TY - BOOK AU - Midtrød,Tom Arne TI - The memory of all ancient customs: Native American diplomacy in the colonial Hudson Valley SN - 9780801464126 AV - E78.H83 M53 2012eb U1 - 323.1197 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - Indians of North America KW - History KW - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 KW - Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) KW - Government relations KW - Politics and government KW - 17th century KW - 18th century KW - Indiens d'Amérique KW - États-Unis KW - Histoire KW - ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale) KW - HISTORY KW - United States KW - Colonial Period (1600-1775) KW - bisacsh KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Political Freedom & Security KW - Civil Rights KW - Human Rights KW - Ethnic relations KW - fast KW - Colonial period KW - New York (State) KW - Hudson, Vallée de l' (N.Y. et N.J.) KW - Relations interethniques KW - New York (État) KW - Hudson River Valley KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : politics and society -- Ties that bound -- Patterns of diplomacy -- Struggling with the Dutch -- Living with the English -- Friends and enemies -- In the shadow of the longhouse -- Change and continuity -- War and disunity -- Disaster and dispersal N2 - In The Memory of All Ancient Customs, Tom Arne Midtrød examines the complex patterns of diplomatic, political, and social communication among the American Indian peoples of the Hudson Valley-including the Mahicans, Wappingers, and Esopus Indians-from the early seventeenth century through the American Revolutionary era. By focusing on how members of different Native groups interacted with one another, this book places Indians rather than Europeans on center stage. Midtrød uncovers a vast and multifaceted Native American world that was largely hidden from the eyes of the Dutch and English colonists who gradually displaced the indigenous peoples of the Hudson Valley. In The Memory of All Ancient Customs he establishes the surprising extent to which numerically small and militarily weak Indian groups continued to understand the world around them in their own terms, and as often engaged- sometimes violently, sometimes cooperatively-with neighboring peoples to the east (New England Indians) and west (the Iroquois) as with the Dutch and English colonizers. Even as they fell more and more under the domination of powerful outsiders-Iroquois as well as Dutch and English-the Hudson Valley Indians were resilient, maintaining or adapting features of their traditional diplomatic ties until the moment of their final dispossession during the American Revolutionary War UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=671531 ER -