The People of the Standing Stone: The Oneida Nation from the Revolution Through the Era of Removal - Couverture souple

Tiro, Karim M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1558498907 ISBN 13 : 9781558498907

Editeur : University of Massachusetts Press, 2011

Synopsis

Between 1765 and 1845, the Oneida Indian Nation weathered a trio of traumas: war, dispossession, and division. During the American War of Independence, the Oneidas became the revolutionaries' most important Indian allies. They undertook a difficult balancing act, helping the patriots while trying to avoid harming their Iroquois brethren. Despite the Oneidas' wartime service, they were dispossessed of nearly all their lands through treaties with the state of New York. In eighty years the Oneidas had gone from being an autonomous, powerful people in their ancestral homeland to being residents of disparate, politically exclusive reservation communities separated by up to nine hundred miles and completely surrounded by non-Indians.

The Oneidas' physical, political, and emotional division persists to this day. Even for those who stayed put, their world changed more in cultural, ecological, and demographic terms than at any time before or since. Oneidas of the post-Revolutionary decades were reluctant pioneers, undertaking more of the adaptations to colonized life than any other generation. Amid such wrenching change, maintaining continuity was itself a creative challenge. The story of that extraordinary endurance lies at the heart of this book.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Karim M. Tiro is associate professor of history at Xavier University in Cincinnati. He is coeditor of Along the Hudson and Mohawk: The 1790 Journey of Count Paolo Andreani.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Massachusetts Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1558498907
• ISBN 13: 9781558498907
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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