George Washington's War on Native America

Name: George Washington's War on Native America
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ISBN: 9780275981778

ISBN-10: 0275981770

ISBN-13: 9780275981778

Edition: 2005

Authors: Barbara Alice Mann

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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.…

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List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 3/30/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 316
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.364

Barbara Alice Mann is a lecturer in the English department at the University of Toledo and the author ofGeorge Washington’s War on Native America. nbsp; Winona LaDuke is a Native American activist and the author ofRecovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming.



Series foreword



Introduction : "niggur-in-law to old sattan" : how the west was really won



"The vile hands of the savages" : countdown to total war, 1775-1778



"Shooting pigeons" : the Goose Van Schaick sweep through Onondaga, April 1779



"The wolves of the forest" : the Brodhead march up the Allegheny, August-September 1779



"Extirpate those hell-hounds from off the face of the earth" : the Sullivan-Clinton campaign, 9 August-30 September 1779



"Keep that nest of hornets quiet" : the Ohio campaigns of 1779-1781



"Two mighty gods with their mouth wide open" : settler assaults on Ohio, 1782