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Author Jacobs, Wilbur R.

Title Dispossessing the American Indian : Indians and whites on the colonial frontier / by Wilbur R. Jacobs.

Publication Info. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [1985]
©1972

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  323.1197 J17D    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 221-235.
Note Includes index.
Contents Indian-white contact: background. The white man's frontier in American history: the impact upon the land and the Indian -- Unsavory sidelights on Colonial trade -- Wampum and the protocol of treaty-making -- White gift-giving: French skills in managing the Indians -- Indian-white contact: frontier conflicts. -- British Indian-white relations: Edmond Atkin's scheme for imperial control -- A message to Fort William Henry: Drama of siege and Indian savagery -- Gift-giving and Pontiac's uprising -- Pontiac's war--a conspiracy? -- 1763--year of decision on the Indian frontier -- Indian-white contact: final perspectives.The noble savage theme: attitude and policies toward the Indian in the British colonies -- The price of progress: Native people on the European Frontiers of Australia, New Guinea, and North America.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1750-1770.
Subject Indians, Treatment of -- North America.
Indians of North America -- Government relations -- To 1789.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Government relations -- To 1789.
Subject White people -- Relations with Indians.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples, Treatment of -- North America.
ISBN 0806119357 paperback $9.95
9780806119359 paperback
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