The Chiefs Now in This City

Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America

Colin G. Calloway (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2021
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-754765-6 (ISBN)

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During the years of the Early Republic, prominent Native leaders regularly traveled to American cities--Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Quebec, New York, and New Orleans--primarily on diplomatic or trade business, but also from curiosity and adventurousness. They were frequently referred to as "the Chiefs now in this city" during their visits, which were sometimes for extended periods of time. Indian people spent a lot of time in town. Colin Calloway, National Book Award finalist and one of the foremost chroniclers of Native American history, has gathered together the accounts of these visits and from them created a new narrative of the country's formative years, redefining what has been understood as the "frontier."

Calloway's book captures what Native peoples observed as they walked the streets, sat in pews, attended plays, drank in taverns, and slept in hotels and lodging houses. In the Eastern cities they experienced an urban frontier, one in which the Indigenous world met the Atlantic world. Calloway's book reveals not just what Indians saw but how they were seen. Crowds gathered to see them, sometimes to gawk; people attended the theatre to watch “the Chiefs now in this city” watch a play.

Their experience enriches and redefines standard narratives of contact between the First Americans and inhabitants of the American Republic, reminding us that Indian people dealt with non-Indians in multiple ways and in multiple places. The story of the country's beginnings was not only one of violent confrontation and betrayal, but one in which the nation's identity was being forged by interaction between and among cultures and traditions.

Colin G. Calloway is John Kimball Jr. 1943 Professor of History and Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. He is the author of several books, most recently The Indian World of George Washington (OUP 2018), which was a National Book Award Finalist, and which won the Excellence in American History Book Award from the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the George Washington Book Prize.

Introduction

1. The Towns and Cities of Early America

2. Coming to Town

3. The Other Indians in Town

4. Taking Their Lives in Their Hands

Picturing Chiefs in the City

5. Lodging, Dining, and Drinking

6. Out and About

7. Performers and Performances

8. Going Home

Conclusion

Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.05.2021
Zusatzinfo	36 Black and White Illustrations and Color Plates
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	239 x 163 mm
Gewicht	558 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-19-754765-6 / 0197547656
ISBN-13	978-0-19-754765-6 / 9780197547656
Zustand	Neuware