Native Americans in the American Revolution : how the war divided, devastated, and transformed the early American Indian world /

For many colonists, the American Revolution provided the opportunity to continue displacing Native Americans. This book provides an account of the role of Native Americans in the Revolution's outbreak, progress, and conclusion. It provides full coverage of the Revolution's effects on Nativ...

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Main Author: Schmidt, Ethan A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • Guide to the principal Native American groups during the Revolutionary Era, grouped by religion
  • Timeline of the major events of the American Revolution, including those relating to Native Americans
  • Introduction : the Great War for Empire and the end of triangular native diplomacy
  • 1. Pontiac's Rebellion, the proclamation of 1763 and the new British Indian policy
  • 2. The collapse of British Indian policy in the South
  • 3. The collapse of British Indian policy in the North
  • 4. The collapse of British Indian policy in the West
  • 5. The Revolutionary War in the South
  • 6. The Revolutionary War in the North
  • 7. The Revolutionary War in the West
  • 8. "Like we should soon become no people" : the assault on Indian land in the immediate aftermath of the American Revolution
  • Conclusion: The struggle continues.