Description
Book SynopsisAn evocative history of long frustration and ultimate failure, A Spirited Resistance tells of a creative people, whose insights, magic, and ritual add a much-needed dimension to our understanding of the American Indian.
Trade ReviewAngrily reject[s] the Eurocentric assumptions of works that center on big-chief-hero or on isolated tribes... [and] departs from such atomized approaches to describe the attempt to combat colonialism through a religiously charged, pan-Indian militant movement... [Dowd] is sophisticated and exceptionally self-aware, recognizing how indebted even his counter-history is to European assumptions, and he tells an important and persuasive story. -- James R. Kincaid New York Times Book Review
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Power
Chapter 2. The Indians' Great Awakening, 1745 - 1775
Chapter 3. Revolutionary Alliances, 1775 - 1783
Chapter 4. Neutrality, A World Too Narrow, 1775 - 1781
Chapter 5. A Spirit of Unity, 1783 - 1794
Chapter 6. Republican Interlude
Chapter 7. Renewing Sacred Power in the North
Chapter 8. Conflict in the South
Chapter 9. Renewing Sacred Power in the South
Afterword: A Conflict of Memory
Abbreviations
Notes
Index
