Born of lakes and plains mixed-descent peoples and the making of the American West
"A revealing history of the West that pivots on Native peoples and the mixed families they made with European settlers. There is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using marriage to link communities and protect people...
| Main Author: | Hyde, Anne Farrar, 1960- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2022]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Ozhaguscodaywaquay and John Johnston : mixing blood in the fur trade, 1670-1790
- Wintering families and corporate war, 1770-1810
- Fur trade migrants : Pacific McKays and Canadian Johnstons, 1800-1820
- "This kind of business will make trouble" : remaking the fur trade, 1810-1830
- From the Sault to the Oregon Country : mingling blood and land, 1818-1838
- Forging peace on the southern plains, 1821-1840
- Rivers of trouble in Indian Country, 1831-1843
- "Marked for slaughter" : borderland violence in the 1840s
- Surviving war and peace in the 1850s
- Civil wars in the West, 1860-1865
- Reconstructing race on western reservations, 1866-1885
- "A mighty pulverizing engine" : allotment policy and blood quantum, 1880-1907
- Epilogue: The twentieth century.