From homeland to new land : a history of the Mahican Indians, 1600-1830 / William A. Starna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Starna, William A.

Series:

Iroquoians and their world.

Iroquoians and their world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnohistory--New York (State).

Ethnohistory.

Mahican Indians--History.

Mahican Indians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This history of the Mahicans begins with the appearance of Europeans on the Hudson River in 1609 and ends with the removal of these Native people to Wisconsin in the 1830s. Marshaling the methods of history, ethnology, and archaeology, William A. Starna describes as comprehensively as the sources allow the Mahicans while in their Hudson and Housatonic Valley homeland; after their consolidation at the praying town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts; and following their move to Oneida country in central New York at the end of the Revolution and their migration west.The emphasis throughout this book is on describing and placing into historical context Mahican relations with surrounding Native groups: the Munsees of the lower Hudson, eastern Iroquoians, and the St. Lawrence and New England Algonquians. Starna also examines the Mahicans'interactions with Dutch, English, and French interlopers. The first and most transformative of these encounters was with the Dutch and the trade in furs, which ushered in culture change and the loss of Mahican lands. The Dutch presence, along with the new economy, worked to unsettle political alliances in the region that, while leading to new alignments, often engendered rivalries and war. The result is an outstanding examination of the historical record that will become the definitive work on the Mahican people from the colonial period to the Removal Era.

"The definitive ethnohistory of the Mahicans of New York State from the colonial period to the Removal Era"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Contents ""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Prologue""; ""1. Landscape and Environment""; ""2. Natives on the Land""; ""3. Mahican Places""; ""4. Native Neighbors""; ""5. The Ethnographic Past""; ""6. The Mahicans and the Dutch""; ""7. The Mahican Homeland""; ""8. A Century of Mahican History""; ""9. Stockbridge and Its Companions""; ""10. New Stockbridge and Beyond""; ""Afterword""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781496210586

1496210581

9780803245792

0803245793

OCLC:

839693153