region that played an essential role in America''s post-revolutionary expansion-the Lower Great Lakes region, once known as the Northwest Territory. As French, English, and finally American settlers moved westward and intersected with Native American communities, the ethnogeography of the region changed drastically, necessitating interactions that were not always peaceful. Using ethnohistorical methodologies, the seven essays presented here explore rapidly changing cultural dynamics in  the region and reconstruct in engaging