Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America

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In the beginning, North America was Indian country But only in the beginning After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers.Or so the story usually goes Yet, for three centuries after Columbus, Native people controlled most of eastern North America and profoundly shaped its destiny In Facing East from Indian Country, Daniel K Richter keeps Native people center stage throughout the story of the origins of the United States.Viewed from Indian country, the sixteenth century was an era in which Native people discovered Europeans and struggled to make sense of a new world Well into the seventeenth century, the most profound challenges to Indian life came less from the arrival of a relative handful of European colonists than from the biological, economic, and environmental forces the newcomers unleashed Drawing upon their own traditions, Indian communities reinvented themselves and carved out a place in a world dominated by transatlantic European empires In 1776, however, when some of Britain s colonists rebelled against that imperial world, they overturned the system that had made Euro American and Native coexistence possible Eastern North America only ceased to be an Indian country because the revolutionaries denied the continent s first peoples a place in the nation they were creating.In rediscovering early America as Indian country, Richter employs the historian s craft to challenge cherished assumptions about times and places we thought we knew well, revealing Native American experiences at the core of the nation s birth and identity. 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Richter [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Another book that no U.S history teacher should be without This book debunks so many myths and popular notions about the Native Americans that I came away feeling my mind had been purged of generations of stereotypes propogated both by Native Americans themselves and the popular media and I have a BA in the archaeology and anthropology of the prehistoric Great Basin There is no attempt to glorify,vilify, or neatly simplify any native tribe or conglomeration of tribes that are now thought of Another book that no U.S history teacher should be without This book debunks so many myths and popular notions about the Native Americans that I...Even though this book was a little hard to get into sometimes because of all the political and military details, I really loved how it gave me a different perspective of the English coming to America from the Native American point of view In all of our history classes growing up, at least in all of mine, I only really learned about how the British felt about colonizing America, and never fully understood what life must have been like for the natives This really opened up my mind and my eyes to Even though this book was a little hard to get into sometimes because of all the political and military details, I really loved how it gave me a different perspective of the English coming to America from the Native American point of view In all of our history classes growing up, at least in all of mine, I only really learned about how the British felt about colonizing America, and never fully understood what life must have been li...Seriously, this is one very bizarre text to classify At times, I m deluded enough to think that the information is new and really perceptive, until I realize that most of the anecdotes are fiction Richter creates these scenarios to make up for the lack of information of the time period, especially from the Indian POV.I did enjoy the chapter about the myths, like Pocahontas and King Phillip and all It was a good try on capturing the Indian perception of facing east to European explorers and se Seriously, this is one very bizarre text to classify At times, I m deluded enough to think that the information is new and really perceptive, until I realize that most of the anecdotes are fiction Richter creates these scenarios to make up for the lack of information of the time period, especially from the Indian POV.I did enjoy the chapter about the myths, like Pocahontas and King Phillip and all It was a good try on capturing the I...This book will, for better or worse, always be timely Nationalism is almost always a problem and it is in large part due to the myths we tell ourselves Many Americans tell themselves that the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock endowed with a passion for freedom and the rest if history Except that s not how it happe...Really brilliant All of the familiar stories contact, Pocahontas, King Philip with a 180 degree spin, with a lot of unfamiliar stories indigenous trade networks, the Indian face of the imperial wars that radically reorients the story of American history It s a shame that it ends with Indian Removal in Jacksonian America, rather than tracking the story beyond the Mississippi, because I m sure that Richter would do some magic with those familiar stories too But it does say Early America Really brilliant All of the familiar stories contact, Pocahontas, King Philip with a 180 degree spin, with a lot of unfamiliar st...Read for comps Really read in November for Spring 2010 teaching.Excellent in the differing perspective that Dr Richter offers, but the work largely works off of what may have happened Of course, history in the period, and with the specific groups here are difficult, and as the mongraph progresses further forward in time the historical analysis does get better as the sources expand, but conjecture is difficult to work with I think the most important thing Richter does is the change in perspective, which is looking East...Most histories of Native Americans in the 16th through 19th centuries focus on the westward push of Euro Americans and the retreat of Native peoples and their cultures However, by refocusing the story, Richter supports the claim that prior to 1776, Native Americans were able to adapt themselves to a sometimes uneasy coexistence with Euro Americans while they also found ways to cope with the environmental changes caus...Following the appropriate title, Richter flips our view of the history of the then future United States by facing east from the Native experience and telling history from their perspective Unfortunately, as Richter notes, anyone working on Native Americans in this period is looking at a limited set of sources, most of which face west and are written by Europeans Bringing out the native experience requires some speculation and imagination, which Richter successfully brings to this book He te Following the appropriate title, Richter flips our view of the history of the then future United States by facing east from the Native experience and telling history from their perspective Unfortunately, as Richter notes, anyone working on Native Americans in this period is looking at a limited set of sources, most of which face west and are written by Europeans Bringing out the native experience requires some speculation and imagination, which Richter successfully brings to this book He tells imagined but plausible stories of natives encountering de Soto s march, Pocahontas, and Northern Indians meeting with French traders Lookin...The importance of this seminal study seems to grow with each passing year, leading me to suspect that it is on the way to becoming a classic of American history Daniel Richter s originality and insight shine from the book s very title, which argues that we can best understand early American history by centering our studies on the heart of the North American continent, on Native America By doing so we realize that Europeans had virtually no effect on this continent until after 1600, and that th The importance of this seminal study seems to grow with each passing year, leading me to suspect that it is on the way to becoming a classic of American history Daniel Richter s originality and insight shine from the book s very title, which argues that we can best understand early American history by centering our studies on the heart of the North American continent, on Native America By doing so we realize that Europeans had virtually no effect on this continent until after 1600, and that their seventeenth century impact on Indians was indirect, taking the form of trade goods, ecological degradation, and new diseases.For the colonial era, Richter gives eastern Indians subjectivity and agency by using their own words and stories...

Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
  • English
  • 25 March 2018
  • Paperback
  • 336 pages
  • 0674011171
  • Daniel K. Richter
  • Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America