The Dutch-Munsee Encounter (Introduction) (original) (raw)

From Frontier to Border Along the Iroquois Southern Frontier

The Upper Susquehanna drainage in New York assumed increasingly greater prominence as a borderland during the eighteenth century. Contrary to the idea that geopolitical boundaries were Colonial impositions, the creation of this borderland ensued from long-term strategies on the part of Native American as well as Euro-American powers. Reacting to Colonial encroachments from south and east, the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) populated the valley with multi-ethnic towns consisting of both refugee tribes from the Atlantic seaboard and Iroquois representatives. These actions created a distinctive zone of creolized communities, and reflected the Haudenosaunee ability to play off English notions of demarcating the landscape.

Collisions of Cultures and Identities: Settlers and Indigenous Peoples

2006

The subject of 'Collisions of Cultures and Identities: Settlers and Indigenous Peoples' is crucial for the history of colonialism in the early modern and modern periods of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australasia. Meta-narratives of the rise of empires, the international conflicts that the rush for colonies entailed, and the details of the expansion of colonisers on foreign soil continue to occupy the central place in this history.

Unspeaking the Settler: "The Indian Today" in International Perspective

American Studies, 2005

The occasion for this essay is the fortieth anniversary of the publication of "The Indian Today," the Fall 1965 special issue of the Midcontinent American Studies Journal. The special issue was edited by the regular editor of the Journal, Stuart Levine, a professor of American studies at the University of Kansas, and by his guest co-editor, Nancy O. Lurie, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Following a positive reception, the special issue was revised and expanded into The American Indian Today, a collection of scholarly essays with the potential for popular appeal, which was published in 1968 by the commercial press Everett Edwards. The titles of both versions of the special issue are striking in their apparent simplicity and transparency. Of immediate note is that each title unselfconsciously deploys an authoritative definite article and a universalizing singular noun, suggesting that these collections will offer a comprehensive overvie...

Indians and Europe? Editor’s Postscript

Indians and Europe. An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays (Christian Feest, ed,), 1987

European images of "Indians," Native American visitors to Europe, real and ideologocal interaction