The Two Hendricks [electronic resource] : Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery.

Description based upon print version of record.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Map: The Mohawk Valley and environs, 1670-1755 -- Map: The Two Hendricks' wider world -- Introduction: Fame and Obscurity -- Chapter 1. New Birth -- Land of shadows -- The French ascendancy -- Covenant Chain -- Protestant Mohawks -- Woeful war -- The Albany swindle -- Hendrick's nadir -- Neutrality -- Chapter 2. Odyssey -- "Great veneration" -- "Glorious enterprise" -- Queen and court -- City and country -- Hendrick's transformation -- Inglorious enterprise -- Fort and chapel -- Schoharie lands -- Eclipse

Backcountry crises -- Boston and Maine -- The land under their feet -- End of days -- Chapter 3. Hendrick's War -- Origins of the Iroquois myth -- The transformation of Mohawk country -- William Johnson and the Mohawk Valley -- Hendrick Peters Theyanoguin -- Stretching the chain -- Calls to war -- Warraghiyagey -- Hatchet in hand -- The failure of arms -- Chapter 4. Apotheosis -- Politics and prisoners -- The decline of Mohawk influence -- The chain gathers rust -- Stockbridge -- The stakes are raised -- The chain broken -- Covenant Chain and empire -- The road to the Albany Congress

Exhortation and acquiescence -- Apotheosis -- Light and shadow -- Conclusion: Memory and Meaning -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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