LEADER 04390nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910825974803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0379-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203790 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418204 035 $a(EBL)3442085 035 $a(OCoLC)859160719 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26737 035 $a(DE-B1597)449197 035 $a(OCoLC)1013954668 035 $a(OCoLC)979740822 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203790 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442085 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748462 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442085 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418204 100 $a20060822d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPeoples of the river valleys $ethe odyssey of the Delaware Indians /$fAmy C. Schutt 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 225 0 $aEarly American studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8122-2024-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [195]-238) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPrologue "Sachems from nine different places" --$tChapter 1. Communities and Kin --$tChapter 2. Reorganizations and Relationships in the Hudson and Delaware Valleys, 1609-82 --$t'He knew the best how to order them' --$tChapter 3. Sharing Lands and Asserting Rights in the Face of Pennsylvania's Expansion, 1682-1742 --$tChapter 4. Networks, Alliances, and Power, 1742-65 --$t"All the people which inhabit this Continent" --$tChapter 5. Defining Delawares, 1765-74 --$tChapter 6. Striving for Unity with Diversity, 1768-83 --$tEpilogue. "Sit down by us as a nation" --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aSeventeenth-century Indians from the Delaware and lower Hudson valleys organized their lives around small-scale groupings of kin and communities. Living through epidemics, warfare, economic change, and physical dispossession, survivors from these peoples came together in new locations, especially the eighteenth-century Susquehanna and Ohio River valleys. In the process, they did not abandon kin and community orientations, but they increasingly defined a role for themselves as Delaware Indians in early American society.Peoples of the River Valleys offers a fresh interpretation of the history of the Delaware, or Lenape, Indians in the context of events in the mid-Atlantic region and the Ohio Valley. It focuses on a broad and significant period: 1609-1783, including the years of Dutch, Swedish, and English colonization and the American Revolution. An epilogue takes the Delawares' story into the mid-nineteenth century.Amy C. Schutt examines important themes in Native American history-mediation and alliance formation-and shows their crucial role in the development of the Delawares as a people. She goes beyond familiar questions about Indian-European relations and examines how Indian-Indian associations were a major factor in the history of the Delawares. Drawing extensively upon primary sources, including treaty minutes, deeds, and Moravian mission records, Schutt reveals that Delawares approached alliances as a tool for survival at a time when Euro-Americans were encroaching on Native lands. As relations with colonists were frequently troubled, Delawares often turned instead to form alliances with other Delawares and non-Delaware Indians with whom they shared territories and resources. In vivid detail, Peoples of the River Valleys shows the link between the Delawares' approaches to land and the relationships they constructed on the land. 410 0$aEarly American Studies 606 $aDelaware Indians$xHistory 606 $aDelaware Indians$xSocial life and customs 607 $aMiddle Atlantic States$xHistory 607 $aMiddle Atlantic States$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aDelaware Indians$xHistory. 615 0$aDelaware Indians$xSocial life and customs. 676 $a974.004/97345 700 $aSchutt$b Amy C$01637016 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825974803321 996 $aPeoples of the river valleys$93978579 997 $aUNINA