The People of the Standing Stone: The Oneida Nation from Revolution through the Era of Removal

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List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xix 1 A Place and a People in a Time of Change: The Oneida Homeland in the 1760s 1 2 Narrowing Paths: Oneida Foreign Relations, 1763–1775 20 3 The Dilemmas of Alliance: The Oneidas’ American Revolution, 1775–1784 39 4 Misplaced Faith: A Decade of Dispossession, 1785–1794 65 5 In a Drowned Land: State Treaties and Tribal Division, 1795–1814 96 6 The Nation in Fragments: Oneida Removal, 1815–1836 129 7 Diaspora and Survival, 1836–1850 157 Conclusion 187 Appendix. Selected Oneida Population Counts, 1763–1856 193 Abbreviations 195 Notes 197 Index 241 Supplementary material available at scholarworks.umass.edu/umpress Contents ...