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Sinopsis de From Homeland to New Land: A History of the Mahican Indians, 1600-1830
The emphasis throughout this book is on describing and placing into historical context Mahican relations with surrounding Native groups: the Munsees of the lower Hudson, eastern Iroquoians, and the St. Lawrence and New England Algonquians. Starna also examines the Mahicans’ interactions with Dutch, English, and French interlopers. The result is an outstanding examination of the historical record that will become the definitive work on the Mahican people from the colonial period to the Removal Era. This history of the Mahicans begins with the appearance of Europeans on the Hudson River in 1609 and ends with the removal of these Native people to Wisconsin in the 1830s. Marshaling the methods of history, ethnology, and archaeology, William A. Starna describes as comprehensively as the sources allow the Mahicans while in their Hudson and Housatonic Valley homeland; after their consolidation at the praying town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts; and following their move to Oneida country in central New York at the end of the Revolution and their migration west.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue
1.Landscape and Environment
2.Natives on the Land
3.Mahican Places
4.Native Neighbors
5.The Ethnographic Past
6.The Mahicans and the Dutch
7.The Mahican Homeland
8.A Century of Mahican History
9.Stockbridge and Its Companions
10.New Stockbridge and Beyond
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index



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