The Shawnees and the War for America

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Penguin, 2007 - History - 216 pages
Long before the American Revolution, the Shawnees lived in Ohio, hunted in Kentucky, and traveled as far afield as Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Missouri. White settlers, however, sharply curtailed their freedom. With the courage and resilience embodied by their legendary leader Tecumseh, the Shawnee tribe waged a war of territorial and cultural resistance that lasted for more than sixty years. For a time the Shawnees and their allies met American forces on nearly equal terms—but their story is of an embattled nation fighting to maintain its cultural and political independence.

Here is the account of the early American settlers’ drive to occupy the West, the Shawnees’ unwavering defense of their homeland, and the bitter battles that resulted. Here too are the alliances that the Shawnees forged with their Indian neighbors to present a united resistance, as well as instances of cooperation, collaboration, and intermarriage between the opposing forces.
 

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TAKING ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE
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REMOVALS AND SURVIVALS
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AFTERWORD
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Colin G. Calloway is a professor of history and Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. He is the author of The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America; One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark; and The American Revolution in Indian Country. He is the series editor of The Penguin Library of American Indian History.

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