The Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments, ix 1 / Rethinking Place and Identity in American Indian Histories, 1 PART 1 / CONTINUITY AND REINVENTION AT THE DAWN OF COLONIZATION, 25 2 / The Parochial Cosmopolitans of the Middle Ohio Valley, 27 3 / Nitarikyk’s Slave: A Fort Ancient Odyssey, 57 PART 2 / THE LURE OF COLONIAL BORDERLANDS, 81 4 / A Ranging Sort of People: Migration and Slavery on the Savannah River, 83 5 / The Grand Village of the Kaskaskias: Old Allegiances, New Worlds, 107 6 / “Mixt Nations” at the Head of the Bay: The Iroquois, Bacon’s Rebels, and the Peoples in Between, 134 PART 3 / BECOMING STRANGERS: THE LONG HISTORY OF REMOVAL, 155 7 / One Head and One Heart: Migration, Coalescence, and Penn’s Imagined Community on the Lower Susquehanna, 157 8 / One Colour and as One Body: Race, Trade, and Migration to the Ohio Country, 180 9 / Race, Revitalization, and Warfare in the Eighteenth-Century Southeast, 208 Epilogue / Reconsidering the “Literary Advantage,” 224 Notes, 231Bibliography, 267Index, 291 ...