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Author:

Prior, Charles W. A. author.

Title:

Settlers in Indian country : sovereignty and Indigenous power in early America / Charles W. A. Prior.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

60 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Indians of North America--Northeastern States--History--History--18th century.
Sovereignty--History--18th century.
Diplomacy--History--18th century.
Indians of North America--History.
Sovereignty.
Indians of North America--Government relations.
Indians of North America--Politics and government.

Summary:

The aim of this Element is to foreground Native American conceptions of sovereignty and power in order to refine the place of settler colonialism in American colonial and early republican history. It argues that Indigenous concepts of sovereignty were rooted in complex metaphorical language, in historical understandings of alliance, and in mobility in a landscape of layered interconnections of power. Where some versions of the interpretive paradigm of settler colonialism emphasise the violent 'elimination of the native', this work reveals that diplomatic transactions between the Iroquois Confederacy and British colonial and imperial agents reveal a hybrid language of alliance, sovereignty and territory. These languages and concepts of inter-cultural diplomacy provide contexts that suggest a more nuanced and dynamic relationship between colonialism and Indigenous power.

Series:

Cambridge elements.
Elements in comparative political theory

ISBN:

1108793398
9781108793391

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1193066466

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)