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Shawnee Origins of Their Seven Years' War
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (4): 657–687.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Ian Steele The Ohio Shawnee reversed the trend of their diplomacy in going to war with the British colonies in 1754. This move has been misunderstood as general resentment against settler encroachment and/or an opportunistic acceptance of French incentives. The clear trigger was the imprisonment...
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Gathering Together: The Shawnee People through Diaspora and Nationhood, 1600–1870
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 187–188.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Sheri Shuck-Hall Book Reviews 187
Gathering Together: The Shawnee People through Diaspora and Nation-
hood, 1600–1870. By Sami Lakomäki. (New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press, 2014. vii + 334 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, bibliography...
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“We Then Went to England”: Shawnee Storytelling and the Atlantic World
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (4): 595–619.
Published: 01 October 2016
...Sami Lakomäki Abstract Between 1795 and 1808 several Shawnee orators recounted to British and US officials a story about a Shawnee voyage to England. These narratives push scholars to reconsider the Atlantic world paradigm from an Indigenous perspective. They reveal Native constructions of space...
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The Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (1): 175–177.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Andrew Cayton The Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America . By Warren Stephen . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2014 . xii + 308 pp., acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index . $39.95 cloth.) Copyright 2015 by American Society...
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Salvaging the Salvage Anthropologists: Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin, Carl Voegelin, and the Future of Ethnohistory
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (2): 189–214.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Stephen Warren; Ben Barnes Abstract How should Native and non-Native scholars utilize the work of salvage anthropologists? In this study of Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin, Carl Voegelin, and their research among the Shawnee, Stephen Warren and Ben Barnes suggest that Community-Engaged Scholarship (CES...
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Strange and Disturbing News: Rumor and Diplomacy in the Colonial Hudson Valley
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (1): 91–112.
Published: 01 January 2011
... and their neighbors were not as far
removed from this conflict as distance alone might suggest. Even small
Indian groups might have far-flung contacts, and these natives had a link
to the south via the Shawnees, a people who had only recently settled on
the upper Delaware and in parts...
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Compositional Stasis and Flexibility in American Indian Tribes
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 191–213.
Published: 01 April 2021
...—moved tribes away from flexible to more static arrangements. The third section builds on the example of the Delaware Tribe of Indians to examine the Shawnee Tribe’s successful separation from the Cherokee Nation. This section also explores the Citizen Potawatomi and Mohawk Nations’ inability to divide...
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Becoming Brothertown: Native American Ethnogenesis in the Modern World
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (1): 174–175.
Published: 01 January 2015
... the
contemporary circumstances concerning indigenous sovereignty around the
world, this is a very welcome discussion.
DOI 10.1215/00141801-2821735
The Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America.
By Stephen Warren. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
xii + 308...
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Making Marriage: Husbands, Wives, and the American State in Dakota and Ojibwe Country
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (1): 177–179.
Published: 01 January 2015
....) Copyright 2015 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2015 Book Reviews 177
sented by colonization” (19). Shawnees “managed to convert travel away
from their homeland into one of their principal strengths. By the eighteenth
century, Shawnee had become...
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Setting All the Captives Free: Capture, Adjustment, and Recollection in Allegheny Country
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (3): 579–580.
Published: 01 July 2016
... prisoner. Steele’s influential essay “Shawnee Origins of Their Seven Years’ War”—published in the Fall 2006 issue of this journal—is just one example of captives’ disproportionate roles in shaping larger events. When six Shawnee warriors were imprisoned by South Carolina authorities in 1753, Shawnees...
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Bondsmen, Servants, and Slaves: Social Hierarchies in the Heart of Seventeenth-Century North America
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (1): 115–139.
Published: 01 January 2017
... traveled with La Salle to reconstruct the varieties of bondage that they encountered in the heart of the continent. Copyright 2017 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2017 La Salle Natchez Taensas Mississippi valley slavery Shawnee On an August day in 1686, Nika, a Shawnee slave...
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“To Conclude on a General Union” Masculinity, the Chickamauga, and Pan-Indian Alliances in the Revolutionary Era
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (3): 429–448.
Published: 01 July 2021
... and the Choctaws. These Cherokees were also “charged with more belts” that they were entrusted to deliver to other southern Indian nations. 15 In 1781 Cherokee representatives returned to Detroit with “a Deputation of Principal Chiefs” representing the Shawnees and Delawares. 16 The Cherokee spokesperson...
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Presidential Address: Eighteenth-Century Indian Trading Villages in the Wabash River Valley
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (3): 349–371.
Published: 01 July 2018
... . Columbus : Ohio Department of Natural Resources . Lakomäki Sami . 2014 . Gathering Together: The Shawnee People through Diaspora and Nationhood, 1600–1870 . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . La Potherie Bacqueville de . 1966 [1722, 1753]. Histoire de l’Amérique...
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Creek Indian Globetrotter: Tomochichi's Trans-Atlantic Quest for Traditional Power in the Colonial Southeast
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (4): 605–635.
Published: 01 October 2013
.... Second, he tried to establish a hierar-
chical relationship with several Lower and Upper Creek headmen as well
as a Shawnee civil leader. In turn, he jockeyed for authority with a rival
Lower Creek town, Coweta, whose war leader attempted to woo Georgia.
Third, Tomochichi successfully restored...
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Native American History, Ethnohistory, and Context
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (4): 591–604.
Published: 01 October 2007
..., recently wrote a
pathbreaking essay on the Shawnee evolution into nationhood during
the pre- and early contact period in the Middle Atlantic region of what
would become the United States. He marshaled an amazing command of
the extensive archaeological data available for Pennsylvania...
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Indigenous Catholicism and St. Joseph Potawatomi Resistance in “Pontiac's War,” 1763–1766
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 143–166.
Published: 01 January 2016
... that Anishinaabeg frequented the region in the
decade before Pontiac’s War. Delawares and Shawnees similarly operated in
the vicinity of Detroit and even farther west. As recently as March 1763
Fort Miami’s Ensign Robert Holmes informed the Detroit commander that
Shawnees, Delawares, and Senecas had sent...
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The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (4): 547–548.
Published: 01 October 2021
... by trespassing (127). But much of the land that the Haudenosaunee ceded—in an unprecedentedly expensive treaty (£10,000 in cash and presents)—actually belonged to the Shawnee, who launched their own war against encroachment in 1774. Susan M. Hill’s The Clay We Are Made Of provides both an excellent...
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Replanting Cultures: Community-Engaged Scholarship in Indian Country
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Ethnohistory (2025) 72 (2): 235–236.
Published: 01 April 2025
.... The first section highlights successful partnerships with the three federally recognized Shawnee tribes. Each author shows that community-engaged scholarship calls for the recognition of multiple stakeholders and that Native communities must be granted the power to shape these projects. The authors also...
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Unsettling the West: Violence and State Building in the Ohio Valley
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 759–760.
Published: 01 October 2019
... colonial space. The French and British empires, British settlers from the seaboard colonies, and Shawnees, Delawares, Wyandots, and Haudenosaunees, all jockeyed for control of the region in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. None completely succeeded, making the Ohio Valley a place where...
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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (4): 551–552.
Published: 01 October 2021
... that peoples such as the Creek, Haudenosaunee, and Shawnee wielded and how they mounted a genuine challenge to American expansionist aims. Calloway also highlights the ingenuity and skill of Native leaders such as Red Jacket, Alexander McGillivray, and Joseph Brant, showing them to be Washington’s equal...
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