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Indigenous prosperity and American conquest : Indian women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792

Title: Indigenous prosperity and American conquest : Indian women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792 / Susan Sleeper-Smith.
Author: Sleeper-Smith, Susan
Publication: Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

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Description

x, 348 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 25 cm

Summary

"What frustrated Washington was his ongoing failure to induce Indians north of the Ohio to cede their lands ... Washington had sought to pacify the Indians by abandoning the doctrine of discovery and reimbursing them for their lands. But they continued to refuse to come to the treaty table, condemned further land cessions north of the Ohio, and formed the first northwestern Indian confederacy to oppose intrusion on their homelands ... Washington had to find other means to undercut Indian resistance. Those means involved razing villages, destroying the crops, and taking hostage the women and children the warriors were trying to protect ... Washington ordered the Kentucky militia to cut a wide swath of terror though agrarian communities clustered along the Wabash. Those villages, primarily populated by women, served as the breadbasket for Indian forces. Washington believed that the destruction of these communities and the kidnapping of their women and children would force those warriors to return to their villages and abandon their resistance to Washington's forces. He had done it successfully to the Seneca during the Revolutionary War, and he planned to do it again"--Introduction.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- The agrarian village world of the Ohio Valley Indians -- The evolution of the Indian fur trade : from Green Bay to the Wabash River Valley -- Reopening the Western trade -- Webs of community : "The Gris and Turtle came to us and breakfasted with us as usual" -- Picturing prosperity -- Plunder and massacre -- Capturing Indian women -- Aftermath : "I foresaw, that if I parted with my land, I should reduce the women and children to weeping."

Call Number

JFE 18-1358

ISBN

9781469640587
1469640589

LCCN

2017059439

OCLC

1005593806

Author

Sleeper-Smith, Susan, author.

Title

Indigenous prosperity and American conquest : Indian women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792 / Susan Sleeper-Smith.

Publisher

Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1600-1865

Research Call Number

JFE 18-1358

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