Indigenous prosperity and American conquest : Indian women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792 / Susan Sleeper-Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sleeper-Smith, Susan, author.

Series:

North Carolina scholarship online.

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kidnapping--Ohio River Valley--History.

Kidnapping.

Indian women--Ohio River Valley--History--17th century.

Indian women.

Indian women--Ohio River Valley--History--18th century.

Indians, Treatment of--Ohio River Valley--History.

Indians, Treatment of.

Indians of North America--Ohio River Valley--Government relations.

Indians of North America.

United States--History--1783-1865.

United States.

United States--History--1783-1815.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

Summary:

"What frustrated Washington was his ongoing failure to induce Indians north of the Ohio to cede their lands ... Washington had sought to pacify the Indians by abandoning the doctrine of discovery and reimbursing them for their lands. But they continued to refuse to come to the treaty table, condemned further land cessions north of the Ohio, and formed the first northwestern Indian confederacy to oppose intrusion on their homelands ... Washington had to find other means to undercut Indian resistance. Those means involved razing villages, destroying the crops, and taking hostage the women and children the warriors were trying to protect ... Washington ordered the Kentucky militia to cut a wide swath of terror though agrarian communities clustered along the Wabash. Those villages, primarily populated by women, served as the breadbasket for Indian forces. Washington believed that the destruction of these communities and the kidnapping of their women and children would force those warriors to return to their villages and abandon their resistance to Washington's forces. He had done it successfully to the Seneca during the Revolutionary War, and he planned to do it again"--Introduction.

Contents:

The agrarian village world of the Ohio Valley Indians

The evolution of the Indian fur trade: from Green Bay to the Wabash River Valley

Reopening the Western trade

Webs of community: "The Gris & Turtle came to us and breakfasted with us as usual"

Picturing prosperity

Plunder and massacre

Capturing Indian women

"I foresaw, that if I parted with my land, I should reduce the women and children to weeping."

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908526-9-4

1-4696-4059-7

1-4696-4060-0

OCLC:

1035556544