Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees (American Indian Lives) - Hardcover

Sugden, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803242883 ISBN 13: 9780803242883

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 2000

Synopsis

Blue Jacket (ca. 1743–ca. 1808), or Waweyapiersenwaw, was the galvanizing force behind an intertribal confederacy of unparalleled scope that fought a long and bloody war against white encroachments into the Shawnees’ homeland in the Ohio River Valley. Blue Jacket was an astute strategist and diplomat who, though courted by American and British leaders, remained a staunch defender of the Shawnees’ independence and territory. In this arresting and controversial account, John Sugden depicts the most influential Native American leader of his time.

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About the Author:

John Sugden is an independent scholar and a former associate editor of Oxford University Press’s American National Biography project. His books include Tecumseh: A Life, winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award.

From Booklist:

Sugden corrects the cultural arrogance that has mistakenly portrayed Blue Jacket, a Shawnee warrior and diplomat, as a white captive, thereby recasting his role in the confederation of Indian tribes that fought in 1780s to hold on to territory in what is now the Ohio River valley. From historical manuscripts and genealogies, Sugden pieced together the first biography of Blue Jacket, whose strategies were attributed to the legendary Tecumseh. Sugden recounts the Indian struggle to hold on to territory as the British and French pushed their trade westward and the Americans resisted further British expansion. The Shawnee and Blue Jacket were courted by both the British and the Americans but remained steadfast in their defense of Indian territory. Blue Jacket (whose first wife was a white woman and second wife was part French and part Shawnee) was well suited to bridge the various cultures at conflict over territory. Sugden details the bloody battles and complicated territory negotiations with whites as the Indian tribes struggled to maintain unity and hold onto their land. Vanessa Bush
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About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0803242883
• ISBN 13: 9780803242883
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 362