This eloquent, pathbreaking account follows the Catawbas from their first contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century until they carved out a place in the American republic three centuries later.
An award-winning historian's beautifully written reconstruction of how Europeans lived in peace and war with Indians on America's colonial frontier.They've been with us since the mythic past, when Her
"This stunning history of the Catawbas and their black and white neighbors sets a new standard for the field. Merrell's book bristles with new insights and skilled decoding of difficult evidence. Afte
The Lancaster Treaty of 1744 offers students a close look at colonial-Indian relations in North America. The treaty minutes offer some of the best historical evidence of Iroquois perspectives on colon
Newly expanded, the second edition of American Encounters provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date collection of scholarship on the Native American experience from European contact through the Remo
Newly expanded, the second edition of American Encounters provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date collection of scholarship on the Native American experience from European contact through the Remo
This volume brings together an impressive collection of important works covering nearly every aspect of early Native American history, from contact and exchange to diplomacy, religion, warfare, and di
For centuries the Western view of the Iroquois was clouded by the myth that they were the supermen of the frontier—"the Romans of this Western World," as De Witt Clinton called them
Brief and affordable, yet careful not to sacrifice elements vital to student learning, "America "gives students and instructors everything they want -- and nothing they don't. The authors' own abridge
