基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2005.
Full Description
Stephen Warren traces the transformation in Shawnee sociopolitical organization over seventy years as it changed from village-centric, multi-tribe kin groups to an institutionalized national government led by wealthy men with only marginal kin ties to the people they claimed to represent. The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795-1870 lays bare the myths and histories produced by Shawnee interpreters and their vested interests in modernizing the tribes. Until recently, historians have assumed that Central Algonquians derive from politically unified tribes, but by analyzing the crucial role that individuals, institutions, and policies played in shaping modern tribal governments, Warren reveals a messier, more complicated history of migration and conflict. Ultimately, Warren establishes that the form of the modern Shawnee "tribe" was coerced in accordance with the U.S. government's desire for an entity with whom to do business, rather than as a natural development of traditional Shawnee ways.
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. Tribal Identity in a Time of Multiethnic Confederacies, 1795-1813 13
2. The Ohio Shawnees' Struggle against Removal, 1813-1833 43
3. A Third Way to a Separate Ground: Rethinking Indian Resistance on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier, 1780-1830 69
4. The Nexus of Faith and Power on the Reservation, 1830-1845 97
5. The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus: Wealth, Nationalism, and Its Discontents, 1845-1860 127
6. Dissent and Removal: Competing Sovereigns in the Civil War Era 155
Notes 175
Index 209
