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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe. Image cartographique : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Sleeper-Smith, Susan
Titre(s) : Indigenous prosperity and American conquest [Texte imprimé] : Indian women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792 / Susan Sleeper-Smith
Publication : Williamsburg (Va.) : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel
Hill : University of North Carolina Press, copyright [2018]
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (x, 348 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color),
maps ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"What frustrated Washington was his ongoing failure to induce Indians north of the
Ohio to cede their lands ... Washington had sought to pacify the Indians by abandoning
the doctrine of discovery and reimbursing them for their lands. But they continued
to refuse to come to the treaty table, condemned further land cessions north of the
Ohio, and formed the first northwestern Indian confederacy to oppose intrusion on
their homelands ... Washington had to find other means to undercut Indian resistance.
Those means involved razing villages, destroying the crops, and taking hostage the
women and children the warriors were trying to protect ... Washington ordered the
Kentucky militia to cut a wide swath of terror though agrarian communities clustered
along the Wabash. Those villages, primarily populated by women, served as the breadbasket
for Indian forces. Washington believed that the destruction of these communities and
the kidnapping of their women and children would force those warriors to return to
their villages and abandon their resistance to Washington's forces. He had done it
successfully to the Seneca during the Revolutionary War, and he planned to do it again"--Introduction
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Indian women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792
Sujet(s) : Indiennes d'Amérique -- Ohio, Vallée de l' (États-Unis) -- 18e siècle
Indiens d'Amérique -- Relations avec l'État -- Ohio, Vallée de l' (États-Unis) -- 18e siècle
Enlèvement -- Ohio, Vallée de l' (États-Unis) -- 18e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781469640587. - ISBN 1469640589. - ISBN 9781469640594 (erroné). - ISBN 9781469659169.
- ISBN 1469659166
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46901915m
Notice n° :
FRBNF46901915
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction ; The agrarian village world of the Ohio Valley Indians ; The evolution
of the Indian fur trade : from Green Bay to the Wabash River Valley ; Reopening the
Western trade ; Webs of community : "The Gris and Turtle came to us and breakfasted
with us as usual" ; Picturing prosperity ; Plunder and massacre ; Capturing Indian
women ; Aftermath : "I foresaw, that if I parted with my land, I should reduce the
women and children to weeping."
