Richter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the responses of the peoples of the Iroquois League?the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras?to the challenges of
In this sweeping collection of essays, one of America's leading colonial historians reinterprets the struggle between Native peoples and Europeans in terms of how each understood the material basis of
In this sweeping collection of essays, one of America's leading colonial historians reexamines struggles between Native peoples and Europeans in early America in terms of how each understood the mater
America began, we are often told, with the Founding Fathers, the men who waged a revolution and created a unique place called the United States. We may acknowledge the early Jamestown and Puritan colo
A book that spans 700 years of pre-U.S. history traces the deepest origins of America, looking at the Native Americans, Spaniards, French, Dutch, Africans and English in their home countries and as th
In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers.Or
Anthropologist Grumet has written the first complete history of the Munsee people, best known as the tribe who (probably) sold Manhattan for $24 worth of trade goods. Living mainly in what is now New
Two powerfully contradictory images dominate historical memory when we think of Native Americans and colonists in early Pennsylvania. To one side is William Penn’s legendary treaty with the Lenape at
The contributors to Facing Empire reimagine the Age of Revolution from the perspective of indigenous peoples. Rather than treating indigenous peoples as distant and passive players in the political st
For centuries the Western view of the Iroquois was clouded by the myth that they were the supermen of the frontier—"the Romans of this Western World," as De Witt Clinton called them
