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The Indian World of George Washington - The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation (Paperback)
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The Indian World of George Washington - The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation (Paperback)
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George Washington's place in the foundations of the Republic
remains unrivalled. His life story-from his beginnings as a
surveyor and farmer, to colonial soldier in the Virginia Regiment,
leader of the Patriot cause, commander of the Continental Army, and
finally first president of the United States-reflects the narrative
of the nation he guided into existence. There is, rightfully, no
more chronicled figure. Yet American history has largely forgotten
what Washington himself knew clearly: that the new Republic's fate
depended less on grand rhetoric of independence and self-governance
and more on land-Indian land. Colin G. Calloway's biography of the
greatest founding father reveals in full the relationship between
Washington and the Native leaders he dealt with intimately across
the decades: Shingas, Tanaghrisson, Guyasuta, Attakullakulla,
Bloody Fellow, Joseph Brant, Cornplanter, Red Jacket, and Little
Turtle, among many others. Using the prism of Washington's life to
bring focus to these figures and the tribes they represented-the
Iroquois Confederacy, Lenape, Miami, Creek, Delaware-Calloway
reveals how central their role truly was in Washington's, and
therefore the nation's, foundational narrative. Calloway gives the
First Americans their due, revealing the full extent and complexity
of the relationships between the man who rose to become the
nation's most powerful figure and those whose power and dominion
declined in almost equal degree during his lifetime. His book
invites us to look at America's origins in a new light. The Indian
World of George Washington is a brilliant portrait of both the most
revered man in American history and those whose story during the
tumultuous century in which the country was formed has, until now,
been only partially told.
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