Title Native Americans in the American Revolution : how the war divided, devastated, and transformed the early American Indian world / Ethan A. Schmidt

Published Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 225 pages) Contents Pontiac's Rebellion, the Proclamation of 1763 and the new British Indian policy -- The collapse of British Indian policy in the South -- The collapse of British Indian policy in the North -- The collapse of British Indian policy in the West -- The Revolutionary War in the South -- The Revolutionary War in the North -- The Revolutionary War in the West -- "Like we should soon become no people" : the assault on Indian land in the immediate aftermath of the American Revolution -- Conclusion : the struggle continues Summary For many colonists, the American Revolution provided the opportunity to continue displacing Native Americans. This book provides an account of the role of Native Americans in the Revolution's outbreak, progress, and conclusion. It provides full coverage of the Revolution's effects on Native Americans, and details how Native Americans were critical to the Revolution's outbreak, its progress, and its conclusion. The work covers the experiences of specific Native American groups such as the Abenaki, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Delaware, Iroquois, Seminole, and Shawnee peoples with information presented by chronological period and geographic area. The first part of the book examines the effects of the Imperial Crisis of the 1760s and early 1770s on Native peoples in the Northern colonies, Southern colonies, and Ohio Valley respectively. The second section focuses on the effects of the Revolutionary War itself on these three regions during the years of ongoing conflict, and the final section concentrates on the postwar years. It adds the Native American perspective to reader's understanding of the American Revolution, a critical aspect of this period in history ; Supplies a synthesis of the best current and past work on the topic of Native Americans in the American Revolution ; And shows how the struggle over the definition and utilization of Native American identity, an issue that was initiated with the American Revolution, is still ongoing for American Indians. -- From publisher's website Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-211) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Indians of North America -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783. Indians of North America -- Government relations. British -- North America -- History -- 18th century Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1775-1783. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. Military participation -- Indian British Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Government relations Indians of North America -- Wars International relations Amerikanische Revolution Indianer Briten History. SUBJECT United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, Indian United States -- Relations -- Great Britain Great Britain -- Relations -- United States Subject Great Britain North America United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780313359323 0313359326 9798216121626 9789798216121 9798216121

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