A spirited resistance : the North American Indian struggle for unity, 1745-1815 /
In the early 1800s, when once-powerful North American Indian peoples were being driven west across the Mississippi, a Shawnee prophet collapsed into a deep sleep. When he awoke, he told friends and family of his ascension to Indian heaven, where his grandfather had given him a warning: "Beware...
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Baltimore, Md. :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[1992]
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| Series: | Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ;
109th ser., 4. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Power
- The Indians' Great Awakening, 1745-1775
- Revolutionary alliances, 1775-1783
- Neutrality, a world too narrow, 1775-1781
- A spirit of unity, 1783-1794
- Republican interlude
- Renewing sacred power in the north
- Conflict in the south
- Renewing sacred power in the south
- A conflict of memory
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index.