New Worlds for All : Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America

by Calloway, Colin G.

• ISBN13: 9780801859595
• ISBN10: 080185959X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-02-18
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

In New Worlds for All, Calloway explores the unique and vibrant new cultures that Indians and Europeans forged together in early America. The process, Calloway writes, lasted longer than the United States has existed as a nation. During that time, most of America was still "Indian country", and even in areas of European settlement, Indians and Europeans remained a part of each other's daily lives: living, working, worshiping, traveling, and trading together - as well as fearing, avoiding, despising, and killing one another. Ranging across the continent and over 300 years, New Worlds for All describes encounters between Spanish conquistadors and Zuni warriors, Huron shamans and French Jesuit missionaries, English merchants and Montagnais traders. Calloway's discussion of conflict and cooperation includes the use of natural resources and shared knowledge about trail networks, herbal medicines, metal tools, and weapons. He depicts the European emulation of Indian military tactics, the varied responses of Indian societies to Christianity, attempts made on all sides to learn the languages and customs of the other, and the intermingling of peoples at the fringes of competing cultures - through captivity and adoption, attempts to escape one's own society and embrace another, or intermarriage. The New World, Calloway concludes, brought new identities for all, as Indian and European cultures combined to create a uniquely American identity.

Author Biography

Colin G. Calloway is professor of history and Native American studies at Dartmouth College. His previous books include The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities, nominated for a 1995 Pulitzer Prize; The Western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600-1800: War, Migration, and the Survival of an Indian People; and Crown and Calumet: British-Indian Relations, 1783-1815.

Table of Contents

Maps
Preface and Acknowledgments
Timeline
Introduction: The Kaleidoscope of Early America	p. 1
Imagining and Creating a New World	p. 8
Healing and Disease	p. 24
The Stuff of Life	p. 42
A World of Dreams and Bibles	p. 68
New World Warfare and a New World of War	p. 92
New World Diplomacy and New World Foreign Policies	p. 115
New Nomads and True Nomads	p. 134
Crossing and Merging Frontiers	p. 152
New Peoples and New Societies	p. 178
Conclusion: New Americans and First Americans	p. 195
Bibliographical Essay	p. 199
Index	p. 219
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