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American encounters : natives and newcomers from European contact to Indian removal, 1500-1850 / edited by Peter C. Mancall, James H. Merrell.

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Publisher's description: The updated and revised second edition of American Encounters features new essays from the vibrant field of Native American studies and the classic essays on early Native American history from the first edition. Over the past thirty years, historians, anthropologists, a...

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Other Authors: Mancall, Peter C., Merrell, James Hart, 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2007]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Indians of North America > First contact with other peoples.
Indians of North America > History.
Indians of North America > Relocation.
Table of Contents:
  • PROLOGUE: "The Indians' old world : Native Americans and the coming of Europeans" / Neal Salisbury
  • "The Indians' new world : the Catawba experience" / James H. Merrell
  • PART ONE : CONTACT ARENAS : DEMOCRACY AND DISEASE: "Virgin soils revisited" / David S. Jones
  • IDEOLOGY AND SPIRITUALITY: "Iroquois women, European women" / Natalie Zemon Davis
  • "Women, kin, & Catholicism : new perspectives on the fur trade" / Susan Sleeper-Smith
  • "The Berdache and the Illinois Indian tribe during the last half of the seventeenth century" / Raymond Hauser
  • "Indians, missionaries, and religious translation : creating Wampanoag Christianity in seventeenth-century Martha's Vineyard" / David J. Silverman
  • "Dreaming of the Savior's blood : Moravians and the Indian great awakening in Pennsylvania" / Jane T. Merritt
  • "Of missionaries and their cattle : Ojibwa perceptions of a missionary as evil shaman" / Rebecca Kugel
  • ECONOMY AND EXCHANGE: "Encounters with spirits : Ojibwa and Dakota theories about the French and their merchandise" / Bruce M. White
  • "King Philip's herds : Indians, colonists, and the problem of livestock in early New England" / Virginia DeJohn Anderson
  • '"The bewitching tyranny of custom' : the social costs of Indian drinking in colonial America" / Peter C. Mancall
  • "The frontier exchange economy of the lower Mississippi Valley in the eighteenth century" / Daniel H. Usner, Jr.
  • "The first whalemen of Nantucket" / Daniel Vickers
  • "White & clean' & contested : Creek towns and trading paths in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War" / Joshua A. Piker
  • "The rise and fall of Plains Indian horse cultures" / Pekka Hämäläinen
  • DIPLOMACY AND WARFARE: "A diplomacy of gender : rituals of first contact in the 'Land of the Tejas'" / Juliana Barr
  • "War and culture : the Iroquois experience" / Daniel K. Richter
  • "'A little flesh we offer you' : the origins of Indian slavery in New France" / Brett Rushforth
  • "The White Indians of colonial America" / James Axtell
  • "This evil extends especially ... to the feminine sex' : negotiating captivity in the New Mexico borderlands" / James F. Brooks
  • "Dressing for success on the Mohawk frontier : Hendrick, William Johnson, and the Indian fashion" / Timothy J. Shannon
  • PART TWO : FROM REVOLUTION TO REMOVAL, AND BEYOND: "Thinking and believing : nativism and unity in the ages of Pontiac and Tecumseh" / Gregory Evans Dowd
  • "The right to a name : the Narragansett people and Rhode Island officials in the revolutionary era" / Ruth Wallis Herndon and Ella Wilcox Sekatau
  • "Taking account of property : stratification among the Creek Indians in the early nineteenth century" / Claudio Saunt
  • "The staff of leadership : Indian authority in the mission of Alta California" / Steven W. Hackel
  • "'More motley than Mackinaw' : from ethnic mixing to ethnic cleansing on the frontier of the lower Missouri, 1783-1833" / John Mack Faragher
  • "The winning of the West : the expansion of the western Sioux in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries" / Richard White.

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