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Peoples of the Inland Sea: Native Americans and Newcomers in the Great Lakes Region, 1600-1870 - Paperback | Diverse Reads

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Diverse in their languages and customs, the Native American peoples of the Great Lakes region-the Miamis, Ho-Chunks, Potawatomis, Ojibwas, and many others-shared a tumultuous history. In the colonial era their rich homeland became a target of imperial ambition and an invasion zone for European diseases, technologies, beliefs, and colonists. Yet in the face of these challenges, their nations' strong bonds of trade, intermarriage, and association grew and extended throughout their watery domain, and strategic relationships and choices allowed them to survive in an era of war, epidemic, and invasion. In Peoples of the Inland Sea, David Andrew Nichols offers a fresh and boundary-crossing history of the Lakes peoples over nearly three centuries of rapid change, from pre-Columbian times through the era of Andrew Jackson's Removal program. As the people themselves persisted, so did their customs, religions, and control over their destinies, even in the Removal era. In Nichols's hands, Native, French, American, and English sources combine to tell this important story in a way as imaginative as it is bold. Accessible and creative, Peoples of the Inland Sea is destined to become a classroom staple and a classic in Native American history.

ISBN-13: 9780821423202

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Publication Date: 06-18-2018

Pages: 286

Product Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

Series: New Approaches to Midwestern History

David Andrew Nichols is a professor of history at Indiana State University. He is the author of two previous books on Native American history, Red Gentlemen and White Savages (2008) and Engines of Diplomacy (2016). He is also the North American book review editor for the journal Ethnohistory.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Series Editors' Preface xi

Introduction 1

1 Once and Future Civilizations 11

2 The European Disruption 24

3 France's Uneasy Imperium 40

4 The Hazards of War 57

5 Nativists and Newcomers 73

6 Revolutionary Stalemate 92

7 The United Indians versus the United States 109

8 Survival and Nation Building on the Edge of Empire 129

9 Reckoning with the Conquerors 148

10 Trails of Death and Paths of Renewal 167

Conclusion: The Last Imperial War and the Last Removals 192

Acknowledgments 205

Notes 207

Bibliography 235

Index 261