The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent

Kathleen DuVal

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2006

The Native Ground

Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent

Kathleen DuVal

In the series Early American Studies

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201826

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About this book

"Moving beyond an 'Indians and Europeans' story, DuVal looks instead at competing and overlapping stories involving multiple Native groups who operate from different positions with different strategies and experiences, and incorporate an array of outsiders."—Colin G. Calloway, Dartmouth College

Author / Editor information

Kathleen DuVal teaches history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Reviews

"With keen insight and broad vision, Kathleen DuVal has produced an ambitious study of a neglected region in early American history, but the significance of her analysis transcends the Arkansas Valley and will influence scholars working in other areas of American Indian and colonial American history. She traces all of the connections with other regions and draws comparisons where appropriate, from the Northeast to Mexico, and makes Indian-to-Indian relations central to the story."—Daniel Usner, Vanderbilt University

"The best history yet of the Arkansas River valley and its peoples."—Journal of American History

"Learned, engaging, and often provocative. . . . Informed by the most current work on Native American history, DuVal's work joins the best of it as a piece of prose, as an informative new history, as an excursion into historical method, and as an example of a historian's commitment to recover 'the Native Ground.'"—William and Mary Quarterly

"Whether scholars are interested in the Arkansas Valley or not, all specialists in early American and Native American history should read this book because of what it has to say about the 'Native Ground' in general."—American Historical Review

"Kathleen DuVal's The Native Ground shows how powerfully a change in perspective can alter our perception of history. Her focus on the shifting human relationships in the Arkansas River Valley will require readers to shift their geographic outlook from European outposts on North America's coasts to 'the heart of the continent.'"—Common-Place

"Moving beyond an 'Indians and Europeans' story, Kathleen DuVal looks instead at competing and overlapping stories involving multiple Native groups (Quapaws, Osages, and eventually Cherokees) who operate from different positions with different strategies and experiences, and incorporate an array of outsiders (Spanish, French, British, and eventually Americans). This is the kind of study we need more of."—Colin G. Calloway, Dartmouth College

"Groundbreaking. . . . A work of immense significance."—Journal of the Early Republic

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. A Bordered Land, to 1540 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Chapter 2. Hosting Strangers, 1541–1650 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Chapter 3. Negotiators of a New Land, 1650–1740 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Chapter 4. An Empire in the West, 1700–1777 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Chapter 5. New Alliances, 1765–1800 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
Chapter 6. Better at Making Peace Than War, 1790–1808 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
Chapter 7. A New Order, 1808–1822 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
Chapter 8. The End of the Native Ground? 1815–1828 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 336
Illustrations
- Other: 20 illus.
Keywords: American History; Native American Studies; American Studies

eBook

Published: June 3, 2011
ISBN: 9780812201826