Author: Michael Leroy Oberg
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801472947
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Many know the name Uncas only from James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, but the historical Uncas flourished as an important leader of the Mohegan people in seventeenth-century Connecticut. In Uncas: First of the Mohegans, Michael Leroy Oberg integrates the life story of an important Native American sachem into the broader story of European settlement in America. The arrival of the English in Connecticut in the 1630s upset the established balance among the region's native groups and brought rapid economic and social change. Oberg argues that Uncas's methodical and sustained strategies for adapting to these changes made him the most influential Native American leader in colonial New England. Emerging from the damage wrought by epidemic disease and English violence, Uncas transformed the Mohegans from a small community along the banks of the Thames River in Connecticut into a regional power in southern New England. Uncas learned quickly how to negotiate between cultures in the conflicts that developed as natives and newcomers, Indians and English, maneuvered for access to and control of frontier resources. With English assistance, Uncas survived numerous assaults and plots hatched by his native rivals. Unique among Indian leaders in early America, Uncas maintained his power over large numbers of tributary and other native communities in the region, lived a long life, and died a peaceful death (without converting to Christianity) in his people's traditional homeland. Oberg finds that although the colonists considered Uncas "a friend to the English," he was first and foremost an assertive guardian of Mohegan interests.
Uncas
Author: Michael Leroy Oberg
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801472947
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Many know the name Uncas only from James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, but the historical Uncas flourished as an important leader of the Mohegan people in seventeenth-century Connecticut. In Uncas: First of the Mohegans, Michael Leroy Oberg integrates the life story of an important Native American sachem into the broader story of European settlement in America. The arrival of the English in Connecticut in the 1630s upset the established balance among the region's native groups and brought rapid economic and social change. Oberg argues that Uncas's methodical and sustained strategies for adapting to these changes made him the most influential Native American leader in colonial New England. Emerging from the damage wrought by epidemic disease and English violence, Uncas transformed the Mohegans from a small community along the banks of the Thames River in Connecticut into a regional power in southern New England. Uncas learned quickly how to negotiate between cultures in the conflicts that developed as natives and newcomers, Indians and English, maneuvered for access to and control of frontier resources. With English assistance, Uncas survived numerous assaults and plots hatched by his native rivals. Unique among Indian leaders in early America, Uncas maintained his power over large numbers of tributary and other native communities in the region, lived a long life, and died a peaceful death (without converting to Christianity) in his people's traditional homeland. Oberg finds that although the colonists considered Uncas "a friend to the English," he was first and foremost an assertive guardian of Mohegan interests.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801472947
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Many know the name Uncas only from James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, but the historical Uncas flourished as an important leader of the Mohegan people in seventeenth-century Connecticut. In Uncas: First of the Mohegans, Michael Leroy Oberg integrates the life story of an important Native American sachem into the broader story of European settlement in America. The arrival of the English in Connecticut in the 1630s upset the established balance among the region's native groups and brought rapid economic and social change. Oberg argues that Uncas's methodical and sustained strategies for adapting to these changes made him the most influential Native American leader in colonial New England. Emerging from the damage wrought by epidemic disease and English violence, Uncas transformed the Mohegans from a small community along the banks of the Thames River in Connecticut into a regional power in southern New England. Uncas learned quickly how to negotiate between cultures in the conflicts that developed as natives and newcomers, Indians and English, maneuvered for access to and control of frontier resources. With English assistance, Uncas survived numerous assaults and plots hatched by his native rivals. Unique among Indian leaders in early America, Uncas maintained his power over large numbers of tributary and other native communities in the region, lived a long life, and died a peaceful death (without converting to Christianity) in his people's traditional homeland. Oberg finds that although the colonists considered Uncas "a friend to the English," he was first and foremost an assertive guardian of Mohegan interests.
Uncas and the Mohegan-Pequot
Author: Arthur L. Peale
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mohegan Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mohegan Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Uncas and Miantonomoh
Author: William Leete Stone
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021412140
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Stone retells the story of the Pequot War from the point of view of two important Native American figures: Uncas, sachem of the Mohegan tribe, and Miantonomoh, sachem of the Narragansetts. Through their stories, Stone provides insight into early colonial relations with indigenous peoples. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021412140
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Stone retells the story of the Pequot War from the point of view of two important Native American figures: Uncas, sachem of the Mohegan tribe, and Miantonomoh, sachem of the Narragansetts. Through their stories, Stone provides insight into early colonial relations with indigenous peoples. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Lasting of the Mohegans
Author: Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Uncas
Author: Michael Leroy Oberg
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801438776
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Oberg argues that Unca's methodical and sustained strategies for adapting to these changes made him the most influential Native American leader in colonial New England."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801438776
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Oberg argues that Unca's methodical and sustained strategies for adapting to these changes made him the most influential Native American leader in colonial New England."--BOOK JACKET.
The Pequot War
Author: Alfred A. Cave
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This book offers the first full-scale analysis of the Pequot War (1636-37), a pivotal event in New England colonial history. Through an innovative rereading of the Puritan sources, Alfred A. Cave refutes claims that settlers acted defensively to counter a Pequot conspiracy to exterminate Europeans. Drawing on archaeological, linguistic, and anthropological evidences to trace the evolution of the conflict, he sheds new light on the motivations of the Pequots and their Indian allies, the fur trade, and the cultural values and attitudes in New England. He also provides a reappraisal of the interaction of ideology and self- interest as motivating factors in the Puritan attack on the Pequots.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This book offers the first full-scale analysis of the Pequot War (1636-37), a pivotal event in New England colonial history. Through an innovative rereading of the Puritan sources, Alfred A. Cave refutes claims that settlers acted defensively to counter a Pequot conspiracy to exterminate Europeans. Drawing on archaeological, linguistic, and anthropological evidences to trace the evolution of the conflict, he sheds new light on the motivations of the Pequots and their Indian allies, the fur trade, and the cultural values and attitudes in New England. He also provides a reappraisal of the interaction of ideology and self- interest as motivating factors in the Puritan attack on the Pequots.
History of Norwich, Connecticut
Author: Frances Manwaring Caulkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Norwich (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Norwich (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Connecticut, Between Old John Uncas, Young John Uncas, and Several Other Mohegan Indians on Behalf of Themselves and the Rest of Their Tribe by John Mason and Samuel Mason, Gentlemen, the Trustees for and Guardians of the Said Tribe, Appellants, and the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Connecticut in New England in America, and Others, Respondents
Author: Connecticut
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights
Author: Lorrin R Thomas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351678736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 667
Book Description
Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights offers a reexamination of the history of Puerto Ricans’ political and social activism in the United States in the twentieth century. Authors Lorrin Thomas and Aldo A. Lauria Santiago survey the ways in which Puerto Ricans worked within the United States to create communities for themselves and their compatriots in times and places where dark-skinned or ‘foreign’ Americans were often unwelcome. The authors argue that the energetic Puerto Rican rights movement which rose to prominence in the late 1960s was built on a foundation of civil rights activism beginning much earlier in the century. The text contextualizes Puerto Rican activism within the broader context of twentieth-century civil rights movements, while emphasizing the characteristics and goals unique to the Puerto Rican experience. Lucid and insightful, Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights provides a much-needed introduction to a lesser-known but critically important social and political movement.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351678736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 667
Book Description
Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights offers a reexamination of the history of Puerto Ricans’ political and social activism in the United States in the twentieth century. Authors Lorrin Thomas and Aldo A. Lauria Santiago survey the ways in which Puerto Ricans worked within the United States to create communities for themselves and their compatriots in times and places where dark-skinned or ‘foreign’ Americans were often unwelcome. The authors argue that the energetic Puerto Rican rights movement which rose to prominence in the late 1960s was built on a foundation of civil rights activism beginning much earlier in the century. The text contextualizes Puerto Rican activism within the broader context of twentieth-century civil rights movements, while emphasizing the characteristics and goals unique to the Puerto Rican experience. Lucid and insightful, Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights provides a much-needed introduction to a lesser-known but critically important social and political movement.
Early Native Literacies in New England
Author: Kristina Bross
Publisher: Native Americans of the Northe
ISBN: 9781558496484
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Examines some of the work of early American writers that centered around the Algonquian Indians.
Publisher: Native Americans of the Northe
ISBN: 9781558496484
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Examines some of the work of early American writers that centered around the Algonquian Indians.