LEADER 04933nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910781614703321 005 20220316205104.0 010 $a1-283-21160-2 010 $a9786613211606 010 $a0-8122-0182-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201826 035 $a(CKB)2550000000050968 035 $a(OCoLC)759158219 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491967 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000649361 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12309266 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000649361 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10602036 035 $a(PQKB)10251650 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8344 035 $a(DE-B1597)449036 035 $a(OCoLC)979954168 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201826 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441510 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10491967 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441510 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000050968 100 $a20051215d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe native ground$b[electronic resource] $eIndians and colonists in the heart of the continent /$fKathleen DuVal 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (331 p.) 225 1 $aEarly American studies 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-1939-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographic references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. A Bordered Land, to 1540 --$tChapter 2. Hosting Strangers, 1541-1650 --$tChapter 3. Negotiators of a New Land, 1650-1740 --$tChapter 4. An Empire in the West, 1700-1777 --$tChapter 5. New Alliances, 1765-1800 --$tChapter 6. Better at Making Peace Than War, 1790-1808 --$tChapter 7. A New Order, 1808-1822 --$tChapter 8. The End of the Native Ground? 1815-1828 --$tConclusion --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn The Native Ground, Kathleen DuVal argues that it was Indians rather than European would-be colonizers who were more often able to determine the form and content of the relations between the two groups. Along the banks of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers, far from Paris, Madrid, and London, European colonialism met neither accommodation nor resistance but incorporation. Rather than being colonized, Indians drew European empires into local patterns of land and resource allocation, sustenance, goods exchange, gender relations, diplomacy, and warfare. Placing Indians at the center of the story, DuVal shows both their diversity and our contemporary tendency to exaggerate the influence of Europeans in places far from their centers of power. Europeans were often more dependent on Indians than Indians were on them. Now the states of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Colorado, this native ground was originally populated by indigenous peoples, became part of the French and Spanish empires, and in 1803 was bought by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase. Drawing on archaeology and oral history, as well as documents in English, French, and Spanish, DuVal chronicles the successive migrations of Indians and Europeans to the area from precolonial times through the 1820's. These myriad native groups-Mississippians, Quapaws, Osages, Chickasaws, Caddos, and Cherokees-and the waves of Europeans all competed with one another for control of the region. Only in the nineteenth century did outsiders initiate a future in which one people would claim exclusive ownership of the mid-continent. After the War of 1812, these settlers came in numbers large enough to overwhelm the region's inhabitants and reject the early patterns of cross-cultural interdependence. As citizens of the United States, they persuaded the federal government to muster its resources on behalf of their dreams of landholding and citizenship. With keen insight and broad vision, Kathleen DuVal retells the story of Indian and European contact in a more complex and, ultimately, more satisfactory way. 410 0$aEarly American studies. 606 $aIndians of North America$zArkansas River Valley$xHistory 606 $aIndians of North America$xFirst contact with other peoples$zArkansas River Valley 606 $aColonists$zArkansas River Valley$xHistory 607 $aArkansas River Valley$xEthnic relations 607 $aArkansas River Valley$xHistory 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aNative American Studies. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xHistory. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xFirst contact with other peoples 615 0$aColonists$xHistory. 676 $a976.7/300497 700 $aDuVal$b Kathleen$01563644 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781614703321 996 $aThe native ground$93832204 997 $aUNINA