Title The Two Hendricks Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery

Published Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (369 p.) Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Map: The Mohawk Valley and environs, 1670-1755 -- Map: The Two Hendricks' wider world -- Introduction: Fame and Obscurity -- Chapter 1. New Birth -- Land of shadows -- The French ascendancy -- Covenant Chain -- Protestant Mohawks -- Woeful war -- The Albany swindle -- Hendrick's nadir -- Neutrality -- Chapter 2. Odyssey -- "Great veneration" -- "Glorious enterprise" -- Queen and court -- City and country -- Hendrick's transformation -- Inglorious enterprise -- Fort and chapel -- Schoharie lands -- Eclipse Backcountry crises -- Boston and Maine -- The land under their feet -- End of days -- Chapter 3. Hendrick's War -- Origins of the Iroquois myth -- The transformation of Mohawk country -- William Johnson and the Mohawk Valley -- Hendrick Peters Theyanoguin -- Stretching the chain -- Calls to war -- Warraghiyagey -- Hatchet in hand -- The failure of arms -- Chapter 4. Apotheosis -- Politics and prisoners -- The decline of Mohawk influence -- The chain gathers rust -- Stockbridge -- The stakes are raised -- The chain broken -- Covenant Chain and empire -- The road to the Albany Congress Exhortation and acquiescence -- Apotheosis -- Light and shadow -- Conclusion: Memory and Meaning -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index Notes Description based upon print version of record Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Theyanoguin, Hendrick Peters, 1692-1755. Tejonihokarawa, Hendrick Peters, approximately 1660-approximately 1735. SUBJECT Tejonihokarawa, Hendrick Peters, approximately 1660-approximately 1735 fast Theyanoguin, Hendrick Peters, 1692-1755 fast Subject Six Nations. SUBJECT Six Nations fast Subject Mohawk Indians -- Biography Mohawk Indians -- History -- 18th century Indians of North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. British colonies Indians of North America -- Colonial period Mohawk Indians SUBJECT Great Britain -- Colonies -- America. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056660 United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140131 Subject America United States Genre/Form Biographies History Form Electronic book LC no. 2009020267 ISBN 9780674273856 0674273850

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