Peoples of the River Valleys : : The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians / / Amy C. Schutt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
• VerfasserIn: Schutt, Amy C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Early American Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 14 illus.

Seventeenth-century Indians from the Delaware and lower Hudson valleys organized their lives around small-scale groupings of kin and communities. Living through epidemics, warfare, economic change, and physical dispossession, survivors from these peoples came together in new locations, especially th...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Prologue "Sachems from nine different places"
• Chapter 1. Communities and Kin
• Chapter 2. Reorganizations and Relationships in the Hudson and Delaware Valleys, 1609-82
• 'He knew the best how to order them'
• Chapter 3. Sharing Lands and Asserting Rights in the Face of Pennsylvania's Expansion, 1682-1742
• Chapter 4. Networks, Alliances, and Power, 1742-65
• "All the people which inhabit this Continent"
• Chapter 5. Defining Delawares, 1765-74
• Chapter 6. Striving for Unity with Diversity, 1768-83
• Epilogue. "Sit down by us as a nation"
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Index
• Acknowledgments