Gathering Together: The Shawnee People through Diaspora and Nationhood, 1600-1870
Gathering Together: The Shawnee People through Diaspora and Nationhood, 1600-1870
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Abstract
This book traces the history of Shawnee nation-building and diaspora through the era of European colonialism and state-making in North America. Focusing on Native American politics, it argues that the Shawnee people created two competing strategies for coping with the colonial invasion. In the late seventeenth century the shockwaves of the European intrusion scattered the Shawnees from their Ohio Valley homelands across eastern North America. This diaspora taught many Shawnees to rely on mobility and flexible community fissions to survive in the colonial world. Others, however, came to see dispersal as dangerous and began to seek security from broader national cooperation. They built institutions of collective decision-making and developed a notion of a shared Shawnee country where the entire nation could gather together. The book reveals that these strategies were based on two competing and continually evolving visions of society, peoplehood, and space. Neither vision was more or less “traditional” than the other. Both stemmed from cultural ideas, social structures, and political philosophies that were unquestionably old; yet the Shawnees constantly reworked these roots creatively in new settings. This book, then, encourages historians to pay serious attention to dynamic political thinking and debates in Native American societies and to explore how such thinking and debates shaped the interactions between Indians and Euroamericans. It argues that understanding Native American political ideologies and strategies as creative and powerful forces is essential for understanding American history.
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Front Matter
- Introduction: “Our Straggling Nation”
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“The Greatest Travellers In America”: The Shawnee Diaspora, 1600–1725
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“The Sheynars In General”: Unity and Diversity on Imperial Borderlands, 1725–1755
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“The Chief Of All The Tribes”: Nation and Empire, 1755–1775
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“A Struggle With Death”: The Twenty Years’ War, 1775–1795
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“Become an Independent People”: Rebuilding the Nation, 1795–1833
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“Dispersed Like Turkeys”: The Odyssey of the Western Shawnees, 1782–1840
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“Reunion”: Sovereignty and Centralization, 1833–1870
- Conclusion: A Living Nation
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End Matter
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