Friends and enemies in Penn's Woods
Subtitle: Indians, colonists, and the racial construction of Pennsylvania
By: edited by William A. Pencak and Daniel K. Richter.
Contributors: Pencak, William, 1951-; Richter, Daniel K.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Pennsylvania; Intercultural communication -- Pennsylvania -- History; Culture conflict -- Pennsylvania -- History; Colonists -- Pennsylvania -- History; Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania -- History; Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania -- Government relations; Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Pennsylvania -- Race relations; Pennsylvania -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Peoples in conversation. New Sweden, natives, and nature / Michael Dean Mackintosh; title: Colonialism and the discursive antecedents of Penn's treaty with the Indians / James O'Neil Spady; title: Imagining peace in Quaker and Native American dream stories / Carla Gerona; title: 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; title: The death of Sawantaeny and the problem of justice on the frontier / John Smolenski; title: Justice, retribution, and the case of John Toby / Louis M. Waddell; title: The diplomatic career of Canasatego / William A. Starna. III. Toward a white Pennsylvania.  Delawares and Pennsylvanians after the Walking Purchase / Steven C. Harper; title: Squatters, Indians, proprietary government, and land in the Susquehanna Valley / David L. Preston; title: Metonymy, violence, patriarchy, and the Paxton boys / Krista Camenzind; title: "Real" Indians, "white" Indians, and the contest for the Wyoming Valley / Paul Moyer; title: Whiteness and warfare on a revolutionary frontier / Gregory T. Knouff.