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Friends and enemies in Penn's Woods : Indians, colonists, and the racial construction of Pennsylvania
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Friends and enemies in Penn's Woods : Indians, colonists, and the racial construction of Pennsylvania

Author: William Pencak; Daniel K Richter
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2004.
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: William Pencak; Daniel K Richter
ISBN: 0271023848 9780271023847 0271023856 9780271023854
OCLC Number: 54817208
Description: xxi, 336 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: I. Peoples in conversation. New Sweden, natives, and nature / Michael Dean Mackintosh -- Colonialism and the discursive antecedents of Penn's treaty with the Indians / James O'Neil Spady -- Imagining peace in Quaker and Native American dream stories / Carla Gerona -- Indian, metis, and Euro-American women on multiple frontiers / Alison Duncan Hirsch. II. Fragile structures of coexistence. Female relationships and intercultural bonds in Moravian Indian missions / Amy C. Schutt -- The death of Sawantaeny and the problem of justice on the frontier / John Smolenski -- Justice, retribution, and the case of John Toby / Louis M. Waddell -- The diplomatic career of Canasatego / William A. Starna. III. Toward a white Pennsylvania. Delawares and Pennsylvanians after the Walking Purchase / Steven C. Harper -- Squatters, Indians, proprietary government, and land in the Susquehanna Valley / David L. Preston -- Metonymy, violence, patriarchy, and the Paxton boys / Krista Camenzind -- "Real" Indians, "white" Indians, and the contest for the Wyoming Valley / Paul Moyer -- Whiteness and warfare on a revolutionary frontier / Gregory T. Knouff.
Responsibility: edited by William A. Pencak and Daniel K. Richter.
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