TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lee,Jacob F.
TI  - Masters of the middle waters: Indian nations and colonial ambitions along the Mississippi 
SN  - 9780674239777
AV  - E78.M75 L44 2019
U1  - 977/.01 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Mississippi River Valley
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - History
KW  - Kinship
KW  - Illinois Indians
KW  - Indians, Treatment of
KW  - Illinois (Indiens)
KW  - Histoire
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - United States
KW  - State & Local
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
KW  - Native American
KW  - fast
KW  - Europe
KW  - Colonies
KW  - America
KW  - Mississippi, Vallée du
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Cities of the living, cities of the dead -- In Cahokia's wake -- Conversions -- Alliances and fractures -- A new world? -- An empire of kin -- Conquest -- Conclusion: The deep history of the midcontinent
N2  - From the fall of Cahokia in the early fourteenth century to the ascendancy of the young United States in the early nineteenth century, Jacob Lee reinterprets the history of early North America by tracing the key role major midcontinental rivers and social networks played in linking Indian nations and European empires in a long, shared history of conquest and resistance. Long before Europeans set foot on the shores of North America, Siouan peoples from the Great Plains, Algonquians from the Great Lakes, and Muskhogeans from the South traded with and fought each other in the heart of the midcontinent. Starting in the early 1600s, the Illinois became the dominant power in the region, constructing a network of allies that stretched from Lake Superior to Arkansas. They were at the height of their power in 1673 when the first French explorers, Jolliet and Marquette, appeared in the region. Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, the major empires in North American history--France, Britain, Spain, and the US--claimed part or all of the region. When Americans came on the scene and began to remake the midcontinent, they overturned the patterns of 150 years of interaction between Indians and Europeans.--
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