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On Records - Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory (Hardcover)
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On Records - Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory (Hardcover)
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Bridging the fields of indigenous, early American, memory, and
media studies, On Records illuminates the problems of communication
between cultures and across generations. Andrew Newman examines
several controversial episodes in the historical narrative of the
Delaware (Lenape) Indians, including the stories of their
primordial migration to settle a homeland spanning the Delaware and
Hudson Rivers, the arrival of the Dutch and the first colonial land
fraud, William Penn's founding of Pennsylvania with a Great Treaty
of Peace, and the "infamous" 1737 Pennsylvania Walking Purchase. As
Newman demonstrates, the quest for ideal records-authentic,
authoritative, and objective, anchored in the past yet intelligible
to the present-has haunted historical actors and scholars alike.
Yet without "proof," how can we know what really happened? On
Records articulates surprising connections among colonial
documents, recorded oral traditions, and material and visual
cultures. Its comprehensive, probing analysis of historical
evidence yields a multifaceted understanding of events and reveals
new insights into the divergent memories of a shared past.
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