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Northern Indian Removal: An Unfamiliar History, John Bowes
Northern Indian Removal: An Unfamiliar History, John Bowes
John P. Bowes
No abstract provided.
Uncommon Defense: Indian Allies In The Black Hawk War, John Bowes
Uncommon Defense: Indian Allies In The Black Hawk War, John Bowes
John P. Bowes
The Black Hawk War has received an inordinate amount of attention over the years, most recently in Black Hawk: The battle for the Heart of America, by Kerry A. Trask (2006) and The Black Hawk War of 1832, by Patrick J. Jung (2007). Yet not until Uncommon Defense by John W. Hall has anyone closely examined the decisions made by the Menominees, Dakotas, Ho Chunks, and Potawatomis who allied with the forces of the United States in that conflict. In what is an accessible an enlightening study, Hall asserts that those Indian allies “were the true architects of an alliance …
Great Lakes Indian Accommodation And Resistance During The Early Reservation Years, 1850-1900, John Bowes
Great Lakes Indian Accommodation And Resistance During The Early Reservation Years, 1850-1900, John Bowes
John P. Bowes
In his latest book, Great Lakes Indian Accommodation and Resistance, Edmund Jefferson Danziger presents a sound and straightforward argument. Through a series of chapters that cover reservation life, allotment, education policy, and missionary activity, the message is clear: American Indian residents of the Great Lakes region in the second half of the nineteenth century were active agents in their lives, not passive victims of federal government policies or settler invasions. It is an argument that noticeably reflects the critical developments of scholarship over the past several decades. And while some might debate the usefulness of such phrasing as accommodation versus …
Histories Of Order And Empires, John Bowes
Histories Of Order And Empires, John Bowes
John P. Bowes
This is, at first glance, an odd pairing of books. One covers several centuries of Comanche history on the southern plains and the other focuses on the post-Revolution Ohio Valley. Pekka Hämäläinen explores a variety of anthropological and ethnohistorical sources to produce a wide-ranging analysis of Comanche internal and external life. David Andrew Nichols surveys the writings and records of citizens and politicians to bring more attention to the connections between national politics and local power struggles in the early American republic. Despite these apparent differences, however, both of these works have similar questions at their respective cores. Perhaps most …
Restoring The Chain Of Friendship: British Policy And The Indians Of The Great Lakes, 1783-1815, John Bowes
Restoring The Chain Of Friendship: British Policy And The Indians Of The Great Lakes, 1783-1815, John Bowes
John P. Bowes
Over the past three decades scholars have examined the history of the Great Lakes region in the period covered by Timothy D. Willig in Restoring the Chain of friendship. Some of the most notable products of those efforts, including Colin Calloway's Crown and Calumet (1987), Richard White's The Middle Ground (1991), and Alan Taylor's The Divided Ground (2006), have laid an important foundation for our understanding of native peoples in this region and their negotiations with British and American policies and officials in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Willig acknowledges the contributions of these and other scholars but …
Enduring Nations: Native Americans In The Midwest, John Bowes
Enduring Nations: Native Americans In The Midwest, John Bowes
John P. Bowes
Enduring Nations is a collection that encompasses the work of twelve different scholars to highlight the ways in which the Native peoples of the states that once com- prised the Old Northwest Territory played critical roles in the history of the region, adapted to their changing world through successive waves of European and American colonialism, and persisted to the present-day. As David Edmunds notes in his introduction, just over 17 percent of all Native Americans currently reside within the states of the Great Lakes region. The contributors to this volume use a number of different historical events, individuals, and perspectives …
The Black Hawk War Of 1832, John Bowes
The Black Hawk War Of 1832, John Bowes
John P. Bowes
Because it is most often viewed as the last display of violent resistance to American expansion in the Old Northwest, the conflict dubbed the Black Hawk War has received attention from numerous individuals over the past 170 years. Even Black Hawk felt it necessary to explain the war’s causes and events in writing. Patrick J. Jung’s book is the most recent addition to the historiography that examines the Sauk Indian Black Hawk and the conflict of 1832 that has long borne his name. It also follows close on the heels of Kerry Trask’s Black Hawk: The Battle for the Heart …
The Gnadenhutten Effect: Moravian Converts And The Search For Safety In The Canadian Borderlands, John Bowes
The Gnadenhutten Effect: Moravian Converts And The Search For Safety In The Canadian Borderlands, John Bowes
John P. Bowes
In 1782, 96 Moravian Indian converts, mostly Munsee Delawares, were systematically massacred at the Gnadenhutten settlement on the Muskingum River in Ohio. After the massacre, they struggled to find a new home in the Great Lakes region. Often finding themselves living in a war zone, the Moravians and the Indians were subject to raids, rumors, and misunderstandings, and in 1792 they made the decision to cross into Canada, where they established a successful settlement on the Thames River in Ontario. Ironically, during the War of 1812, the Battle of the Thames destroyed their settlement, but in 1815 they returned to …
Native People Of North America: A History, John Bowes
Native People Of North America: A History, John Bowes
John P. Bowes
For those who teach survey courses, a textbook often serves as a foundation for classroom discussions and lectures. The book provides the basic material and overview so that classroom presentations have the opportunity to be more wide-ranging or specific depending on the teacher’s preference. A well constructed textbook is an extremely valuable tool. At present, instructors of American history have a plethora of options from which to choose. This is not the case with those of us who teach Native American history or Native studies. Consequently, it is always heartening to see someone attempt to create an overview of historical …
Demanding The Cherokee Nation: Indian Autonomy And American Culture, 1830-1900, John Bowes
Demanding The Cherokee Nation: Indian Autonomy And American Culture, 1830-1900, John Bowes
John P. Bowes
In Demanding the Cherokee Nation, Andrew Denson takes on two very important tasks. First, he addresses the history of the Cherokee Nation in the years after their forced removal west of the Mississippi River. Second, he examines in great detail the ways the Cherokee leadership defined, protected, and promoted the political autonomy of the Cherokee Nation in relation to the U.S. government in the mid- to late nineteenth century. Other historians, most notably William McLoughlin, have written about the postremoval experience of the Cherokee and have illustrated the necessity of discussing the years after the Trail of Tears. But no …
The Boundaries Between Us: Natives And Newcomers Along The Frontiers Of The Old Northwest Territory, 1750-1850, John Bowes
John P. Bowes
Of the eleven essays included in The Boundaries between Us, only the final two fail to reference Richard White’s The Middle Ground in their endnotes. This does not come as a surprise, because this collection revolves around the Old Northwest Territory and because White’s interpretive framework has loomed so large over American Indian historiography in the fifteen years since its publication. Yet the strength and popularity of the middle ground as a concept might be viewed as both a blessing and a curse.
The Great Confusion In Indian Affairs: Native Americans & Whites In The Progressive Era, John Bowes
The Great Confusion In Indian Affairs: Native Americans & Whites In The Progressive Era, John Bowes
John P. Bowes
According to Holm, the absence of a theortical framework caused the confusion in Federal Indian policy during the Progressive Era, a period stretching roughly from the 1890s to the 1920s. As the nineteenth century drew to a close, hardened supporters of assimilation like Richard Henry Pratt struggled to operate in an American society that began to view as worthy certain elements of American Indian culture like art and environmental preservation.
Indians And Emigrants: Encounters On The Overland Trails, John Bowes
Indians And Emigrants: Encounters On The Overland Trails, John Bowes
John P. Bowes
No abstract provided.
Ties That Bind: The Story Of An Afro-Cherokee Family In Slavery And Freedom, John Bowes
Ties That Bind: The Story Of An Afro-Cherokee Family In Slavery And Freedom, John Bowes
John P. Bowes
In Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom, Miles utilizes the experiences of one family to analyze the intersection of African-American slavery, Cherokee sovereignty and kinship obligations, and gender roles over the course of the nineteenth century.