On records : Delaware Indians, colonists, and the media of history and memory

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    • Newman, Andrew

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On records : Delaware Indians, colonists, and the media of history and memory

Andrew Newman

University of Nebraska Press, c2012

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Bibliography: p. [239]-270

Includes index

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Bridging the fields of indigenous, early American, memory, and media studies, On Records illuminates the problems of communication between cultures and across generations. Andrew Newman examines several controversial episodes in the historical narrative of the Delaware (Lenape) Indians, including the stories of their primordial migration to settle a homeland spanning the Delaware and Hudson Rivers, the arrival of the Dutch and the first colonial land fraud, William Penn's founding of Pennsylvania with a Great Treaty of Peace, and the "infamous" 1737 Pennsylvania Walking Purchase. As Newman demonstrates, the quest for ideal records-authentic, authoritative, and objective, anchored in the past yet intelligible to the present-has haunted historical actors and scholars alike. Yet without "proof," how can we know what really happened? On Records articulates surprising connections among colonial documents, recorded oral traditions, and material and visual cultures. Its comprehensive, probing analysis of historical evidence yields a multifaceted understanding of events and reveals new insights into the divergent memories of a shared past.

目次

List of Illustrations 000 Acknowledgments 000 Introduction 000 1. Lenape Annals 000 2. An Account of a Tradition 000 3. The Most Valuable Record 000 4. Writings and Deeds 000 Afterword: A Chain of Memory 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000

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