Masters of the middle waters : Indian nations and colonial ambitions along the Mississippi / Jacob F. Lee.
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- Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley -- Politics and government
- Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley -- History
- Indians of North America -- Kinship -- Mississippi River Valley
- Illinois Indians -- History
- Illinois Indians -- Politics and government
- Indians, Treatment of -- Mississippi River Valley
- Mississippi River Valley -- History
- Europe -- Colonies -- America -- History
- E78.M75 L44 2019
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E78.G73H34 1976 The Plains Indians | E78.G73M37 1975 Plains Indian mythology | E78.K3H3 The Hardin Village site | E78.M75L44 2019 Masters of the middle waters : Indian nations and colonial ambitions along the Mississippi / | E78.M8S62 Prehistoric patterns of human behavior : a case study in the Mississippi Valley | E78.N5L57 2015 The Saltwater frontier : Indians and the contest for the American coast | E78.N5O35 2010 Firsting and lasting : writing Indians out of existence in New England |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-327) and index.
Introduction: Cities of the living, cities of the dead -- In Cahokia's wake -- Conversions -- Alliances and fractures -- A new world? -- An empire of kin -- Conquest -- Conclusion: The deep history of the midcontinent.
From the fall of Cahokia in the early fourteenth century to the ascendancy of the young United States in the early nineteenth century, Jacob Lee reinterprets the history of early North America by tracing the key role major midcontinental rivers and social networks played in linking Indian nations and European empires in a long, shared history of conquest and resistance. Long before Europeans set foot on the shores of North America, Siouan peoples from the Great Plains, Algonquians from the Great Lakes, and Muskhogeans from the South traded with and fought each other in the heart of the midcontinent. Starting in the early 1600s, the Illinois became the dominant power in the region, constructing a network of allies that stretched from Lake Superior to Arkansas. They were at the height of their power in 1673 when the first French explorers, Jolliet and Marquette, appeared in the region. Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, the major empires in North American history--France, Britain, Spain, and the US--claimed part or all of the region. When Americans came on the scene and began to remake the midcontinent, they overturned the patterns of 150 years of interaction between Indians and Europeans.-- Provided by publisher
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