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“daniel r whitcomb”

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  • The Makah: Whaling, Treaties, and the Fight for the Sea

    by Daniel R. Whitcomb ...
    Before a harpooner stood in the bow of a Makah whaling canoe, he spent years getting ready. He fasted. He bathed in cold water at dawn and scrubbed himself with branches until his skin stung. He prayed, and he learned from the elders what a whale is and what a hunter owes it. The canoe itself, cedar planks steamed and stitched with spruce root, existed for one purpose: to carry a crew of eight ... Read more

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  • The Pawnee: Earth Lodges, the Stars, and the Scouts

    by Daniel R. Whitcomb ...
    Why did every Pawnee earth lodge open to the east? Because the bundles were opened facing the rising sun, and because the Morning Star, the great light that climbs the sky before dawn, was the power that had brought the corn, the people and the world itself out of the dark. A man who built his doorway facing west was telling his neighbors something about himself, and they would not like what it ... Read more

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  • Fallen Timbers: Little Turtle, St. Clair, and the Fight for Ohio

    by Daniel R. Whitcomb ...
    From Kekionga, where the St. Joseph and the St. Marys join to make the Maumee, a canoe could reach Lake Erie, Detroit and Albany, or the Wabash, the Mississippi and New Orleans. The Myaamia, the Miami, had built their principal town at that hinge on purpose. In the middle of the eighteenth century it was one of the busiest places between the Great Lakes and the Ohio, a town of bark lodges and ... Read more

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  • Sand Creek: The Colorado War, 1851-1865

    by Daniel R. Whitcomb ...
    A dog could drag eighty pounds. A horse could drag three hundred and cover twenty miles before breakfast. For a century the Tsitsistas, the Cheyenne, and their Arapaho allies had been remaking their lives around that difference, and by the 1840s the country between the Platte and the Arkansas was theirs: camps of hundreds strung along the Smoky Hill, horse herds in the thousands, and buffalo robes ... Read more

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  • The Black Hawk War: The Last War East of the Mississippi

    by Daniel R. Whitcomb ...
    American treaty makers spent forty years hunting for "the chief" of the Sauk and never found him. A Sauk civil chief could only persuade, a war leader could lead only the young men who chose to follow, and the fields, the lodges and the stored corn belonged to the women. So when a few Sauk and Meskwaki men signed away the Rock River country at St. Louis in 1804, many at Saukenuk, a town of some ... Read more

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  • The Long Hunter and the Shawnee Towns: Simon Kenton's Kentucky War

    by Daniel R. Whitcomb ...
    Simon Butler was not his real name. The young scout who watched the woods around Boone's Kentucky settlements in the 1770s was Simon Kenton, and in 1771, still in his teens, he had run from Fauquier County, Virginia, believing he had killed a man in a fight over a girl. He crossed the Alleghenies on foot with no horse, no money and no plan beyond getting far enough west that no sheriff would ... Read more

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  • The School on the Prairie: Carlisle and the War on Native Childhood

    by Daniel R. Whitcomb ...
    The girl counted telegraph poles because there was nothing else to count. For two days the train had carried her east, past Chicago and into the small, fenced, rain-green farm country of Pennsylvania. The only name she had left was the one a stranger had written in a book in a tent on the Rosebud, sounding out her father's name and flattening it to fit on a line.She was one of eighty-two Lakota ... Read more

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  • Crazy Horse and the End of Lakota Freedom

    by Daniel R. Whitcomb ...
    In the last week of May 1866, a train of sixty or seventy wagons came grinding north out of the Platte bottomlands onto the new Bozeman Road, bound for the Montana gold camps, while Lakota men lay flat in the grass on the ridges above and counted them. The road cut straight through the Powder River country, the best buffalo range left on the northern Plains. That same spring Colonel Henry ... Read more

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  • The Yakama War and the Puget Sound War: Kamiakin, Leschi, and the Fight for the Northwest

    by Daniel R. Whitcomb ...
    Kamiakin had sat in councils all his life, and he knew how they went: days of talk, gifts and argument before anything was settled. What waited on the flat by the Walla Walla River in May 1855 was something else. Governor Isaac Stevens, thirty-seven years old and in a hurry, had brought beef, flour, blankets, tobacco and a treaty already written. By the end of the first week more than a thousand ... Read more

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  • Seven Cargoes: How Corn, Horses, and Disease Remade Native America

    by Daniel R. Whitcomb ...
    The horses came ashore swimming. Late in 1493, the men of Columbus's second fleet, seventeen ships and some twelve hundred men, drove them down timber ramps into the surf off Hispaniola and let them flounder to the beach, while Taino villagers who had no word for an animal that could carry a man looked on in silence. Behind the horses came cattle, pigs that would eat anything, wheat seed, ... Read more

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  • The Medicine Line: Native Nations and the U.S.-Canada Border

    by Daniel R. Whitcomb ...
    No Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe or Wabanaki delegate sat at the table in Paris on September 3, 1783, when American and British diplomats ended a war by drawing a boundary through the middle of their world. It ran through the Great Lakes to the Lake of the Woods and then due west toward a Mississippi that did not lie where the negotiators' map put it. Later treaties carried it west along the forty ... Read more

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  • The Great Law of Peace: The Iroquois Confederacy and the Making of the Northeast

    by Daniel R. Whitcomb ...
    The names come one at a time: a hunting party found in a clearing with its bows broken, a woman carried off, a man cut down among the cattails. In the Mohawk Valley some six centuries ago, each name is a debt. A grieving family can close the wound only with a captive, adopted into the dead man's place or killed to stand in for him, and every captive taken opens a new wound in a village on the far ... Read more

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