Friends and enemies in Penn's Woods : Indians, colonists, and the racial construction of Pennsylvania

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Friends and enemies in Penn's Woods : Indians, colonists, and the racial construction of Pennsylvania

edited by William A. Pencak and Daniel K. Richter

Pennsylvania State University Press, c2004

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Two powerfully contradictory images dominate historical memory when we think of Native Americans and colonists in early Pennsylvania. To one side is William Penn's legendary treaty with the Lenape at Shackamaxon in 1682, enshrined in Edward Hicks's allegories of the "Peaceable Kingdom." To the other is the Paxton Boys' cold-blooded slaughter of twenty Conestoga men, women, and children in 1763. How relations between Pennsylvanians and their Native neighbors deteriorated, in only 80 years, from the idealism of Shackamaxon to the bloodthirstiness of Conestoga is the central theme of Friends and Enemies in Penn's Woods. William Pencak and Daniel Richter have assembled some of the most talented young historians working in the field today. Their approaches and subject matter vary greatly, but all concentrate less on the mundane details of how Euro- and Indian Pennsylvanians negotiated and fought than on how people constructed and reconstructed their cultures in dialogue with others. Taken together, the essays trace the collapse of whatever potential may have existed for a Pennsylvania shared by Indians and Europeans. What remained was a racialized definition that left no room for Native people, except in reassuring memories of the justice of the Founder. Pennsylvania came to be a landscape utterly dominated by Euro-Americans, who managed to turn the region's history not only into a story solely about themselves but a morality tale about their best (William Penn) and worst (Paxton Boys) sides. The construction of Pennsylvania on Native ground was also the construction of a racial order for the new nation. Friends and Enemies in Penn's Woods will find a broad audience among scholars of early American history, Native American history, and race relations.

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Contents List of Maps and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Daniel K. Richter and William A. Pencak Part I: Peoples in Conversation 1. New Sweden, Natives, and Nature Michael Dean Mackintosh 2. Colonialism and the Discursive Antecedents of Penn's Treaty with the Indians James O Neil Spady 3. Imagining Peace in Quaker and Native American Dream Stories Carla Gerona 4. Indian, Metis, and Euro-American Women on Multiple Frontiers Alison Duncan Hirsch Part II: Fragile Structures of Coexistence 5. Female Relationships and Intercultural Bonds in Moravian Indian Missions Amy C. Schutt 6. The Death of Sawantaeny and the Problem of Justice on the Frontier John Smolenski 7. Justice, Retribution, and the Case of John Toby Louis M. Waddell 8. The Diplomatic Career of Canasatego William A. Starna Part III: Toward a White Pennsylvania 9. Delawares and Pennsylvanians after the Walking Purchase Steven C. Harper 10. Squatters, Indians, Proprietary Government, and Land in the Susquehanna Valley David L. Preston 11. Metonymy, Violence, Patriarchy, and the Paxton Boys Krista Camenzind 12. "Real" Indians, "White" Indians, and the Contest for the Wyoming Valley Paul Moyer 13. Whiteness and Warfare on a Revolutionary Frontier Gregory T. Knouff Afterword: James H. Merrell Abbreviations Notes Contributors Index

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