Contested Spaces of Early America

Contents

contents  Introduction. Maps and Spaces, Paths to Connect, and Lines to Divide 1 Juliana Barr and Edward Countryman PART I. SPACES AND POWER Chapter 1. The Shapes of Power: Indians, Europeans, and North American Worlds from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century 31 Pekka Hämäläinen Chapter 2. Dispossession in a Commercial Idiom: From Indian Deeds to Land Cession Treaties 69 Allan Greer PART II. SPACES AND LANDSCAPES Chapter 3. The Mandans: Ecology, Population, and Adaptation on the Northern Plains 95 Elizabeth Fenn Chapter 4. Colonial Spaces in the Fragmented Communities of Northern New Spain 115 Cynthia Radding viii Contents Chapter 5. Transformations: The Rio de la Plata During the Bourbon Era 142 Raúl José Mandrini PART III. SPACES AND RESETTLEMENTS Chapter 6. Blurred Borders: North America’s Forgotten Apache Reservations 163 Matthew Babcock Chapter 7. The Forced Transfer of Indians in Nueva Vizcaya and Sinaloa: A Hispanic Method of Colonization 184 Chantal Cramaussel Chapter 8. Remaking Americans: Louisiana, Upper Canada, and Texas 208 Alan Taylor PART IV. SPACES AND MEMORY Chapter 9. Blood Talk: Violence and Belonging in the Navajo–New Mexican Borderland 229 Brian DeLay Chapter 10. Toward a New Literary History of the West: Etahdleuh Doanmoe’s Captivity Narrative 257 Birgit Brander Rasmussen Chapter 11. Toward an Indigenous Art History of the West: The Segesser Hide Paintings 276 Ned Blackhawk Chapter 12. The Borderlands and Lost Worlds of Early America 300 Samuel Truett Contents ix Notes 325 List of Contributors 409 Index 413 Acknowledgments 427 This page intentionally left blank Contested Spaces of Early America This page intentionally left blank ...