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The Indian World of George Washington - The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation (Hardcover)
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The Indian World of George Washington - The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation (Hardcover)
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George Washington dominates the narrative of the nation's birth,
yet American history has largely forgotten what he knew: that the
country's fate depended less on grand rhetorical statements of
independence and self-governance than on land-Indian land. While
other histories have overlooked the central importance of Indian
power during the country's formative years, Colin G. Calloway here
gives Native American leaders their due, revealing the relationship
between the man who rose to become the most powerful figure in his
country and the Native tribes whose dominion he usurped. In this
sweeping new biography, Calloway uses the prism of Washington's
life to bring focus to the great Native leaders of his
time-Shingas, Tanaghrisson, Bloody Fellow, Joseph Brant, Red
Jacket, Little Turtle-and the tribes they represented: the Iroquois
Confederacy, Lenape, Miami, Creek, Delaware; in the process, he
returns them to their rightful place in the story of America's
founding. The Indian World of George Washington spans decades of
Native American leaders' interaction with Washington, from his
early days as surveyor of Indian lands, to his military career
against both the French and the British, to his presidency, when he
dealt with Native Americans as a head of state would with a foreign
power, using every means of diplomacy and persuasion to fulfill the
new republic's destiny by appropriating their land. By the end of
his life, Washington knew more than anyone else in America about
the frontier and its significance to the future of his country. The
Indian World of George Washington offers a fresh portrait of the
most revered American and the Native Americans whose story has been
only partially told. Calloway's biography invites us to look again
at the story of America's beginnings and see the country in a whole
new light.
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