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The borderland of fear : Vincennes, Prophetstown, and the invasion of the Miami homeland / Patrick Bottiger.
Author
Bottiger, Patrick
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
©2016
Description
xix, 244 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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E78.O4 B56 2016
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Subject(s)
Shawnee Indians
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History
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19th century
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Kickapoo Indians
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History
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19th century
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Miami Indians
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History
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19th century
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Potawatomi Indians
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History
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19th century
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Delaware Indians
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History
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19th century
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Immigrants
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Ohio River Valley
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History
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19th century
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Ohio River Valley
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Race relations
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History
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19th century
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Indigenous Studies
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Series
Borderlands and transcultural studies
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Summary note
"The Ohio River Valley was a place of violence in the nineteenth century, something witnessed on multiple stages ranging from local conflicts between indigenous and Euro-American communities to the Battle of Tippercanoe and the War of 1812. To describe these events as simply the result of American expansion versus indigenous nativism disregards the complexities of the people and their motivations. Patrick Bottiger explores the diversity between and among the communities that were the source of this violence. As new settlers invaded their land, the Shawnee brothers Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh pushed for a unified Indigenous front. However, the multiethnic Miamis, Kickapoos, Potawatomis, and Delawares, who also lived in the region, favored local interests over a single tribal entity. The Miami-French trade and political network was extensive, and the Miamis staunchly defended their hegemony in the region from challenges by other Native groups. Additionally, William Henry Harrison, governor of the Indiana Territory, lobbied for the introduction of slavery in the territory. In its own turn, this move sparked heated arguments in newspapers and on the street. Harrisonians deflected criticism by blaming tensions on indigenous groups and then claiming that antislavery settlers were Indian allies. Bottiger demonstrates that violence, rather than being imposed on the region's inhabitants by outside forces, instead stemmed from the factionalism that was already present. The Borderland of fear explores how these conflicts were not between nations and races but rather between cultures and factions." -- Book jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index.
Contents
Introduction
Facing east from Miami country
The national trinity
Prophetstown for their own purposes
Vincennes, the politics of slavery, and the Indian "threat"
The battles of Tippecanoe
Conclusion.
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Vincennes, Prophetstown, and the invasion of the Miami homeland
ISBN
9780803254848
0803254849
LCCN
2016936617
OCLC
946906313
Other standard number
40026513196
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