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The Shawnees and the War for America: The Penguin Library of American Indian History series (Penguin Library of...
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by Colin G. Calloway
Sales Rank: 429875
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 256 pages
Published by: Viking Adult July 5, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0670038628
ASIN: B000ZJYDAY
Book Dimensions:
7.6 x 5.9 x 1 inches
Weighs: 8.8 ounces
From Publishers Weekly
In placing the Shawnee center stage, Calloway (editor of the Penguin Library of American Indian History and Dartmouth Native American studies chair) achieves a remarkably accessible distillation of Shawnee history. He guides the reader through a thicket of wandering as the Shawnees' forced movement scatters them from the Ohio Valley during the late 17th century, before they reassembled in Ohio in the mid-18th century, and then gathered again in Oklahoma in the 19th century. The Shawnees stand out as hard liners when it came to defending Native lands, Native rights, and Native ways of life, says Calloway. Indeed, their history is a cycle of killings and revenge killings, battles and massacres by both sides, swallowing up those who made accommodations (Black Hoof and the model farm at Wapakoneta) as well as those who resisted (the legendary brothers, Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh). Daniel Boone, who played a key role in destroying the Shawnees' world in Kentucky, is part of that history, as is General Amherst, who advocated using germ warfare. The treks and treaties are not always easy reading, but Calloway's text is enlivened with judicious first-person excerpts and his passion for his subject. His heart is with the Shawnees, but he writes with balance of the fateful meeting of the cultures on the frontiers. (July)
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Calloway is the editor of this newly launched Penguin Library of American Indian History and the author of its initial title on the Shawnees. His discussion focuses on the history of the Shawnees in the Ohio Valley, where they became the hub of tribal networks stretching from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico as the valley became the focal point of the contest between Britain and France for control of Ohio country. Calloway traces Shawnee attempts to stem America's push westward after the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 (a "blueprint for national expansion") and their vision of an independent Indian state—a vision that "died with Tecumseh" in 1813. Donovan, Deborah
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This review is from: The Shawnees and the War for America: The Penguin Library of American Indian History series (Penguin Library of American Indian History) (Hardcover)
Shawnees and the War for America is an excellent history of the Shawnee experience during the two centuries of their struggle to hold onto the land they occupied when the EurAmericans invaded. The author has included names and described Shawnees in action with words that create pictures. The tale of travail of Cornstalk is compelling. The descrlption of the Shawnee's defeat of the American Army under St.clair, which "effectively distroyed the new nation's only army" deservers more text in our history books. The book is concise, brief amd well writtened with a neutral viewpoint, but there is no way to make the plot have a better ending. The Shawnees we see today are the survivors of a genocide that swept away 95% of their ancestors and took most of their land to build a nation almost as worthy a Shawnee nation. Read this book! The book referenced below tells the heroic tale of the Shawnees coming to America. Frozen Trail to Merica: Talerman You will have a better perspective.
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