Indian Wars' and the Struggle for Eastern North America, 17631842 by Robert M. Owens -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures Chronology Who's Who Glossary Map Part I Analysis and Assessment

Introduction: Clashing Cultures

Competition and Conquest: How Europeans Saw America For the Love of God Gender and Colonization To be “Civilized” Forming an Imperfect Union The Tyranny of Terminology

1 Britain's Tenuous Empire

The European Contest for North America Penny-wise and Pound-foolish: Pontiac's War Efforts in Diplomacy Bleeding Pennsylvania War's End? Murder and Real Estate: Lord Dunmore's War

2 Revolting Americans

Many Problems and Few Solutions Factionalism among the Cherokees The British-Indian Alliance Stumbles in the North Southern Discomfort Violence Surges in the West

3 Confederations

Patriotic Paternalism Creeks, Cherokees, and Southerners Elusive Peace on the Frontier

4 Dueling Unions

Harmar's Campaign The St. Clair Disaster Wayne Takes Command The Treaty of Greenville Bowles Bows Out

5 Jeffersonians and Indians

Jefferson's Indian Land Policy Tecumseh: The Greatest Pan-Indianist A Civil War Among the Creeks Americans Take Aim at Canada Red Sticks and Old Hickory

6 Indian Wars in the Age of Jackson

The Question of Florida The First Seminole War The Black Hawk War The Second Seminole War

Conclusion: Making Sense of History

Indian Wars in Memory “Heroes” Need “Villains” Professors and Producers

Part II Documents

1 George Croghan at Fort Pitt to Sir William Johnson, 31 March 1762 2 Sir William Johnson at Johnson Hall, 18 March 1763, to Gen. Jeffery Amherst 3 Speech of Pontiac, 27 April 1763 4 Proclamation of Gov. Josiah Martin, North Carolina, 18 May 1774 5 Virginia Gazette, 17 August 1776 6 Virginia Gazette, 14 September 1776 7 Virginia Gazette, 30 May 1777 8 Extract of a letter from Silver Bluff, 28 October 1779 9 The Royal South Carolina Gazette, 9 May 1782 10 Alexander McGillivray at Little Tallassee, 15 September 1788, to Richard Winn, Andrew Pickens, and George Mathews, Commissioners for treating with the Southern Nations of Indians 11 Richard Winn, Andrew Pickens, George Mathews, to Alexander McGillivray, Esq. and the head men and warriors of the Creek nation. Hopewell on Keowee, 28 November 1788 12 Kentucky Gazette, 12 April 1788 13 General Joseph Martin, Agent to Cherokees, to Sec. War Knox, 2 February 1789 14 “For the Indian Department,” Boston Gazette, 2 January 1792 15 Sec. of War Knox to Gov. William Blount, Southwest Territory, 31 January 1792 16 Hanging Maw's Talk, Kentucky Gazette, 17 November 1792 17 Memorial from the Widow of a Cherokee Chief, submitted to Congress, 17 January 1797 18 Piomingo in the Chickasaw Nation to General James Robertson, 17 June 1793 19 Kentucky Gazette, 1 September 1800, story from Savannah, Georgia 20 Pres. Jefferson to Gov. Harrison, 27 February 1803 21 Tecumseh's speech to Gov. Harrison, 20 August 1810 22 Lydia Bacon's journal, 30 November 1811 23 Indian Removal Act of 1830 24 Baltimore Patriot, 21 July 1831, “The Indian Disturbances” 25 Pittsfield Sun (MA), 4 August 1831, from the St. Louis Beacon 26 New Hampshire Sentinel, 11 February 1836, “A second Tecumseh” 27 The Floridian, 21 May 1836

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