The Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America - Hardcover

Warren, Stephen

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9781469611730: The Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America

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ISBN 10: 1469611732 ISBN 13: 9781469611730

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014

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Title: The Worlds the Shawnees Made( Migration and Violence in Early America) Binding: Hardcover Author: StephenWarren Publisher: UniversityofNorthCarolinaPress

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In 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British, "We have always been the frontier." Their statement challenges an oft-held belief that American Indians derive their unique identities from longstanding ties to native lands. By tracking Shawnee people and migrations from 1400 to 1754, Stephen Warren illustrates how Shawnees made a life for themselves at the crossroads of empires and competing tribes, embracing mobility and often moving willingly toward violent borderlands. By the middle of the eighteenth century, the Shawnees ranged over the eastern half of North America and used their knowledge to foster notions of pan-Indian identity that shaped relations between Native Americans and settlers in the revolutionary era and beyond.

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Stephen Warren is associate professor of history and American Studies at the University of Iowa and was a historian for the PBS documentary "We Shall Remain," which aired in 2009.

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