The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795-1870 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780252076459)

Stephen Warren traces the transformation in Shawnee sociopolitical organization over seventy years as it changed from village-centric, multi-tribe kin groups to an institutionalized national government led by wealthy men with only marginal kin ties to the people they claimed to represent. The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795-1870 lays bare the myths and histories produced by Shawnee interpreters and their vested interests in modernizing the tribes.

Until recently, historians have assumed that Central Algonquians derive from politically unified tribes, but by analyzing the crucial role that individuals, institutions, and policies played in shaping modern tribal governments, Warren reveals a messier, more complicated history of migration and conflict. Ultimately, Warren establishes that the form of the modern Shawnee "tribe" was coerced in accordance with the U.S. government's desire for an entity with whom to do business, rather than as a natural development of traditional Shawnee ways.

Author: Stephen Warren
ISBN-10: 0252076451
ISBN-13: 9780252076459
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 12/12/2008
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d