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Lewis, Frank D. "American Indians in the Marketplace: Persistence and Innovation among the Menominees and Metlakatlans, 1870–1920. By Brian C. Hosmer. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. Pp. xvi, 309. $35.00." Journal of Economic History 61, no. 4 (December 2001): 1141–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022050701005782.

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In recent years the study of native Americans has emphasized their response to incentives, among them the economic incentives associated with European contact. Despite the initial cultural and religious divide between aboriginals and the newcomers, historians are becoming increasingly of the view that, in many dimensions, Indians approached the market much as did nonnative consumers and producers. Brian Hosmer's American Indians in the Marketplace is firmly in this once-revisionist tradition. Hosmer presents case studies of two bands that developed successful, resource-based, economies; the Menominees of north-eastern Wisconsin, and the Tsimshians of Metlakatla, on the northern coast of British Columbia. Central to the economic and social development of these groups were the relations between band members and nonaboriginals, relations that are the focus of Hosmer's narrative.
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Morrison, Kenneth M. "Indians of Northeastern North America. Christian F. Feest." History of Religions 29, no. 1 (August 1989): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/463181.

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Eid, Leroy V. ""National" War Among Indians of Northeastern North America." Canadian Review of American Studies 16, no. 2 (May 1985): 125–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cras-016-02-01.

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Mancall, Peter C., and Thomas Weiss. "Was Ecomomic Growth Likely in Colonial British North America?" Journal of Economic History 59, no. 1 (March 1999): 17–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700022270.

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Conventional wisdom holds that output per capita in colonial British America increased between 0.3 and 0.6 percent per year. Our conjectural estimates challenge this view, suggesting instead that such growth was unlikely. We show that the most likely rate of economic growth was much lower, probably close to zero. We argue further that to understand the performance of the colonial economy it is necessary to include the economic activity of Native American Indians. When this is done, we estimate that the economy may have grown at the rate suggested by previous researchers.
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Fisher, Samuel K. "Atlantic ’45: Gaels, Indians and the Origins of Imperial Reform in the British Atlantic." English Historical Review 136, no. 578 (February 1, 2021): 85–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceab031.

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Abstract This article offers a new explanation of the origins of imperial reform in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic. It does so by arguing that the efforts of Gaelic Jacobites in Ireland and Scotland, along with those of Native diplomats in North America, should be viewed as similar attempts to reshape the British empire by recourse to the French—and that in the period 1745–8 these attempts bore fruit. By comparing the efforts of imperial officials to cope with the Jacobite rising of 1745 and their failures in Indian diplomacy during the same period, the article posits the existence of an ‘Atlantic ’45’, a shared crisis of diversity that prompted calls for imperial reform and shaped the way it played out in Scotland, North America and Ireland. As they struggled to repress the rebellion and win over Indian allies, imperial officials found that they could not gain control of Gaelic and Indian peoples without also gaining more control over their provincial subjects, an insight that lay at the heart of reform thinking for the rest of the century and put the empire on a collision course with provincial subjects’ sense of what it meant to be British. By acknowledging the centrality of diversity and the important contributions of Gaelic and Indian peoples, the article offers a new way of understanding imperial reform and revolution, one that includes a richer and more complex cast and gives more purchase on the different trajectories of Ireland, Scotland, and North America both within and outside empire.
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McGrath, Eileen. "North Carolina Books." North Carolina Libraries 68, no. 1 (March 21, 2011): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3776/ncl.v68i1.320.

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Compiled by Eileen McGrath, the following books are included: The North Carolina Gazetter: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places and Their History; Becoming Elizabeth Lawrence: Discovered Letters of a Southern Gardener; The Southern Mind under Union Rule: The Diary of James Rumley; A Day of Blood: The 1898 Wilmington Race Riot; Kay Kyser: The Ol' Professor of Sing! America's Forgotten Superstar; Haven on the Hill: A History of North Carolina's Dorothea Dix Hospital; Middle of the Air; Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation; Cow across America; Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France; 27 Views of Hillsborough: A Southern Town in Prose & Poetry; Twelve by Twelve: A One Room Cabin off the Grid and beyond the American Dream; and Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina.
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NICHOLS, ROGER L. "Western Attractions." Pacific Historical Review 74, no. 1 (February 1, 2005): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2005.74.1.1.

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North America,and in particular the United States, has fascinated Europeans as the place of the "exotic other " for at least the last two centuries. This article surveys American and European art, novels,radio programs, Western films, and television Westerns from the 1820s to the present. It posits that the presence of Indians, fictional Western heroes,gunmen,and a perceived general level of violence made frontier and Western America more colorful and exciting than similar circumstances and native people in other parts of the world. This resulted in a continuing interest in the fictional aspect of the American frontier and Western historical experiences.
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Foster II, H. Thomas, and Arthur D. Cohen. "Palynological Evidence of the Effects of the Deerskin Trade on Forest Fires during the Eighteenth Century in Southeastern North America." American Antiquity 72, no. 1 (January 2007): 35–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40035297.

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Three palynological cores from the coastal plain of Georgia and Alabama were analyzed for paleobotanical remains. Results show that the Indians of southeastern North America increased forest fires used in hunting as a response to the demand for deer hides during the early eighteenth century. Palynological data are consistent with known anthropogenic changes in the region. Charcoal abundance increased significantly between A.D. 1715 and 1770, which is the period of the most intensive hunting by the Indians. This study shows that forest fires from hunting had a significant and measurable effect on the evolution of the biophysical environment.
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Lloyd, Joel. "George Catlin's Geology." Earth Sciences History 10, no. 1 (January 1, 1991): 56–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.10.1.q83165576xx16047.

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George Catlin, the noted Nineteenth Century painter of American Indians had a deep interest in geology which, in the late years of his life, was to lead him far astray. He wrote a strange little book, entitled The Lifted and Subsided Rocks of America, that was published by Trubner & Co. of London in 1870. In that work Catlin hypothesized that under the great mountain chains of North and South America there existed subterranean vaults, through which tumultuous rivers ran, debouched in the Gulf of Mexico, and intermingled to become the Gulf Stream. The fury of this torrent flung American Indians, clinging to driftwood and rafts, as far as the coasts of Europe.
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Gamble, Lynn H. "Archaeological Evidence for the Origin of the Plank Canoe in North America." American Antiquity 67, no. 2 (April 2002): 301–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2694568.

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Advanced maritime technology associated with long-distance exchange and intensified resource acquisition has been linked to the development of stratification and greater sociopolitical complexity in the Pacific Rim region. One such example is the emergence of hereditary chiefs among the Chumash Indians of southern California. Plank boats owned by an elite group of wealthy individuals and chiefs were an integral part of an elaborate economic system that was based on maritime exchange. An artifact assemblage associated with the construction, maintenance, and use of this watercraft was identified and analyzed. It included wooden planks, asphaltum plugs, asphaltum caulking, and chipped stone drills. Radiocarbon dates and other relative-dating techniques provide strong evidence that the plank canoe originated at least 1,300 years ago in southern California. This represents the earliest use of this type of watercraft in North America and probably in the New World. The timing of this innovation provides evidence that sociopolitical complexity developed in the region at least 500 years earlier than previously proposed.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Indians of North America – Kansas – History"

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Eichstaedt, Donna March Wyman Mark. "Professional theories and popular beliefs about the Plains Indians and the horse with implications for teaching Native American history." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 1990. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9101110.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1990.
Title from title page screen, viewed November 3, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Mark Wyman (chair), Lawrence W. McBride, Charles Orser, L. Moody Simms, Lawrence Walker. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 255-268) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Tegtmeier, Kristen Anne. "Bleeding borders : the intersection of gender, race, and region in territorial Kansas /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Foley, Justin R. "In defense of self identity and place in Pyramid Lake Paiute history /." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2008. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1460756.

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Fierst, John Timothy. "The struggle to defend Indian authority in the Ohio Valley-Great Lakes region, 1763-1794." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ57540.pdf.

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Lando, Peter Louis. "The socio-history of the units of Kwakiutl property tenure." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28099.

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In this thesis I have set out to examine the historic change in the primary unit of Kwakiutl property tenure as it reflects the changing character of social relations between the members of this society. In order to follow this particular development the units of Kwakiutl social organization have been situated within the history of the period under scrutiny. This study commences with the speculative reconstruction of Kwakiutl social organization just prior to direct European contact. The namima is presented here as a property holding descent group with an inalienable attachment to an exclusive estate composed of specific territories, supernatural powers, and prerogatives. As a unit of economic production and consumption the namima was able to derive all of its material sustenance from this estate. The relations between individuals and the degree of access to the fruits of the harvest were organized according to the hierarchical order within each of these descent groups. The Kwakiutl became involved in the fur trade before the end of the 18th century as European entrepreneurs extended their trans-continental network. The wealth gleaned from this trade was integrated into the Kwakiutl economy to the enhancement of the existing social order. European settlement on the Northwest coast introduced the option of participation in the wage economy. This economy offered individual Kwakiutl men and women the experience of creating wealth outside of the traditional economic unit. Individuals began to seek status on the basis of their achievements. This change exemplified the new mode of relations. Individuals who had previously related as members of a descent group were now distinguished on the basis of their acquired wealth. While namima members of high birth maintained their title to traditional properties, these properties no longer, figured significantly in the native economy. In the 1880's the Department of Indian Affairs imposed units of property tenure upon the Kwakiutl without regard for the traditional native units. The populations identified within each administrative units were forced to recognize the imposed structure in order to represent their interests. In the years following 1830, then, the namima declined as the primary unit of Kwakiutl property tenure. The Kwakiutl redefined the units of social interaction as the character of social relations changed due to the introduction of new forms of wealth and land tenure. Today the namima is a specialized concept shared by a few Kwakiutl elders, anthropologists, and several Kwakiutl individuals involved in cultural revitalization. As the Kwakiutl acquire greater political and administrative independence in the near future it is certain that the namima will continue to be redefined.
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Sawin, Carolyn Patterson. "Native conversion, native identity : an oral history of the Bahá'í faith among First Nations people in the southern central Yukon Territory, Canada /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6411.

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Warrick, Gary A. "A population history of the Huron-Petun, A.D. 900-1650." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39238.

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This study presents a population history of the Huron-Petun, Iroquoian-speaking agriculturalists who occupied south-central Ontario from A.D. 900 to A.D. 1650. Temporal change in the number, size, and residential density of prehistoric and contact village sites of the Huron-Petun are used to delineate population change. It is revealed that Huron-Petun population grew dramatically during the fourteenth century, attaining a maximum size of approximately 30,000 in the middle of the fifteenth century. This growth appears to have been intrinsic (1.2% per annum) and is best explained by colonization of new lands and increased production and consumption of corn. Population stabilized during the fifteenth century primarily because of an increased burden of density-dependent diseases (tuberculosis) arising from life in large nucleated villages. Huron-Petun population remained at 30,000 until A.D. 1634; there is no archaeological evidence for protohistoric epidemics of European origin. The historic depopulation of the Huron-Petun country, resulting from catastrophic first encounters with European diseases between 1634 and 1640, is substantiated by archaeological data.
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Holcom, Andrew C. Young Kathleen Z. "Misrepresentations as complicity : the genocide against indigenous Americans in high school history textbooks /." Online version, 2010. http://content.wwu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/theses&CISOPTR=351&CISOBOX=1&REC=12.

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Akard, William Keith. "Wocante Tinza : a history of the American Indian Movement." Virtual Press, 1987. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/515087.

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The purpose of the study was to develop an ethnohistorical record of the American Indian Movement with an emphasis placed on portraying of the Indian view of the organization. In the course of the study, the movement was examined to determine its validity as a social organization within Indian society. To accomplish the task, the movement's social roles were assessed on four levels: the individual level, the social group level, the Indian societal level and the greater American societal level. Two main research strategies were employed in the data collection process. First, participant-observation was carried out during a two-year term as a non-Indian member of the movement. Much of the data collected gave indication of the internal social structure and social dynamics of the organization. Secondly, interviews were conducted during the membership period and additionally, during a three-year period as a resident on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The data collected in this manner included firsthand accounts movement activities and public opinion of the movement. Findinds. 1. The American Indian Movement functions within Indian society on the individual level as a social enclave to aid socially disenfranchised Indian individuals re-enter Indian society. 2. On the social group level, the movement presents a viewpoint on socio-political issues that differs from the monolithic position typical of the IRA tribal governments. 3. The American Indian Movement serves Indian society as a catalyst for social change, an endorsing force for tradition and culture, and as an advocate on behalf of Indian people. 4. The movement functions as a social reform movement to the greater American society by bringing Indian issues to the levels of national and international attention. 5. Structurally, the American Indian Movement is a formal social organization with a blend of traditional and acculturated social components. The American Indian Movement is clearly a valid functioning social organization within Indian society. The movement has successfully integrated socially to all levels of society. Although the efforts and strategies employed by the movement have been sensationalized by the media and provoked a negative controversial image, the American Indian Movement has made positive contributions to Indian society.
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Meeks, Eric Vaughn. "Border citizens race, labor, and identity in south-central Arizona, 1910-1965 /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3034985.

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Books on the topic "Indians of North America – Kansas – History"

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E, Unrau William. Indians of Kansas: The Euro-American invasion and conquest of Indian Kansas. Topeka, Kan: Kansas State Historical Society, 1991.

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Fox, Richard A. Phase III (Kansas) archaeological investigations and national register testing at 14LV114 and 14LV118, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. [Vermillion, S.D.?]: Archaeology Laboratory, University of South Dakota, 2000.

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Barnett, James S. Kansas ghost woman. Atchison, KS: James S. Barnett Press, 2003.

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Delso, Donald L. The Trails to Coffeyville, Kansas: Our multicultural roots. Coffeyville, KS: Coffeyville Community College, 2009.

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Delso, Donald L. The Trails to Coffeyville, Kansas: Our multicultural roots. Coffeyville, KS: Coffeyville Community College, 2009.

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The Kansa Indians: A history of the Wind People, 1673-1873. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986.

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Stevens, J. Sanderson. Archaeological inventory and geomorphological evaluation of the proposed VA cemetery expansion, Fort Riley, Kansas. Fort Riley, Kan: The Cultural Resources Division, 1999.

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The enduring Indians of Kansas: A century and a half of acculturation. Lawrence, Kan: University Press of Kansas, 1990.

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Blakeslee, Donald J. Along the Pawnee trail: Cultural resource survey and testing at Wilson Lake, Kansas : final report. [Kansas City, Mo.] (757 Federal Bldg., 601 E. 12th St., Kansas City 64106): [U.S. Army Engineer District], 1986.

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Mead, James R. Hunting and trading in Kansas, 1859-1875. Wichita, KS: Rowfant Press, 2015.

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Walczynski, Mark. "1730–1776: We Leave, Never to Return." In The History of Starved Rock, 128–42. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501748240.003.0009.

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This chapter describes the events in Starved Rock from 1730 to 1776. By 1732, nearly all Peoria Indians were living at villages in the Illinois Valley, at either Starved Rock or at Lake Peoria. For the Illinois, especially the Peoria and possibly some Cahokia living at Starved Rock, it appeared that the Mesquakie threat had been extinguished. Rather than continue their campaign of genocide against the Mesquakie, the French administration decided to utilize its resources where they were needed most—in the lower Mississippi Valley against the fierce Chickasaw tribe, who were allies and trade partners of the British. Meanwhile, in Europe, the French became embroiled in a conflict with the British known as the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), a conflict that spilled over to North America, where it is commonly and incorrectly called the French and Indian War. By 1777, the Potawatomi were firmly ensconced in the Illinois Country. Like the Potawatomi, the Mascouten and Kickapoo Indians also moved into Illinois. None of these groups, however, established themselves at Starved Rock.
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Colden, Cadwallader. "Coll. Dongan’s Advice to the Indians. Adario’s Enterprize, and Montreal Sacked by the Five Nations." In The History of the Five Indian Nations Depending on the Province of New-York in America. Cornell University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501713903.003.0006.

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This chapter first presents Coll. Dongan's advice to the Five Nations during a meeting in Albany on the 5th of August. They were advised not to harm their French prisoners, but to keep them to exchange for their own people, who were likewise prisoners of the French; and to do what they could to open a path for all the North Indians and Mahikanders that were among the Utawawas and farther Nations. The remainder of the chapter covers Adario, the chief of the Deonondadies, who, upon realizing that his Nation had become under suspicion of the French, resolved by some brave action against the Five Nations to recover the good graces of the French; and the invasion of the island of Montreal by 1200 men of the Five Nations.
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Walczynski, Mark. "1777–1840: The Big Knives Will Be in Control." In The History of Starved Rock, 145–62. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501748240.003.0010.

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This chapter recounts that while the Potawatomi, Odawa, and Ojibwe were migrating into Illinois, the American colonists in the eastern reaches of North America were fighting for their national independence from the British. The war ended in 1783 with the victorious Americans founding a new nation. Four years later, the US government organized a swath of land that included parts of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan into what is known as the Northwest Territory. Located within the boundary of this new jurisdiction was Starved Rock, which officially became part of the Northwest Territory in 1787. In 1823, the first Americans settled in the Starved Rock area. The chapter then looks at the Black Hawk War in 1832. The conflict began as a Sauk Indian response to American settlers moving onto lands ceded in 1804. Ultimately, treaties and land cession agreements written by representatives of the US government were intended to swindle the tribes; they denied basic due process rights to the Indians.
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Colden, Cadwallader. "The Affairs of the Five Nations with the Neighbouring English Colonies." In The History of the Five Indian Nations Depending on the Province of New-York in America. Cornell University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501713903.003.0003.

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This chapter describes the relationship between the Five Nations and their English neighbors. Amply supplied with firearms and ammunition, the Five Nations launched a campaign to avenge the affronts received from their neighbors as well as make all the Nations around them their tributaries. As a result, the Five Nations “over-ran” the greatest part of North America. They carried their arms as far South as Carolina, and to the Northward of New England, and as far west as the River Mississippi, and destroyed many Nations that resisted. These war-like expeditions also became troublesome for the colonies of Virginia and Maryland. Not only did the Indians who were friends with those colonies become “victims to the fury of the Five Nations,” but also the Christian inhabitants.
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Lauenroth, William K., and Ingrid C. Burke. "The Shortgrass Steppe: The Region and Research Sites." In Ecology of the Shortgrass Steppe. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195135824.003.0005.

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The central grassland region of North America (Fig. 1.1) is the largest contiguous grassland environment on earth. Prior to European settlement, it was a vast, treeless area characterized by dense head-high grasses in the wet eastern portion, and very short sparse grasses in the dry west. As settlers swept across the area, they replaced native grasslands with croplands, most intensively in the east, and less so in the west (Fig. 1.2). The most drought-prone and least productive areas have survived as native grasslands, and the shortgrass steppe occupies the warmest, driest, least productive locations. James Michener (1974) provided an apt description of the harshness of the shortgrass region in his book Centennial:… It is not a hospitable land, like that farther east in Kansas or back near the Appalachians. It is mean and gravelly and hard to work. It lacks an adequate topsoil for plowing. It is devoid of trees or easy shelter. A family could wander for weeks and never 4 nd enough wood to build a house. (p. 64)… The objective of this chapter is to introduce the shortgrass steppe (Fig. 1.3) and its record of ecological research. First we present an ecological history of the shortgrass steppe since the Tertiary, and provide the geographic and climatic context for the region. Second we describe the major research sites, and the history of the three major entities or programs that have shaped much of the science done in the shortgrass steppe: the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)–Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the International Biological Programme (IBP), and the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program. Grasses have been an important component of the shortgrass steppe of North America since the Miocene (5–24 million years ago) (Axelrod, 1985; Stebbins, 1981). Before that, during the Paleocene and Eocene (34–65 million years ago), the vegetation was a mixture of temperate and tropical mesophytic forests. Two causes have been proposed as explanations for this ancient change from forest to grassland. First, global temperatures decreased rapidly during the Oligocene (24–34 million years ago), creating conditions for a drier climate. These drier conditions, combined with a renewal of the uplift of the Rocky Mountains that had begun during the Paleocene, left the Great Plains in a rain shadow.
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deBuys, William. "Hawikku: Welcome to the Anthropocene." In A Great Aridness. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199778928.003.0016.

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History commenced for a large portion of North America on July 7, 1540. One may quibble over the dimension of territory affected, but the date is certain: it was duly written down, which is what distinguishes history, narrowly defined, from other ways of recording human experience. History is based on a documentary record; it begins when the documents start to pile up. On that July day nearly five centuries ago, a small army of Spaniards and Mexican Indians gathered before a stone village in what is now New Mexico and informed the residents thereof that henceforward they owed obedience to someone called the Pope and to the Catholic Sovereigns of Castile, in whom the Pope had entrusted authority over the bodies, souls, and lands of every person living on the islands and continent of the Mar Océano. This included the people of the stone village. No doubt these ideas sounded strange to their intended hearers, if indeed they were translated with the remotest accuracy. The intruders’ puzzling message was shouted out by someone who appeared to stare at a cloth, or a material similarly thin, flat, and flexible. It was a sheet of thick paper, nearly the size of one of the natives’ bison-hide shields. It bore many small marks, but no one from the village was close enough to observe this. Not that it mattered. The document asserting Spanish sovereignty over the village and its people was called the Requerimiento. Its purpose was to justify, in legal terms, the bloodshed and robbery that were soon to follow. An official of the Spanish host duly recited the entire document, which stipulated, on behalf of his commander, Captain-General Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, that if the natives failed to obey the commands of the Requerimiento, “I will make war against you everywhere and in every way I can. And I will subject you to the yoke and obedience of the Church and His Majesty. I will take your wives and children, and I will make them slaves. . . . I will take your property.
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