The Shawnees and the War for America (Penguin's Library of American Indian History) - Hardcover

Calloway, Colin G

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670038628 ISBN 13: 9780670038626

Publisher: Viking Books, 2007

Synopsis

An account of early American settler efforts to claim Shawnee territories in Ohio, Kentucky, and other states traces how the Shawnee tribe and its allies temporarily met American forces on equal terms before being forced to fight in order to salvage its cultural and political independence.

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Review:

aThe history engages us fully. . . . The remarkable texturing of the historic period and the description of responses by early Americans and their leaders . . . set Callowayas book apart.a
a "Los Angeles Times"
a Fascinating, comprehensive and passionate.a
aLeslie Marmon Silko

The history engages us fully. . . . The remarkable texturing of the historic period and the description of responses by early Americans and their leaders . . . set Calloway s book apart.
"Los Angeles Times"
Fascinating, comprehensive and passionate.
Leslie Marmon Silko

?The history engages us fully. . . . The remarkable texturing of the historic period and the description of responses by early Americans and their leaders . . . set Calloway's book apart.?
? "Los Angeles Times"

? Fascinating, comprehensive and passionate.?
?Leslie Marmon Silko

About the Author:

Colin G. Calloway is a professor of history and Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. He is the author of The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America; One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark; and The American Revolution in Indian Country. He is the series editor of The Penguin Library of American Indian History.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0670038628
• ISBN 13: 9780670038626
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216