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Author Richter, Daniel K.

Title Facing east from Indian country : a Native history of early America / Daniel K. Richter.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  970.004 RICHTER    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  970.004 R418    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  970.0049 RICHTER    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  970.0049 RIC    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  970 RICHTER    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  970.004 RICHTER    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  970.00497 RIC    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  970.1 R41    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  970.00497 RICHTER    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  970.00497 RIC    Check Shelf

Description x, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Imagining a distant new world -- Confronting a material new world -- Living with Europeans -- Native voices in a colonial world -- Native peoples in an imperial world -- Separate creations.
Summary "In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers." "Or so the story usually goes. Yet, for three centuries after Columbus, Native people controlled most of eastern North America and profoundly shaped its destiny. In Facing East from Indian Country, Daniel K. Richter keeps Native people center-stage throughout the story of the origins of the United States." "Viewed from Indian country, the sixteenth century was an era in which Native people discovered Europeans and struggled to make sense of a new world. Well into the seventeenth century, the most profound challenges to Indian life came less from the arrival of a relative handful of European colonists than from the biological, economic, and environmental forces the newcomers unleashed. Drawing upon their own traditions, Indian communities reinvented themselves and carved out a place in a world dominated by transatlantic European empires. In 1776, however, when some of Britain's colonists rebelled against that imperial world, they overturned the system that had made Euro-American and Native coexistence possible. Eastern North America ceased to be Indian country only because the revolutionaries denied the continent's first peoples a place in the nation they were creating." "In rediscovering early America as Indian country, Richter employs the historian's craft to challenge cherished assumptions about times and places we thought we knew well, revealing Native American experiences at the core of the nation's birth and identity."--Jacket.
Subject Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
Chronological Term To 1775
Subject Indians, Treatment of -- United States -- History.
Native Americans -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Nordamerika (DE-588)4042483-2
Indians of North America -- Colonial period. (OCoLC)fst01907009
Politik (DE-588)4046514-7
Kulturkontakt (DE-588)4033569-0
Europa (DE-588)4015701-5
Indianer (DE-588)4026718-0
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Subject Discoveries in geography. (OCoLC)fst00894950
Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans. (OCoLC)fst00969743
United States -- Discovery and exploration.
United States -- Politics and government -- To 1775.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- First contact with Europeans.
Subject United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Indians of North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Indians, Treatment of. (OCoLC)fst00970120
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject Native Americans -- First contact with Europeans.
Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples, Treatment of -- United States -- History.
ISBN 0674006380 (alk. paper)
9780674006386 (alk. paper)
0674011171 (pbk.)
9780674011175 (pbk.)
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