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acknowledgments This book began its life as a chapter I planned to add to a revision of my  University of Michigan dissertation on eighteenth-century Iroquois history. Now, one decade later, I am delighted to have the opportunity to thank the many people who helped make it possible. Ian Steele at the University of Western Ontario and John Shy at the University of Michigan provided examples of scholarship and professionalism that continue to motivate and inspire me to the present day. I can never repay the faith they placed in me. David Lloyd at St. Lawrence University took a chance and hired me as a newly minted Ph.D. in . Both David and Len Moore (now at McGill University), remain great friends and key professional advocates. I had the good fortune to join the History Department at Cornell in , a wonderful place in which to think, teach, and write. My departmental colleagues encouraged me to rethink the monograph I had planned to write, and their questions, critiques, and insights have proven enormously influential over the past six years. Among them, I thank especially Ed Baptist, Derek Chang, Sherm Cochran, Ray Craib, Maria Cristina Garcia, Durba Ghosh, Sandra Greene, Itsie Hull, Michael Kammen, Holly Kase, Vic Koschmann, Fred Logevall, Tamara Loos, Larry Moore, Barry Strauss, Eric Tagliacozzo, Robert Travers, Maggi Washington, and Rachel Weil. My senior colleague in early American history, Mary Beth Norton, has been a true mentor in all aspects of my professional life from the moment of my arrival at Cornell, and I am deeply grateful for all that she has done on my behalf. I also thank the Department for its many years of financial support from the Faculty Research Fund and the Return J. Meigs Fund. In addition to my departmental colleagues, I have also received help and support from many colleagues in the wider Cornell University community. Jane Mt. Pleasant of the American Indian Program (AIP) provided generous junior faculty research funds that supported my work on this book. Eric Cheyfitz and Audra Simpson (now at Columbia University), read my work and offered their advice. Kurt Jordan, my colleague at Cornell, was most influential in getting me to take historical archaeology seriously—this book would look very different without the near-daily conversations  xvii xviii  acknowledgments we have shared for the past five years. I thank him for his longstanding patience with a disciplinary outsider. Several undergraduate research assistants at Cornell (Becca Wall, Erica Hartwell, and Jess Herlich) helped me get all my “data” organized for efficient analysis. Bob Kibbee of the Maps and Geospatial Information Collection at Olin Library introduced me to Nij Tontisirin, a graduate student in City and Regional Planning at Cornell. Nij worked tirelessly to produce all the maps in the book and ran all the GIS analyses used in Appendix . Greg Tremblay extricated me from innumerable hardware snafus and introduced me to the world of dual-screen computing. e staff at the Olin Library (especially David Block, Peter Hirtle, Anne Kenney, and the Interlibrary Loan Department) ensured that I had not only an outstanding collection but also a treasured faculty study in which to write in peace and quiet. Tom Bollenbach and Peter Holquist persuaded me in late  to return to active participation in ice hockey, and I have been “between the pipes” on a weekly basis ever since. Beyond Cornell, a number of colleagues answered questions and offered feedback on my ideas. I hasten to add that they bear no responsibility for any mistakes or omissions that may appear below. My thanks to Gerald Taiaiake Alfred, Salli Benedict, Wallace Chafe, Neal Ferris, Jim Folts, Charles Garrad, Charly Gehring, George Hamell, Lawrence Jackson, Jaap Jacobs, Jordan Kerber, Tobi Morantz, Paul Otto, Kees-Jan Waterman, and Hanni Woodbury. I also benefited from the expertise and intellectual generosity of the following professional and avocational archaeologists: Monte Bennett, Bill Engelbrecht, Wayne Lenig, Martha Sempowski, and Greg Sohrweide. Douglas Mackey of the New York State Historic Preservation Office, Dr. Christina Rieth of the New York State Museum, and Sheryl Smith of Parks Canada’s Ontario Service Center made critical archaeological data available for my research, for which I thank them. I received external funding for the research and writing that produced this book from the New York State Archives Partnership Trust (Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Fellowship), the American Philosophical Society (Philips Fund Grant for Native American Research), and the Huntington Library (Robert L. Middlekau...

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