A collection of previously written essays. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- "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. Brothers, scoundrels, metal-makers : Dutch constructions of Native American constructions of the Dutch -- "That Europe be not proud, nor America discouraged" : native people and the enduring politics of trade -- War and culture : the Iroquois experience -- Dutch dominos : the fall of New Netherland and the reshaping of eastern North America -- Brokers and politics : Iroquois and New Yorkers -- Land and words : William Penn's letter to the kings of the Indians -- "No savage should inherit" : native peoples, Pennsylvanians, and the origins and legacies of the Seven Years War -- The plan of 1764 : Native Americans and a British empire that never was -- Onas, the Long Knife : Pennsylvanians and Indians after independence -- "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.
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