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Title Covered with night : a story of murder and indigenous justice in early America / Nicole Eustace.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2021]
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Edition First edition.
Description xiv, 447 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-427) and index.
Contents Tomorrow's doom : July 30-August 1, 1722 -- Taquatarensaly (captain civility) -- When things go ill : February 1722 -- Sawantaeny -- Sorrow will come fast : March 6, 1722 -- John Catlidge -- What content and decency require : March 7-14, 1722 -- Peter Bezaillion -- Two heads are better than one : March 15-17, 1722 -- Weenepeeweytah and Elizabeth Cartlidge -- Forgive anyone sooner than thyself : March 21-26, 1722 -- Isaac Norris -- He will go to law : April 4-7, 1722 -- Satcheechoe -- Stark naught : May 4-11, 1722 -- William Keith -- Take him now : June 15-July 2, 1722 -- Ousewayteichks (Smith the Ganawese) -- Money and good men : August 3-15, 1722 -- James Le Tort -- A word to the wise : August-September 1722 -- James Logan -- Stiff obstinacy : October 3-5, 1722 -- Civility's last word.
Summary "An immersive tale of the killing of a Native American man and its far-reaching consequences for Colonial America. In the summer of 1722, on the eve of a conference between the Five Nations of the Iroquois and British-American colonists, two colonial fur traders brutally attacked an Indigenous hunter in colonial Pennsylvania. The crime set the entire mid-Atlantic on edge, with many believing that war was imminent. Frantic efforts to resolve the case created a contest between Native American forms of justice, centered on community, forgiveness, and reparations, and an ideology of harsh reprisal, based on British law, that called for the killers' execution. In a stunning narrative history based on painstaking original research, acclaimed historian Nicole Eustace reconstructs the crime and its aftermath, taking us into the worlds of Euro-Americans and Indigenous peoples in this formative period. A feat of reclamation evoking Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's A Midwife's Tale and Alan Taylor's William Cooper's Town, Eustace's utterly absorbing account provides a new understanding of Indigenous forms of justice, with lessons for our era"--Provided by publisher.
Awards Pulitzer Prize, History, 2022
Subject Murder -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Homicide investigation -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
HISTORY / Indigenous People of the Americas.
HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century.
HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Criminal justice, Administration of. (OCoLC)fst00883246
Homicide investigation. (OCoLC)fst00959684
Murder. (OCoLC)fst01029781
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Administration of criminal justice -- United States.
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form True crime stories.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
True crime stories. (OCoLC)fst01919985
True crime stories.
Added Title Story of murder and indigenous justice in early America
ISBN 9781631495878 hardcover
1631495879 hardcover
9781324092162 paperback
1324092165 paperback
9781631495885 electronic publication
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