One Vast Winter Count

by Calloway, Colin G.

• ISBN13: 9780803215306
• ISBN10: 0803215304
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

This magnificent, sweeping work traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century. Emphasizing conflict and change,One Vast Winter Countoffers a new look at the early history of the region by blending ethnohistory, colonial history, and frontier history. Drawing on a wide range of oral and archival sources from across the West, Colin G. Calloway offers an unparalleled glimpse at the lives of generations of Native peoples in a western land soon to be overrun.

Author Biography

Colin G. Calloway is the Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies, professor of history, and chair of the Native American studies program at Dartmouth College. He is the coeditor of Germans and Indians: Fantasies, Projections, Encounters (Nebraska 2002) and the author of many works, including New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
List of Maps	x
Series Editor's Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
A Note on Terminology	xvii
Prologue: Land and History in the American West	1	(24)
Part 1: The West before 1500
Chapter 1: Pioneers	25	(42)
Origins and Emergences	25	(8)
Hunters and Hunted	33	(11)
Fishers and Foragers	44	(9)
People and Identities in Motion	53	(14)
Chapter 2: Singing Up a New World	67	(52)
Becoming Corn People	68	(5)
First Farmers and Town Builders in the Southwest	73	(23)
Mississippian Corn Chiefdoms	96	(8)
Corn Towns on the Prairies	104	(9)
Corn at Contact	113	(6)
Part 2: Invaders South and North, 1500-1730
Chapter 3: Sons of the Sun and People of the Earth	119	(46)
First Sons	121	(11)
Mexico Invades New Mexico	132	(13)
The Colonization and Missionization of New Mexico	145	(9)
Pueblos and Spaniards in a Wider Indian World	154	(11)
Chapter 4: Rebellions and Reconquests	165	(48)
The Pueblo War of Independence	165	(12)
An Epidemic of Rebellions	177	(9)
The Reconquest of New Mexico	186	(10)
After the Reconquest	196	(17)
Chapter 5: Calumet and Fleur-de-lys	213	(54)
New Men in Birchbark Canoes	214	(5)
Pelts, Plagues, and Priests	219	(6)
Killing Fields and Middle Grounds	225	(18)
The Mississippi and Beyond	243	(20)
Ambivalent Allies	263	(4)
Part 3: Winning and Losing in the West, 1700-1800
Chapter 6: The Coming of the Centaurs	267	(46)
Horses across the West	268	(8)
All Change on the Southern Plains	276	(17)
Shifting Balances of Power in the Northwest	293	(8)
Corn Power to Horse Power on the Upper Missouri	301	(12)
Chapter 7: People In Between and People on the Edge	313	(54)
The Bloody Edges of Empire	314	(17)
The Ohio Valley and a World War in Indian Country	331	(15)
War against Empire	346	(10)
Reverberations in the West	356	(11)
Chapter 8: The Killing Years	367	(60)
A Revolution Pushes West	367	(9)
War and Some Peace in the Provincias Internas	376	(19)
The World Rushed In	395	(20)
Smallpox Used Them Up	415	(12)
Epilogue: The Slave in the Chariot	427	(8)
Notes	435	(134)
Selected Bibliography	569	(28)
Index	597