Echoes from the Eastern Shore: Twelve Native American Chiefs and the Fight for the Atlantic Homelands - Couverture rigide

McLendon, Ward

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1971207152 ISBN 13 : 9781971207155

Editeur : Unbound Press, 2026

Synopsis

For Native nations, colonial first contact was not a single moment. It was a slow-moving catastrophe.

Long before American independence, Native nations along the eastern seaboard were already confronting an expanding colonial world that threatened their sovereignty, alliances, and survival.

Echoes from the Eastern Shore tells the stories of twelve Indigenous chiefs whose leadership shaped the earliest power struggles of what would become the United States. These were not passive witnesses to history. They were diplomats navigating fragile alliances, war leaders confronting invasion, strategists balancing intertribal rivalries, and spiritual authorities holding communities together in times of relentless upheaval.

From first encounters and treaty councils to resistance movements and shifting confederacies, their lives reveal how Indigenous nations actively shaped the political landscape of early America — even as that landscape was being transformed around them.

Drawing on historical records and Indigenous perspectives, this book challenges familiar frontier myths and restores agency, intelligence, and political complexity to Native leadership during the colonial era. The story of America did not begin with independence — it began with negotiation, conflict, adaptation, and loss.

Perfect for readers of Native American history, colonial America, early diplomacy, and narrative nonfiction in the tradition of David Grann and Nathaniel Philbrick.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Unbound Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1971207152
• ISBN 13: 9781971207155
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 268
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