eBook

The Memory of All Ancient Customs

Midtrød, Tom Arne

2012,2017

Overview

InThe Memory of All Ancient Customs, Tom Arne Midtrød examines the complex patterns of diplomatic, political, and social communication among the American Indian peoples of the Hudson Valley-including the Mahicans, Wappingers, and Esopus Indians-from the early seventeenth century through the American Revolutionary era. By focusing on how members of different Native groups interacted with one another, this book places Indians rather than Europeans on center stage. Midtrød uncovers a vast and multifaceted Native American world that was largely hidden from the eyes of the Dutch and English colonists who gradually displaced the indigenous peoples of the Hudson Valley. InThe Memory of All Ancient Customshe establishes the surprising extent to which numerically small and militarily weak Indian groups continued to understand the world around them in their own terms, and as often engaged- sometimes violently, sometimes cooperatively-with neighboring peoples to the east (New England Indians) and west (the Iroquois ) as with the Dutch and English colonizers. Even as they fell more and more under the domination of powerful outsiders-Iroquois as well as Dutch and English-the Hudson Valley Indians were resilient, maintaining or adapting features of their traditional diplomatic ties until the moment of their final dispossession during the American Revolutionary War.

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Subject: 17th century / 18th century / american revolution / Colonial Period (1600-1775) / Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 / esopus indians / Ethnic relations / Government relations / HISTORY / HISTORY / World / Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) / Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Ethnic relations / Indians of North America / Indians of North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 / Indians of North America -- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Government relations / Indians of North America -- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Politics and government -- 17th century / Indians of North America -- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Politics and government -- 18th century / indigenous social communication / iroquois indians / mahicans / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) / native american colonization / native american culture / native american populations / NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES / native interaction / new england indians / New York (State) / New York (State) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 / Politics and government / State & Local / U.S. HISTORY / United States / wappingers
• ISBN: 9780801449376, 0801449375, 9780801464591, 0801464595, 9780801464126, 0801464129