Book review: Indigenous prosperity and American conquest: Indian women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792
Click on the DOI link to access the article (may not be free). Scholars have long chronicled and analyzed the contest for the Ohio Valley and the dispossession of its Native peoples. Susan Sleeper-Smith is the first to provide an in-depth examination of Indian women and how directly their indigenous...
Published in: | Ethnohistory |
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Format: | Review |
Language: | English |
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UNIVERSITY PRESS
2019
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10057/16016 https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-7300150 |
Summary: | Click on the DOI link to access the article (may not be free). Scholars have long chronicled and analyzed the contest for the Ohio Valley and the dispossession of its Native peoples. Susan Sleeper-Smith is the first to provide an in-depth examination of Indian women and how directly their indigenous economy played into the conquest. Sleeper-Smith uses the 1791 raid of Kentucky militia general Charles Scott as a framing device for the book. |
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