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A Description of New Netherland (Paperback)
Adriaen Van Der Donck; Edited by Charles T. Gehring, William A. Starna; Translated by Diederik Willem Goedhuys; Foreword by Russell Shorto
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This edition of "A Description of New Netherland" provides the
first complete and accurate English-language translation of an
essential first-hand account of the lives and world of Dutch
colonists and northeastern Native communities in the seventeenth
century. Adriaen van der Donck, a graduate of Leiden University in
the 1640s, became the law enforcement officer for the Dutch
patroonship of Rensselaerswijck, located along the upper Hudson
River. His position enabled him to interact extensively with Dutch
colonists and the local Algonquians and Iroquoians. An astute
observer, detailed recorder, and accessible writer, Van der Donck
was ideally situated to write about his experiences and the natural
and cultural worlds around him.
Van der Donck's "Beschryvinge van Nieuw-Nederlant" was first
published in 1655 and then expanded in 1656. An inaccurate and
abbreviated English translation appeared in 1841 and was reprinted
in 1968. This new volume features an accurate, polished translation
by Diederik Willem Goedhuys and includes all the material from the
original 1655 and 1656 editions. The result is an indispensable
first-hand account with enduring value to historians,
ethnohistorians, and anthropologists.
"Gideon's People" is the story of an American Indian community in
the Housatonic Valley of northwestern Connecticut. It is based on
some three decades of nearly uninterrupted German-language diaries
and allied records kept by the Moravian missionaries who had joined
the Indians at a place called Pachgatgoch, later Schaghticoke. It
is supplemented by colonial records and regional political, social,
and religious histories and ethnographies. As such, it represents
the only comprehensive, thoroughly contextualized description of a
Native people in southern New England and adjacent eastern New York
for the mid-eighteenth century.
The Moravians' diaries report on the day-to-day activities in the
community, including house-building, the production of material
goods, hunting, fishing, and farming. We are told of marriages,
births, deaths, disease, and the calamity of alcohol abuse. The
unavoidable interactions with surrounding Indians and close-by
colonial farmers and townspeople are offered in detail, along with
the sometimes contentious relations with local and colonial
authorities. And there is the omnipresence of the missionaries'
religious message to the Indians, frequently accepted and then
tested by the inevitable temptations and, more than once, spurned.
But we also learn of the struggles of the Moravians to feed and
clothe themselves at a distance from their congregation in
Bethlehem and their endeavors, often marked by conflict and deep
personal pain, to lead their Native flock to the Lamb.
The landmark Oneida Supreme Court decisions of 1974 and 1985
testify to the fact that the Iroquois' day in court has finally
arrived. Although Indian petitions to regain their shrinking land
base have generally caught the non- Indian public by surprise, land
rights have been an issue for the Iroquois for the past two-hundred
years. This book provides a balanced appraisal of the land claims
made by several of the Iroquois tribes. By drawing upon the
viewpoints of those who have a direct stake in the land claims'
outcome-Iroquois, attorneys representing or defending against the
claims, expert witnesses-and those who have extensive knowledge of
the controversy, this book reveals the complexity of the issues.
While there is no easy way to resolve these claims, the uniquely
qualified contributors stress that a negotiated settlement is
preferable to a litigated one. The fact that these cases have had
to be brought to court, even to the Supreme Court, is evidence of
the seriousness of the issues involved. This timely book strikes a
balance among the various parties to the land disputes, proving an
invaluable resource to academics, students, legal professionals,
policymakers, and the public at large.
For centuries the history of the Mohawk Valley has been shaped by
the complex relationships among the valley's native inhabitants,
the Mohawk Indians, and its colonists, starting with the Dutch. In
Mohawk Country collects for the first time the principal
documentary narratives that reveal the full scope of this
Mohawk-settler interaction. Some of the sources have never before
been translated into English, and several have not been previously
published. Of those works that had been published, nearly all are
out of print. The Mohawk location near Albany, New York put them at
the center of transactions between the Iroquois and European
colonists. (The Mohawk were one of the constituent nations within
the League of the Iroquois.) These narratives-written by Dutch
merchants, French Jesuit missionaries, English soldiers, romantic
European travelers, and other literate observers-provide often
biased but always fascinating accounts of the Mohawk and their
valley. The reader is treated to over two centuries of history,
starting with the arrival of the Dutch in the early seventeenth
century to the planning of the Erie Canal in the early nineteenth
century. These records bring to life the rapid changes experienced
by both the Mohawk and their European neighbors. Wars, catastrophic
epidemics, and the diplomacy of nearly two centuries are all well
represented in this volume. Fascinating cultural differences are
also unearthed: the French, for example, dealt with the Mohawk much
differently than the Dutch or the English. Just as importantly,
these writings reveal-from the unique perspectives of the
observer-the Mohawk's struggle to retain their culture in the midst
of evolving political, social, and physical environments.
This history of the Mahicans begins with the appearance of
Europeans on the Hudson River in 1609 and ends with the removal of
these Native people to Wisconsin in the 1830s. Marshaling the
methods of history, ethnology, and archaeology, William A. Starna
describes as comprehensively as the sources allow the Mahicans
while in their Hudson and Housatonic Valley homeland; after their
consolidation at the praying town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts;
and following their move to Oneida country in central New York at
the end of the Revolution and their migration west. The emphasis
throughout this book is on describing and placing into historical
context Mahican relations with surrounding Native groups: the
Munsees of the lower Hudson, eastern Iroquoians, and the St.
Lawrence and New England Algonquians. Starna also examines the
Mahicans' interactions with Dutch, English, and French interlopers.
The first and most transformative of these encounters was with the
Dutch and the trade in furs, which ushered in culture change and
the loss of Mahican lands. The Dutch presence, along with the new
economy, worked to unsettle political alliances in the region that,
while leading to new alignments, often engendered rivalries and
war. The result is an outstanding examination of the historical
record that will become the definitive work on the Mahican people
from the colonial period to the Removal Era.
William N. Fenton's contributions to the understanding of the
cultures and histories of the Iroquois are formidable. Fenton
grounded his studies in decades of fieldwork among the Senecas, an
encyclopedic knowledge of pertinent historical accounts, a keen
appreciation for interpretive theory and practice in ethnohistory
and anthropology, and an enduring, generous character. "William
Fenton: Selected Writings" brings together for the first time
Fenton's most influential writings on the Iroquois and
anthropology, written across nearly six decades. This volume
includes Fenton's classic studies of such key issues as Iroquois
folklore, factionalism, and the repatriation of material culture;
discussions of theory and practice and the methodology of
"upstreaming"; obituaries of colleagues and reviews of other
studies of the Iroquois; and summaries of the early Conferences on
Iroquois Research. This collection reveals much about the world of
the Iroquois, past and present, as well as the career and
accomplishments of Fenton himself.
Iroquois Journey is the warm and illuminating memoir of William N.
Fenton (1908-2005), a leading scholar who shaped Iroquois studies
and modern anthropology in America. The memoir reveals the
ambitions and struggles of the man and the many accomplishments of
the anthropologist, the complex and sometimes volatile milieu of
Native-white relations in upstate New York in the twentieth
century, and key theoretical and methodological developments in
American anthropology. Fenton's memoir, completed shortly before
his death, takes us from his ancestors' lives in the Conewango
Valley in western New York to his education at Yale. It affords
valuable insights into the decades of his celebrated fieldwork
among the Senecas, his distinguished scholarship at the Bureau of
American Ethnology in Washington, DC, and his research at the New
York State Museum in Albany. Offering portraits of legendary
scholars he encountered and enriched through wonderful personal
anecdotes, Fenton's memoir is a testament to the importance of
anthropology and a reminder of how much the field has changed over
the years.
"Iroquois Journey" is the warm and illuminating memoir of William
N. Fenton (1908-2005), a leading scholar who shaped Iroquois
studies and modern anthropology in America. The memoir reveals the
ambitions and struggles of the man and the many accomplishments of
the anthropologist, the complex and sometimes volatile milieu of
Native-white relations in upstate New York in the twentieth
century, and key theoretical and methodological developments in
American anthropology. Fenton's memoir, completed shortly before
his death, takes us from his ancestors' lives in the Conewango
Valley in western New York to his education at Yale. It affords
valuable insights into the decades of his celebrated fieldwork
among the Senecas, his distinguished scholarship at the Bureau of
American Ethnology in Washington, DC, and his research at the New
York State Museum in Albany. Offering portraits of legendary
scholars he encountered and enriched through wonderful personal
anecdotes, Fenton's memoir is a testament to the importance of
anthropology and a reminder of how much the field has changed over
the years.
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