George Washington And Native Americans
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Author | : Colin Gordon Calloway |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0190652160 |
The Indian World of George Washington offers a fresh portrait of the most revered American and the Native Americans whose story has been only partially told.
Author | : Richard Harless |
Publisher | : George Mason University |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2019-02-19 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : 9781942695141 |
George Washington had contact with Native Americans throughout most of his life. His first encounter as a teenager left him with the impression that they were nothing more than an "ignorant people." As a young man he fought both alongside and against Native Americans during the French and Indian War and gained a grudging respect for their fighting abilities. During the American Revolution, Washington made it clear that he welcomed Indian allies as friends but would do his utmost to crush Indian enemies. As president, he sought to implement a program to "civilize" Native Americans by teaching them methods of agriculture and providing the implements of husbandry that would enable them to become proficient farmers--the only way, he believed, Native Americans would survive in a white-dominated society. Yet he discovered that his government could not protect Indian lands as guaranteed in countless treaties, and the hunger for Indian land by white settlers was so rapacious that it could not be controlled by an inadequate federal military establishment. While Washington appeared to admit the failure of the program, this book--a unique and necessary exploration of Washington's experience with and thoughts on Native Americans--contends he deserves credit for his continued efforts to implement a policy based on the just treatment of America's indigenous peoples. Distributed for George Mason University Press
Author | : Barbara Alice Mann |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2005-03-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 031305780X |
The Revolutionary War is ordinarily presented as a conflict exclusively between colonists and the British, fought along the northern Atlantic seacoast. This important work recounts the tragic events on the forgotten Western front of the American Revolution—a war fought against and ultimately won by Native America. The Natives, primarily the Iroquois League and the Ohio Union, are erroneously presented in history texts as allies (or lackeys) of the British, but Native America was working from its own internally generated agenda: to prevent settlers from invading the Old Northwest. Native America won the war in the West, holding the land west and north of the Allegheny-Ohio River systems. While the British may have awarded these lands to the colonists in the Treaty of Paris, the Native Americans did not concur. Throughout the war, the unwavering goal of the Revolutionary Army, under George Washington, and their associated settler militias was to break the power of the Iroquois League, which had successfully held off invasion for the preceding two centuries, and the newly formed Ohio Union. To destroy the Natives in the way of land seizure, Washington authorized a series of rampages intended to destroy the League and the Union by starvation. Food, livestock, homes, and trees were destroyed, first in the New York breadbaskets, then in the Ohio granaries—spreading famine across Native lands. Uncounted thousands of Natives perished from New York to Pennsylvania to Ohio. This book tells how, in the wake of the massive assaults, the Natives held back the American onslaught.
Author | : George Washington Parke Custis |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2014-03 |
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ISBN | : 9781497933170 |
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1859 Edition.
Author | : George Washington |
Publisher | : Bnpublishing.Com |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2007-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789562911771 |
Author | : John Marshall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1805 |
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Author | : Stephen Brumwell |
Publisher | : Quercus |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 2013-10-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1623651018 |
Winner of the prestigious George Washington Book Prize, George Washington is a vivid recounting of the formative years and military career of "The Father of his Country," following his journey from brutal border skirmishes with the French and their Native American allies to his remarkable victory over the British Empire, an achievement that underpinned his selection as the first president of the United States of America. The book focuses on a side of Washington that is often overlooked: the feisty young frontier officer and the early career of the tough forty-something commander of the revolutionaries' ragtag Continental Army. Award-winning historian Stephen Brumwell shows how, ironically, Washington's reliance upon English models of "gentlemanly" conduct, and on British military organization, was crucial in establishing his leadership of the fledgling Continental Army, and in forging it into the weapon that secured American independence. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including original archival research, Brumwell brings a fresh new perspective on this extraordinary individual, whose fusion of gentleman and warrior left an indelible imprint on history.
Author | : Colin Gordon Calloway |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199387990 |
"A balanced and readable account of the 1791 battle between St. Clair's US forces and an Indian coalition in the Ohio Valley, one of the most important and under-recognized events of its time"--
Author | : Suzan Shown Harjo |
Publisher | : Smithsonian Institution |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2014-09-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1588344789 |
Nation to Nation explores the promises, diplomacy, and betrayals involved in treaties and treaty making between the United States government and Native Nations. One side sought to own the riches of North America and the other struggled to hold on to traditional homelands and ways of life. The book reveals how the ideas of honor, fair dealings, good faith, rule of law, and peaceful relations between nations have been tested and challenged in historical and modern times. The book consistently demonstrates how and why centuries-old treaties remain living, relevant documents for both Natives and non-Natives in the 21st century.
Author | : Michael A. Genovese |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2021-10-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 303083574X |
This book examines how the United States government, through the lens of presidential leadership, has tried to come to grips with the many and complex issues pertaining to relations with Indigenous peoples, who occupied the land long before the Europeans arrived. The historical relationship between the US government and Native American communities reflects many of the core contradictions and difficulties the new nation faced as it tried to establish itself as a legitimate government and fend off rival European powers, including separation of powers, the role of Westward expansion and Manifest Destiny, and the relationship between diplomacy and war in the making of the United States. The authors’ analysis touches on all US presidents from George Washington to Donald Trump, with sections devoted to each president. Ultimately, they consider what historical and contemporary relations between the government and native peoples reveal about who we are and how we operate as a nation.