Historic Contact: Indian People And Colonists In Today'S Northeastern United States In The Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries
University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN13:
9780806169095
$44.76
Anthropologist and preservationist Robert S. Grumet has created this up-to-date, well-written overview of historic contact with Native Americans on the colonial frontier from a vast array of documentary, archaeological, and ethnographic data never assembled before. This is a definitive history of early Indian-white relations in an area extending from Virginia to Maine and from the Atlantic coast to the upper Ohio River. It will be read by specialists and Indian-studies buffs alike. Historic Contact divides native northeastern America into three subregions where the histories of thirty-four Indian Countries are described and mapped in detail, including all National Historic Landmarks. In the North Atlantic Region are the Eastern and Western Abenaki, Pocumtuck-Squakheag, Nipmuck, Pennacook-Pawtucket, Massachusett, Wampanoag, Narragansett, Mohegan-Pequot, Montauk, Lower Connecticut Valley, and Mahican Indian Countries; in the Middle Atlantic Region, the Munsee, Delaware, Nanticoke, Piscataway-Potomac, Powhatan, Nottoway-Meherrin, Upper Potomac-Shenandoah, Virginian Piedmont, Southern Appalachian Highlands, and lower Susquehanna Indian Countries; and in the Trans-Appalachian Region, the Mohawl, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca, Niagara-Erie, Upper Susquehanna, and Upper Ohio Indian Countries. Readers interested in Indian history and colonial America will value this basic reference, which originated as a National Historic landmarks Survey Theme Study. Federal agencies, state and local preservation officers, and Indian communities will use it as an excellent planning tool in making evaluations protection decisions.
- | Author: Robert S. Grumet
- | Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
- | Publication Date: June 29, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 548 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0806169095
- | ISBN-13: 9780806169095
- Author:
- Robert S. Grumet
- Publisher:
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Publication Date:
- June 29, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 548 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0806169095
- ISBN-13:
- 9780806169095