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One Vast Winter Count - The Native American West before Lewis and Clark (Hardcover, New)
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One Vast Winter Count - The Native American West before Lewis and Clark (Hardcover, New)
Series: History of the American West
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This magnificent, sweeping account traces the histories of the
Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of
years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century. Colin G.
Calloway depicts Indian country west of the Appalachians to the
Pacific, with emphasis on conflict and change. With broad and
incisive strokes Calloway's narrative includes: the first
inhabitants and their early pursuit of big-game animals; the
diffusion of corn and how it transformed American Indian life; the
Spanish invasion and Indian resistance to Spanish colonialism;
French-Indian relations in the heart of the continent; the
diffusion of horses and horse culture; the collision of rival
European empires and the experiences of Indian peoples whose
homelands became imperial borderlands; and the dramatic events
between the American Revolution and the arrival of Lewis and Clark.
The account ends as a new American nation emerged independent of
the British Empire, took over the trans-Mississippi West, and began
to expand its own empire based on the concept of liberty and the
acquisition of Indian land. One Vast Winter Count offers a new look
at the early history of the region-a blending of ethnohistory,
colonial history, and frontier history. It features Native voices
and perspectives; a masterful, fluid integration of a wide range of
oral and archival sources from across the West; a dynamic
reconstruction of cultural histories; and balanced consideration of
controversial subjects and issues. Calloway offers an unparalleled
glimpse at the lives of generations of Native peoples in a western
land soon to be overrun. Colin G. Calloway is a professor of
history, Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies, and
chair of the Native American Studies program at Dartmouth College.
He is the coeditor of Germans and Indians: Fantasies, Projections,
Encounters (Nebraska 2002) and the author of many publications
including New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking
of Early America.
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