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Jacob Lee offers a new understanding of the conquest of the American West based on the long history of warfare and resistance in the Mississippi River valley. The river and its tributaries were never simply a backdrop to unfolding events but advanced and thwarted the aspirations of Native nations, European imperialists, and American settlers alike.
Indians of North America --- Illinois Indians --- Indians, Treatment of --- Politics and government. --- History. --- Kinship --- Mississippi River Valley --- Europe --- Colonies
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"This book is a scholarly examination of events that occurred at and around the famous site of Starved Rock between summer 1673, when European explorers first viewed the bluff, to 1911, when Rock became the centerpiece of Illinois's second state park"--
Indians of North America --- Kaskaskia Indians --- Illinois Indians --- Algonquian Indians --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- History. --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Illinois River Valley (Ill.) --- Starved Rock State Park (Ill.) --- La Salle, Illinois, Indians, Fox Wars, Kaskaskia, French Colonial History.
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The first detailed analysis of Native metalworking in the Protohistoric/Contact Period. From the time of their earliest encounters with European explorers and missionaries, Native peoples of eastern North America acquired metal trinkets and utilitarian items and traded them to other aboriginal communities. As Native consumption of European products increased, their material culture repertoires shifted from ones made up exclusively of items produced from their own craft industries to ones substantially reconstituted by active appropriation, manipulation, and use of f
Illinois Indians --- Imports --- Exports --- Indian copperwork --- Copper implements --- Technological innovations --- First contact with Europeans. --- Industries. --- Commerce. --- History --- History. --- Mississippi River Valley --- Breakthroughs, Technological --- Innovations, Industrial --- Innovations, Technological --- Technical innovations --- Technological breakthroughs --- Technological change --- Copperwork, Indian --- New France --- Creative ability in technology --- Inventions --- Domestication of technology --- Innovation relay centers --- Research, Industrial --- Technology transfer --- Copperwork --- Implements, utensils, etc. --- International trade --- Algonquian Indians --- Indians of North America --- First contact with other peoples. --- First contact (Anthropology)
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