Native Americans in the American Revolution

How the War Divided, Devastated, and Transformed the Early American Indian World

Ethan A.. Schmidt

• Publisher: Praeger
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780313359316
• eBook ISBN: 9780313359323
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Early American History
• Index: History

This valuable book provides a succinct, readable account of an oft-neglected topic in the historiography of the American Revolution: the role of Native Americans in the Revolution's outbreak, progress, and conclusion. There has not been an all-encompassing narrative of the Native American experience during the American Revolutionary War period—until now. Native Americans in the American Revolution: How the War Divided, Devastated, and Transformed the Early American Indian World fills that gap in the literature, provides full coverage of the Revolution's effects on Native Americans, and details how Native Americans were critical to the Revolution's outbreak, its progress, and its conclusion. The work covers the experiences of specific Native American groups such as the Abenaki, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Delaware, Iroquois, Seminole, and Shawnee peoples with information presented by chronological period and geographic area. The first part of the book examines the effects of the Imperial Crisis of the 1760s and early 1770s on Native peoples in the Northern colonies, Southern colonies, and Ohio Valley respectively. The second section focuses on the effects of the Revolutionary War itself on these three regions during the years of ongoing conflict, and the final section concentrates on the postwar years.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Guide to the Principal Native American Groups during the Revolutionary Era, Grouped by Region
• Timeline of the Major Events of the American Revolution, Including Those Relating to Native Americans
• Introduction: The Great War for Empire and the End of Triangular Native Diplomacy
• 1 Pontiac's Rebellion, the Proclamation of 1763, and the New British Indian Policy
• 2 The Collapse of British Indian Policy in the South
• 3 The Collapse of British Indian Policy in the North
• 4 The Collapse of British Indian Policy in the West
• 5 The Revolutionary War in the South
• 6 The Revolutionary War in the North
• 7 The Revolutionary War in the West
• 8 "Like We Should Soon Become No People": The Assault on Indian Land in the Immediate Aftermath of the American Revolution
• Conclusion: The Struggle Continues
• Notes
• Bibliographic Essay
• Index