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Chapter 7. Land and Words: William Penn’s Letter to the Kings of the Indians
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Introduction 1
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Part I. Native Power and European Trade
- Chapter 1. Tsenacomoco and the Atlantic World: Stories of Goods and Power 13
- Chapter 2. Brothers, Scoundrels, Metal-Makers: Dutch Constructions of Native American Constructions of the Dutch 42
- Chapter 3. “That Europe Be not Proud, nor America Discouraged”: Native People and the Enduring Politics of Trade 53
- Chapter 4. War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience 69
- Chapter 5. Dutch Dominos: The Fall of New Netherland and the Reshaping of Eastern North America 97
- Chapter 6. Brokers and Politics: Iroquois and New Yorkers 113
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Part II. European Power and Native Land
- Chapter 7. Land and Words: William Penn’s Letter to the Kings of the Indians 135
- Chapter 8. “No Savage Should Inherit”: Native Peoples, Pennsylvanians, and the Origins and Legacies of the Seven Years War 155
- Chapter 9. The Plan of 1764: Native Americans and a British Empire That Never Was 177
- Chapter 10. Onas, the Long Knife: Pennsylvanians and Indians After Independence 202
- Chapter 11. “Believing That Many of the Red People Suffer Much for the Want of Food”: A Quaker View of Indians in the Early U.S. Republic 227
- Notes 251
- Index 307
- Acknowledgments 315
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Introduction 1
-
Part I. Native Power and European Trade
- Chapter 1. Tsenacomoco and the Atlantic World: Stories of Goods and Power 13
- Chapter 2. Brothers, Scoundrels, Metal-Makers: Dutch Constructions of Native American Constructions of the Dutch 42
- Chapter 3. “That Europe Be not Proud, nor America Discouraged”: Native People and the Enduring Politics of Trade 53
- Chapter 4. War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience 69
- Chapter 5. Dutch Dominos: The Fall of New Netherland and the Reshaping of Eastern North America 97
- Chapter 6. Brokers and Politics: Iroquois and New Yorkers 113
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Part II. European Power and Native Land
- Chapter 7. Land and Words: William Penn’s Letter to the Kings of the Indians 135
- Chapter 8. “No Savage Should Inherit”: Native Peoples, Pennsylvanians, and the Origins and Legacies of the Seven Years War 155
- Chapter 9. The Plan of 1764: Native Americans and a British Empire That Never Was 177
- Chapter 10. Onas, the Long Knife: Pennsylvanians and Indians After Independence 202
- Chapter 11. “Believing That Many of the Red People Suffer Much for the Want of Food”: A Quaker View of Indians in the Early U.S. Republic 227
- Notes 251
- Index 307
- Acknowledgments 315