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Highlighting critical issues in the mid-eighteenth-century struggles between and among Indians and colonial empires, The Lancaster Treaty of 1744 provides a close look at colonial-Indian relations in North America.

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Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

List of Illustrations

PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: INDIANS, COLONISTS, AND TREATIES

Major Figures in the Lancaster Treaty

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, June 26, 1977: An American History Lesson

Indians and Other Early Americans

The Iroquois League: Its History and Diplomacy

Treaties Between Indians and Colonists

Crisis and Contempt: The Hard Road to Lancaster

The 1744 Lancaster Treaty

Treaty Minutes as Historical Texts

The Aftermath of the Lancaster Treaty

PART TWO. THE DOCUMENT

A Note About the Text

A Treaty Held at the Town of Lancaster, In PennsylvaniaÉin June 1744, printed and sold by Benjamin Franklin

PART THREE. RELATED DOCUMENTS

1. Benjamin West, Indians Giving a Talk to Colonel Bouquet in a Conference, 1766

2. John Bartram, Observations on a Visit to Onondaga, July–August 1743

3. Conrad Weiser, Report on the Council Proceedings at Onondaga, July-August 1743

4. Witham Marshe, Journal of the Treaty Held with the Six Nations, June–July 1744

Appendixes

A Chronology of Events Related to the Lancaster Treaty of 1744 (c. 1300–1784)

Questions for Consideration

Selected Bibliography

Index

Authors

James H. Merrell

James Merrell (PhD, The Johns Hopkins University) is Lucy Maynard Salmon Professor of History at Vassar College. An award-winning scholar of American Indian history, Merrell has published a number of books and articles, including Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier (1999), winner of the 2000 Bancroft Prize for history and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and The Indians’ New World: Catawbas and their Neighbors From European Contact through the Era of Removal (1989), winner in 1990 of the Bancroft Prize, the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, and the Merle Curti Award.


Highlighting critical issues in the mid-eighteenth-century struggles between and among Indians and colonial empires, The Lancaster Treaty of 1744 provides a close look at colonial-Indian relations in North America.

E-book

Read online (or offline) with all the highlighting and notetaking tools you need to be successful in this course.

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Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

List of Illustrations

PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: INDIANS, COLONISTS, AND TREATIES

Major Figures in the Lancaster Treaty

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, June 26, 1977: An American History Lesson

Indians and Other Early Americans

The Iroquois League: Its History and Diplomacy

Treaties Between Indians and Colonists

Crisis and Contempt: The Hard Road to Lancaster

The 1744 Lancaster Treaty

Treaty Minutes as Historical Texts

The Aftermath of the Lancaster Treaty

PART TWO. THE DOCUMENT

A Note About the Text

A Treaty Held at the Town of Lancaster, In PennsylvaniaÉin June 1744, printed and sold by Benjamin Franklin

PART THREE. RELATED DOCUMENTS

1. Benjamin West, Indians Giving a Talk to Colonel Bouquet in a Conference, 1766

2. John Bartram, Observations on a Visit to Onondaga, July–August 1743

3. Conrad Weiser, Report on the Council Proceedings at Onondaga, July-August 1743

4. Witham Marshe, Journal of the Treaty Held with the Six Nations, June–July 1744

Appendixes

A Chronology of Events Related to the Lancaster Treaty of 1744 (c. 1300–1784)

Questions for Consideration

Selected Bibliography

Index

James H. Merrell

James Merrell (PhD, The Johns Hopkins University) is Lucy Maynard Salmon Professor of History at Vassar College. An award-winning scholar of American Indian history, Merrell has published a number of books and articles, including Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier (1999), winner of the 2000 Bancroft Prize for history and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and The Indians’ New World: Catawbas and their Neighbors From European Contact through the Era of Removal (1989), winner in 1990 of the Bancroft Prize, the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, and the Merle Curti Award.


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