Trade, Land, Power: The Struggle for Eastern North America

Contents

Contents Introduction 1 Part I. Native Power and European Trade Chapter 1. Tsenacomoco and the Atlantic World: Stories of Goods and Power 13 Chapter 2. Brothers, Scoundrels, Metal-Makers: Dutch Constructions of Native American Constructions of the Dutch 42 Chapter 3. “That Europe be not Proud, nor America Discouraged”: Native People and the Enduring Politics of Trade 53 Chapter 4. War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience 69 Chapter 5. Dutch Dominos: The Fall of New Netherland and the Reshaping of Eastern North America 97 Chapter 6. Brokers and Politics: Iroquois and New Yorkers 113 Part II. European Power and Native Land Chapter 7. Land and Words: William Penn’s Letter to the Kings of the Indians 135 Chapter 8. “No Savage Should Inherit”: Native Peoples, Pennsylvanians, and the Origins and Legacies of the Seven Years War 155 viii Contents Chapter 9. The Plan of 1764: Native Americans and a British Empire That Never Was 177 Chapter 10. Onas, the Long Knife: Pennsylvanians and Indians After Independence 202 Chapter 11. “Believing that Many of the Red People Suffer Much for the Want of Food”: A Quaker View of Indians in the Early U.S. Republic 227 Notes 251 Index 307 Acknowledgments 315 ...