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World turned upside down : Indian voices from early America, a brief history with documents. 2nd Ed / [edited by] Colin G. Calloway, Dartmouth College.

Calloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon), 1953- (editor.).

Summary:

Through a collection of speeches, letters, and primary accounts, this book provides insight into the underrepresented Native American voices of the colonial, Revolutionary, and early national periods. It portrays such themes as loss of land, war and peace, missionaries and Christianity, the education of Native American youth, European technology, European alcohol, and political changes within Indian societies in Early America.

Record details

ISBN: 1319052401
ISBN: 9781319052409
Physical Description: xvii, 220 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Boston, MA : Bedford/St Martin's, Macmillan Learning, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-211) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Machine generated contents note: A World of Changes -- Indians in Colonial America -- Sources of Indian History: Weighing the Evidence -- The Documents -- 1.Voices from the Shore -- The Creation of the World -- 1.John Norton, Iroquois Creation Story, ca. 1816 -- The League of Peace in Wampum -- 2.The Hiawatha Wampum Belt -- The Creeks Come to Their Homeland -- 3.Chekilli, Origin of the Creek Confederacy, 1735 -- A Dream of Strangers -- 4.Josiah Jeremy, The Floating Island, 1869 -- Meeting the Dutch at Manhattan -- 5.John Heckewelder, The Arrival of the Dutch, ca. 1765 -- "What Can You Get by Warre...?" -- 6.Powhatan, Speech to Captain John Smith, 1609 -- A Pequot Looks Back at King Philip's War -- 7.William Apess, Eulogy on King Philip, 1836 -- 2.Cultural Conflicts, Contests, and Confluences -- A Native American Theological Debate -- 8.John Eliot, A Dialogue between Piumbukhou and His Unconverted Relatives, ca. 1671 -- A Mi'kmaq Questions French "Civilization"

Note continued: 9.Chrestien LeClerq, A Mi'kmaq Responds to the French, ca. 1677 -- An Indian Woman Bequeaths Her Property -- 10.Naomai Omaush, Will, 1749 -- Autobiography of an Indian Minister -- 11.Samson Occom, A Short Narrative of My Life, 1768 -- Letters of a Narragansett Family -- 12.Sarah Simon, Letter to Eleazar Wheelock, 1767 -- 13.Sarah Simon (the Daughter), Letter to Eleazar Wheelock, 1769 -- 14.Daniel Simon, Letter to Eleazar Wheelock, 1771 -- The Iroquois Reject Wheelock's "Benevolence" -- 15.Speech of the Oneida Headmen, 1772 -- 16.Speech of the Onondaga Council, 1772 -- A Delaware "Mouthpiece" -- 17.Joseph Pepee, Response to the Unconverted Delawares, 1772 -- "The White Woman of the Genesee" -- 18.Mary Jemison, A Narrative of Her Life, 1824 -- 3.Land, Trade, and Treaties -- Submission to "Old England" -- 19.Narragansett Indians, Act of Submission, 1644 -- Two Land Deeds from Maine -- 20.Nanuddemance, Deed to John Parker, June 14, 1659

Note continued: 21.Jane of Scarborough, Deed to Andrew and Arthur Alger, September 19, 1659 -- Indian Land Claims Disputed -- 22.Mittark, Agreement of Gay Head Indians Not to Sell Land to the English, 1681 -- The "River Indians" Answer Governor Burnet -- 23.Mahican Indians, Reply to William Burnet, Governor of New York, 1722 -- The Alienation of the Natchez -- 24.Antoine Le Page du Pratz, Reply of the Stung Serpent, 1723 -- Signing and Disputing a Treaty -- 25.Eastern Indians, Treaty Pictographs, 1725 -- 26.Sauguaarum, alias Loron, An Account of Negotiations Leading to the Casco Bay Treaty, 1727 -- The "Walking Purchase": A Delaware Complaint and an Iroquois Response -- 27.Delaware Indians, Complaint against the "Walking Purchase," November 21, 1740 -- 28.Canasatego, Response to the Delawares' Complaint, July 12, 1742 -- The Treaty of Lancaster -- 29.Canasatego, Speech at the Treaty of Lancaster, July 4, 1744 -- A Guardian System for Indian Lands

Note continued: 30.Indians at Mashpee, Petition to the Massachusetts General Court, June 11, 1752 -- Resolving Conflicts with Colonial Neighbors -- 31.King Hagler (Nopkehe), Reply to Colonists' Complaints, 1754 -- Colonists Encroach on the Stanwix Line -- 32.John Killbuck, Speech to the Governors of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, December 4, 1771 -- 4.In a World of Warfare: Indians and the Wars for Empire -- La Barre's Failed Bluff -- 33.Garangula, Speech to New France Governor La Barre, 1684 -- A Native War Record -- 34.Drawings Made on a Tree by an Iroquois War Party, ca. 1666 -- Iroquois Loyalty Turns to Disenchantment -- 35.Cheda, Promise to Uphold the Covenant Chain, 1692 -- Intertribal Conflict Fostered by Colonists -- 36.Gachadow, Speech to the Virginia Commissioners at the Treaty of Lancaster, 1744 -- The Half King Defies the French -- 37.Tanaghrisson, Speech to Sieur de Marin, 1753 -- Allies and Enemies in Indian Country

Note continued: 38.English and French Copies of Chickasaw Deerskin Maps, ca. 1723 and 1737 -- The Chickasaws Appeal for Help -- 39.Chickasaw Headmen, Speech to the Governor of South Carolina, April 5, 1756 -- French and Indian Wars, or French and English Wars? -- 40.Delaware Indians, Response to the Moravian Ambassador, 1758 -- A New Era for Algonquians and Englishmen -- 41.Minavavana, Speech to Alexander Henry, 1761 -- Pontiac's War -- 42.Pontiac, The Master of Life Speaks to the Wolf, 1763 -- The Pleas and Plight of the Choctaw Chiefs -- 43.Choctaw Chiefs, Speeches to John Stuart, Mobile, Alabama, 1772 -- 5.American Indians and the American Revolution, 1775-1783 -- The Oneidas Declare Neutrality -- 44.Oneida Indians, Speech to Governor Trumbull, 1775 -- Joseph Brant Addresses His Majesty's Secretary of State -- 45.Joseph Brant, Address to Lord Germain, 1776 -- Struggling to Be Neutral in the Ohio Valley -- 46.Cornstalk, Message to Congress, November 7, 1776

Note continued: Cherokees Fight for Their Survival -- 47.Corn Tassel, Speech at Treaty Talks with Virginia and North Carolina, 1777 -- The Revolution through the Eyes of a Seneca Woman -- 48.Mary Jemison, A View of the Revolution, 1775-1779 -- The Revolution through Captain Pipe's Eyes -- 49.Captain Pipe, Speech to British Colonel DePeyster, November 1781 -- Adjusting to New Realities: The Chickasaws' Revolution -- 50.Chickasaw Chiefs, Message to Congress, July 1783 -- Brant Demands the Truth -- 51.Joseph Brant, Message to Governor Frederick Haldimand, 1783 -- 6.Indian Voices from the New Nation -- Alexander McGillivray Rejects American Pretensions -- 52.Alexander McGillivray, Letter to Governor Arturo O'Neill, July 10, 1785 -- The United Indian Nations Announce a New Policy -- 53.United Indian Nations, Speech at the Confederate Council, November 28 and December 18, 1786 -- The World Turned Upside Down

Note continued: 54.Henry Quaquaquid and Robert Ashpo, Petition to the Connecticut State Assembly, May 1789 -- Joseph Brant Weighs Indian and White Civilizations -- 55.Joseph Brant, Indian vs. White Civilization, 1789 -- First Americans Address the First President -- 56.Speech of Cornplanter, Half Town, and Big Tree to George Washington, 1790 -- A Chronology of Encounters between Indians and Colonists, 1492-1795 -- Questions for Consideration.