The Shawnee
The Shawnee

Author: Jerry E. Clark

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-07-11

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 0813148936

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Many Indian tribes claimed Kentucky as hunting territory in the eighteenth century, though for the most part their villages were built elsewhere. For the Shawnee, whose homeland was in the Ohio and Cumberland valleys, Kentucky was an essential source of game, and the skins and furs were vital for trade. When Daniel Boone explored Kentucky in 1769, a band of Shawnee warned him they would not tolerate the presence of whites there. Settlers would remember the warning until 1794 and the Battle of Fallen Timbers. In The Shawnee, Jerry E. Clark eloquently recounts the story of the bitter struggle between white settlers and the Shawnee for possession of the region, a conflict that left its mark in the legends of Kentucky.

The Kansa Indians
The Kansa Indians

Author: William E. Unrau

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1986-01-01

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780806119656

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After their first contacts with whites in the seventeenth century, the Kansa Indians began migrating from the eastern United States to what is now eastern Kansas, by way of the Missouri Valley. Settling in villages mostly along the Kansas River, they led a semi-sedentary life, raising corn and a few vegetables and hunting buffalo in the spring and fall. It was an idyllic existence-until bad, and then worse, things began to happen. William E. Unrau tells how the Kansa Indians were reduced from a proud people with a strong cultural heritage to a remnant forced against their will to take up the whites' ways. He gives a balanced but hard-hitting account of an important and tragic chapter in American history.

The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795-1870
The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795-1870

Author: Stephen Warren

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2008-12-12

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0252076451

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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. By analyzing the crucial role that individuals, institutions, and policies played in shaping modern tribal governments, 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.

Shawnee!
Shawnee!

Author: James Henri Howard

Publisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9780821404171

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A comprehensive account of Shawnee culture, based on fieldwork among the present-day Shawnee as well as historic accounts, photographs, and paintings. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Slavery on the Periphery
Slavery on the Periphery

Author: Kristen Epps

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0820350508

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Slavery on the Periphery focuses on nineteen counties on the Kansas-Missouri border, tracing slavery's rise and fall from the earliest years of American settlement through the Civil War along this critical geographical, political, and social fault line.