Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of North America
RICHTER, Daniel K.
From Bluebird Books (RMABA, IOBA), Littleton, CO, U.S.A.
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A first edition of Daniel K. Richter's history of the United States from the perspective of the aboriginal Indian people who resided there when Europeans started arriving. With illustrations scattered throughout the text and four maps. With extensive endnotes and index. --- In yellow paper-covered boards backed in black cloth with spine titling in gilt. Volume wrapped in jacket with Robert Weir's painting "The Landing of Henry Hudson" to front panel. --- With prior owner's signature to front free endpaper, and perhaps as many as 5 leaves with pencilings, otherwise a tightly-bound, sound copy. Unpriced jacket has been exposed to sunlight, causing purplish discoloration, else without significant damages and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector (which has slight rubbing).; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; x, (2), 317 pages. Seller Inventory # 87146
Bibliographic Details
Title: Facing East from Indian Country: A Native ...
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition.
About this title
In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers.
Or so the story usually goes. Yet, for three centuries after Columbus, Native people controlled most of eastern North America and profoundly shaped its destiny. In Facing East from Indian Country, Daniel K. Richter keeps Native people center-stage throughout the story of the origins of the United States.
Viewed from Indian country, the sixteenth century was an era in which Native people discovered Europeans and struggled to make sense of a new world. Well into the seventeenth century, the most profound challenges to Indian life came less from the arrival of a relative handful of European colonists than from the biological, economic, and environmental forces the newcomers unleashed. Drawing upon their own traditions, Indian communities reinvented themselves and carved out a place in a world dominated by transatlantic European empires. In 1776, however, when some of Britain's colonists rebelled against that imperial world, they overturned the system that had made Euro-American and Native coexistence possible. Eastern North America only ceased to be an Indian country because the revolutionaries denied the continent's first peoples a place in the nation they were creating.
In rediscovering early America as Indian country, Richter employs the historian's craft to challenge cherished assumptions about times and places we thought we knew well, revealing Native American experiences at the core of the nation's birth and identity.
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