American Encounters

by Mancall, Peter C.

• ISBN13: 9780415923750
• ISBN10: 0415923751
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Newly expanded, the second edition of American Encounters provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date collection of scholarship on the Native American experience from European contact through the Removal Era. Retaining the hallmark essays from the celebrated first edition, the second edition contains thirteen new essays, emphasizing the most recent, noteworthy areas of inquiry, including gender relations, slavery and captivity, and the effects of Christianity on the course of native history. With each essay prefaced by helpful headnotes that highlight key concepts and draw connections among the essays, plus an expansive 'Further Readings' section, the second edition of American Encounters is an indispensable volume for both professors and students of early American history.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Chronology	xiii
Prologue
``The Indians' Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of Europeans''	3	(23)
Neal Salisbury
``The Indians' New World: The Catawba Experience''	26	(27)
James H. Merrell
PART ONE Contact Arenas
Demography and Disease
``Ecological Imperialism: The Overseas Migration of Western Europeans as a Biological Phenomenon''	53	(15)
Alfred W. Crosby
Ideology and Spirituality
``Amerindian Views of French Culture in the Seventeenth Century''	68	(28)
Cornelius J. Jaenen
``Iroquois Women, European Women''	96	(23)
Natalie Zemon Davis
``The Berdache and the Illinois Indian Tribe during the Last Half of the Seventeenth Century''	119	(18)
Raymond Hauser
``Generations of Faith: The Christian Indians of Martha's Vineyard''	137	(24)
James P. Ronda
``Of Missionaries and Their Cattle: Ojibwa Perceptions of a Missionary as Evil Shaman''	161	(15)
Rebecca Kugel
Economy and Exchange
``A New Perspective on Indian-White Contact: Cultural Symbols and Colonial Trade''	176	(18)
Christopher L. Miller
George R. Hamell
``The Bewitching Tyranny of Custom': The Social Costs of Indian Drinking in Colonial America''	194	(22)
Peter C. Mancall
``The Frontier Exchange Economy of the Lower Mississippi Valley in the Eighteenth Century''	216	(24)
Daniel H. Usner, Jr.
``The Three Lives of Keowee: Loss and Recovery in the Eighteenth-Century Cherokee Villages''	240	(21)
M. Thomas Hatley
``The First Whalemen of Nantucket''	261	(22)
Daniel Vickers
Diplomacy and Warfare
``War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience''	283	(28)
Daniel K. Richter
``Ruling `the Republic of Indians' in Seventeenth-Century Florida''	311	(13)
Amy Turner Bushnell
``The White Indians of Colonial America''	324	(27)
James Axtell
``Dressing for Success on the Mohawk Frontier: Hendrick, William Johnson, and the Indian Fashion''	351	(28)
Timothy J. Shannon
PART TWO From Revolution to Removal, and Beyond
``Thinking and Believing: Nativism and Unity in the Ages of Pontiac and Tecumseh''	379	(25)
Gregory Evans Dowd
``The Glaize in 1792: A Composite Indian Community''	404	(22)
Helen Hornbeck Tanner
``The Right to a Name: The Narragansett People and Rhode Island Officials in the Revolutionary Era''	426	(26)
Ruth Wallis Herndon
Ella Wilcox Sekatau
``Cherokee Anomie, 1794-1810: New Roles for Red Men, Red Women, and Black Slaves''	452	(25)
William G. McLoughlin
``The Staff of Leadership: Indian Authority in the Missions of Alta California''	477	(28)
Steven W. Hackel
``Levantamiento!: The 1824 Chumash Uprising Reconsidered''	505	(21)
James A. Sandos
``Cherokee Women and the Trail of Tears''	526	(15)
Theda Perdue
``The Winning of the West: The Expansion of the Western Sioux in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries''	541	(22)
Richard White
Further Reading	563	(6)
Notes on Contributors	569	(2)
Permissions Acknowledgments	571	(2)
Index	573