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Author:

Harper, Steven Craig, 1970-

Title:

Promised land : Penn's holy experiment, the Walking Purchase, and the dispossession of Delawares, 1600-1763 / Steven Craig Harper.

Publisher:

Associated University Presses,
Associated University Presses,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

164 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Delaware Indians--History--Pennsylvania--History--17th century.
Delaware Indians--History--Pennsylvania--History--18th century.
Indian land transfers--Pennsylvania--History--17th century.
Indian land transfers--Pennsylvania--History--18th century.
Indians of North America--Pennsylvania--Government relations.
Frontier and pioneer life--Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Pennsylvania--Ethnic relations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-159) and index.

Contents:

Lenapehoking -- Possession Lawfully Taken -- Peaceable Possession -- What ye Indians Call ye Hurry Walk -- No More Brothers and Friends -- "Border Men, Civilized Indians, and Savages": Cultural Identities in the Wake of the Walking Purchase -- "Appearing Fair and Just" -- Dimensions of Delaware Power in Penn's Woods.

ISBN:

9780934223775
9780934223775 (alk. paper)
0934223777 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61179552

LCCN:

2005021547

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)