Title The memory of all ancient customs : Native American diplomacy in the colonial Hudson Valley / Tom Arne Midtrød

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 297 pages) : maps Contents Introduction : politics and society -- Ties that bound -- Patterns of diplomacy -- Struggling with the Dutch -- Living with the English -- Friends and enemies -- In the shadow of the longhouse -- Change and continuity -- War and disunity -- Disaster and dispersal Summary In The Memory of All Ancient Customs, Tom Arne Midtrød examines the complex patterns of diplomatic, political, and social communication among the American Indian peoples of the Hudson Valley-including the Mahicans, Wappingers, and Esopus Indians-from the early seventeenth century through the American Revolutionary era. By focusing on how members of different Native groups interacted with one another, this book places Indians rather than Europeans on center stage. Midtrød uncovers a vast and multifaceted Native American world that was largely hidden from the eyes of the Dutch and English colonists who gradually displaced the Indigenous peoples of the Hudson Valley. In The Memory of All Ancient Customs he establishes the surprising extent to which numerically small and militarily weak Indian groups continued to understand the world around them in their own terms, and as often engaged- sometimes violently, sometimes cooperatively-with neighboring peoples to the east (New England Indians) and west (the Iroquois) as with the Dutch and English colonizers. Even as they fell more and more under the domination of powerful outsiders-Iroquois as well as Dutch and English-the Hudson Valley Indians were resilient, maintaining or adapting features of their traditional diplomatic ties until the moment of their final dispossession during the American Revolutionary War Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Subject Indigenous peoples -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Indigenous peoples -- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Government relations Indigenous peoples -- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Politics and government -- 17th century Indigenous peoples -- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Politics and government -- 18th century Indians of North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775) POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. Ethnic relations Indians of North America -- Colonial period Indians of North America -- Government relations Indians of North America -- Politics and government SUBJECT Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Ethnic relations New York (State) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091448 Subject New York (State) United States -- Hudson River Valley Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2011044665 ISBN 9780801464126 0801464129 0801464595 9780801464591

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