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Cargando... The Borderland of Fear: Vincennes, Prophetstown, and the Invasion of the Miami Homeland (Borderlands and Transcultural Studies)por Patrick Bottiger
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Although the author almost lost me with the comment about Anthony Wayne's Legion of the United States being "full of veterans from the Revolutionary War," which was certainly not the case, I wound up continuing on because Bottiger does have an interesting story to tell in regards to politics on the frontier of the Old Northwest. To cut to the chase, most of the tales of Prophetstown, and the alleged menacing agenda of its Shawnee core, were misunderstandings at best, and out and out lies at worst. The Miami tribal leadership feared The Prophet and Tecumseh would undermine their territorial authority, and their trade connections, so they and their French-American allies had no reason to be supportive. From there, Henry Harrison picked up the thread, as his authoritarian leadership, and espousal of chattel slavery, caused much of the settler community to recoil from his leadership and agenda. All this misperception and dysinformation wound up being the foundation of Harrison's Tippecanoe campaign, which left the Miami people as the short and medium term winners on the ground. Despite Bottiger's somewhat labored writing style, this is a useful examination of frontier cultural politics, and a good contribution to the building of a general understanding of the diplomacy of the First Nations vis-à-vis the early American republic. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"The Ohio River Valley was a place of violence in the nineteenth century, something witnessed on multiple stages ranging from local conflicts between indigenous and Euro-American communities to the Battle of Tippecanoe and the War of 1812. To describe these events as simply the result of American expansion versus indigenous nativism disregards the complexities of the people and their motivations. Patrick Bottiger explores the diversity between and among the communities that were the source of this violence. As new settlers invaded their land, the Shawnee brothers Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh pushed for a unified Indigenous front. However, the multiethnic Miamis, Kickapoos, Potawatomis, and Delawares, who also lived in the region, favored local interests over a single tribal entity. The Miami-French trade and political network was extensive, and the Miamis staunchly defended their hegemony in the region from challenges by other Native groups. Additionally, William Henry Harrison, governor of the Indiana Territory, lobbied for the introduction of slavery in the territory. In its own turn, this move sparked heated arguments in newspapers and on the street. Harrisonians deflected criticism by blaming tensions on indigenous groups and then claiming that antislavery settlers were Indian allies. Bottiger demonstrates that violence, rather than being imposed on the region's inhabitants by outside forces, instead stemmed from the factionalism that was already present. The Borderland of fear explores how these conflicts were not between nations and races but rather between cultures and factions."--Dust jacket. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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