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Author Calloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon), 1953- author.

Title The Indian world of George Washington : the first President, the first Americans, and the birth of the nation / Colin G. Calloway
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (648 pages)
Contents Learning curves -- Virginia's Indian country -- The Ohio Company and the Ohio Country -- Into Tanaghrisson's world -- Tanaghrisson's war -- Braddock and the limits of empire -- Frontier defense and a Cherokee alliance -- Frontier advance and a Cherokee war -- The other revolution -- Confronting the Indian boundary -- "A good deal of land" -- The question of Indian allies -- Town destroyer -- Killing Crawford -- Building a nation on Indian land -- The first President and the first Americans -- An Indian policy for the new nation -- Courting McGillivray -- The greatest Indian victory -- Philadelphia Indian diplomacy -- Achieving empire -- Transforming Indian lives -- A death and a non-death
Summary The Indian World of George Washington offers a fresh portrait of the most revered American and the Native Americans whose story has been only partially told
Notes Print version record
Subject Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Relations with Indians
SUBJECT Washington, George, 1732-1799 fast
Subject Indians of North America -- Government relations.
Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1750-1815.
Indians of North America -- History -- 18th century.
Indians of North America
Indians of North America -- Government relations
Indians of North America -- Wars
Relations with Indians
SUBJECT United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1754-1763. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140137
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140139
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780190652173
0190652179