Muddy Ground (eBook)

Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent

John William Nelson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
288 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7521-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In early North America, carrying watercraftusually canoesand supplies across paths connecting one body of water to another was essential in the establishment of both Indigenous and European mobility in the continent's interior. The Chicago portage, a network of overland canoe routes that connected the Great Lakes and Mississippi watersheds, grew into a crossroads of interaction as Indigenous and European people vied for its control during early contact and colonization. John William Nelson charts the many peoples that traversed and sought power along Chicago's portage paths from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries, including Indigenous Illinois traders, French explorers, Jesuit missionaries, Meskwaki warriors, British officers, Anishinaabe headmen, and American settlers. Nelson compellingly demonstrates that even deep within the interior, power relations fluctuated based on the control of waterways and local environmental knowledge. Pushing beyond political and cultural explanations for Indigenous-European relations in the borderlands of North America, Nelson places environmental and geographic realities at the center of the history of Indigenous Chicago, offering a new explanation for how the United States gained control of the North American interior through a two-pronged subjugation of both the landscapes and peoples of the continent.

Autor

John William Nelson is assistant professor of history at Texas Tech University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.9.2023
• Reihe/Serie: The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
• Reihe/Serie: The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
• Zusatzinfo: 10 halftones, 2 maps
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: American State Power • Anishinaabe History • Chicago River • Continental History of North America • Early Chicago • Ecology of the Great Lakes • Eighteenth Century North America • Environmental History of Wetlands • French Illinois • Freshwater History • Great Lakes Frontier • Great Lakes Maritime History • History of Indigenous Canoe Routes • History of Portages • History of the Chicago Portage • history of the Early Republic • History of the Fur Trade • illinois history • Indigenous Atlantic World • indigenous borderlands • Indigenous Chicago • internal improvements • Lake Michigan • miami history • Midwestern history • Native American Environmental History • Ottawa history • Potawatomi History • Roots of Environmental Justice • Seventeenth Century Illinois • Vast Early America • Waterborne Mobility
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-7521-8 / 1469675218
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-7521-3 / 9781469675213