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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100199913803

ISBN-139780199913800

eBay Product ID (ePID)220691617

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Number of Pages216 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NamePeacemakers : the Iroquois, the United States, and the Treaty of Canandaigua 1794

SubjectUnited States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, United States / General

Publication Year2015

TypeTextbook

AuthorMichael Leroy Oberg

Subject AreaSocial Science, History

SeriesCritical Historical Encounters Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight8.8 Oz

Item Length8.1 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2014-047892

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Peacemakers is one of the best--if not the best--works to explore the pioneering work of U.S.-Native American diplomacy during America's early days as a republic."--Ronald Angelo Johnson, Texas State University "Peacemakers is an excellent single-volume treatment of the Treaty of Canandaigua that combines deep research in primary sources with attention to readable prose. Oberg's study will bring a new appreciation of its significance to a wide readership."--Jon Parmenter, Cornell University "If you want a thorough yet concise and readable history of Iroquois-U.S. relations around the time of the American Revolution, this is the book."--Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal974.7004/9755

Table Of ContentEditors' ForewordAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Guswenta2. Broken3. Critically Circumstanced4. St. Clair's Defeat, And Its Consequences5. Disaffected6. Fallen Timbers7. A Treaty at Canandaigua8. "All Causes of Complaint"9. The Long Life of the Treaty of CanandaiguaConclusion

SynopsisPeacemakers: The Iroquois, the United States, and the Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794 offers a glimpse into how native peoples participated in the intercultural diplomacy of the New Nation and how they worked to protect their communities against enormous odds. The book introduces students, in detail, to the Treaty of Canandaigua, which is little known outside of Central New York. It examines how the Six Nations of the Iroquois secured from the United States a recognition of their sovereign status as separate polities with the right to the "free use and enjoyment" of their lands. In the fall of 1794 leaders from the Six Nations of the Iroquois met with officials from the U.S. in Canandaigua, New York. Iroquois leaders sought the restoration of lands they had lost a decade before at the coercive treaty of Fort Stanwix, which was negotiated with delegates sent from the American Congress under the Articles of Confederation. They felt cheated and aggrieved. The Iroquois delegates also sought the "brightening" of the Covenant Chain alliance which historically had linked the Six Nations to their non-Indian friends and allies. President George Washington sent Timothy Pickering to represent the U.S. at Canandaigua. Washington instructed Pickering to secure from the Six Nations a pledge to take no part in the powerful Indian uprising then occurring in the Northwest Territory. Washington, Pickering, and others in the national government feared that hostile Indians could set the young republic's frontiers ablaze from New York through the Carolinas. Land-hungry New Yorkers, who saw in the acquisition and sale of Iroquois lands a means to finance state government without resorting to a politically inexpedient program of taxation, watched closely and with great suspicion Pickering's actions. The British, meanwhile, still clung to a number of their posts on American soil in the early-1790s. Quietly, they hoped connections to Indian communities on American territory might restrain the territorial aggressiveness of the young republic., Peacemakers: The Iroquois, the United States, and the Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794 offers a glimpse into how native peoples participated in the intercultural diplomacy of the New Nation and how they worked to protect their communities against enormous odds. The book introduces students, in detail, to the Treaty of Canandaigua, which is little known outside of Central New York. It examines how the Six Nations of the Iroquois secured from the United States a recognition of their sovereign status as separate polities with the right to the "free use and enjoyment" of their lands.

LC Classification NumberE99.I7O14 2016