History of American Indians and the United States

The Middle Ground

Dr. Kane

mkane2@albany.edu Humanities 109 | MWF 9:20 - 10:15 AM

Office Hrs: M 10:20 - 11:20 & F 1:30 - 3:30

Social Science 60S

Wednesday, October 25

coming up

  • Objects paper Nov 6
  • email your images by Nov 5 - mini presentations in class
  • reading for Friday loads slow, contains some outdated language

today's class

  • Preston
  • Kenny
  • how did trade & diplomacy work?
  • interpreting objects, again

where are we?

  • Enganglement period
  • fur trade - 1600-1800
  • French & Indian War - 1754-1763
  • Pontiac's War - 1762-1763
  • American period
  • American Revolution - 1774-1783
  • Treaty of Canandaigua 1794
  • Removal era 1812-1848

Preston

  • how does Preston characterize the relationship between Germans & Iroquois?
  • how was this relationship exceptional?

Kenny

  • 66 Entering the Village & 97 Molly
  • 79 Croghan
  • 82 Johnson
  • 116 Molly
  • 138 Joseph Brant, 162 Red Jacket
  • 167 What the Chroniclers did not Record

trade & the middle ground

  • mutually agreed upon rituals of exchange
  • trade is diplomacy and diplomacy is trade
  • integration of captives, adoptees, and partners
  • role of free & enslaved African Americans (The Sunfish)
  • male mediators, female convertors
barclay
barclay
iroquois
iroquois
acctbk
acctbk
anon
anon

who is dependent on who?

beaver
beaver

who is dependent on who?

stround
stround
cloth
cloth

ethics of research

  • does the research harm or benefit the community with which you're working?
  • who gets to control the direction of research?
  • Native American Graves and Repatriation Act 1990

interpreting the fur trade

  • women as major consumers & traders
  • European dependence on Native allies
  • Native integration of European goods - dependence or not?