War
under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire
by Gregory Evans Dowd
Book Description: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ceded much of the continent
east of the Mississippi to Great Britain, a claim which the Indian nations
of the Great Lakes, who suddenly found themselves under British rule, considered
outrageous. Unlike the French, with whom Great Lakes Indians had formed
an alliance of convenience, the British entered the upper Great Lakes in
a spirit of conquest. British officers on the frontier keenly felt the
need to assert their assumed superiority over both Native Americans and
European settlers. At the same time, Indian leaders expected appropriate
tokens of British regard, gifts the British refused to give. It is this
issue of respect that, according to Gregory Dowd, lies at the root of the
war the Ottawa chief Pontiac and his alliance of Great Lakes Indians waged
on the British Empire between 1763 and 1767.
In War under Heaven, Dowd boldly reinterprets the causes and consequences
of Pontiac's War. Where previous Anglocentric histories have ascribed this
dramatic uprising to disputes over trade and land, this groundbreaking
work traces the conflict back to status: both the low regard in which the
British held the Indians and the concern among Native American leaders
about their people's standing--and their sovereignty--in the eyes of the
British. Pontiac's War also embodied a clash of world views, and Dowd examines
the central role that Indian cultural practices and beliefs played in the
conflict, explores the political and military culture of the British Empire
which informed the attitudes its servants had toward Indians, provides
deft and insightful portraits of Pontiac and his British adversaries, and
offers a detailed analysis of the military and diplomatic strategies of
both sides. Imaginatively conceived and compellingly told, War under Heaven
redefines our understanding of Anglo-Indian relations in the colonial period.
Hardcover from Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Book Published: December, 2002
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by Melissa A. Pflug, Lee Irwin
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Book Published: March, 1998
The
Ottawa (Native American People)
by Kathi Howes, Katherine Ace, Rourke Publishing Group, Barbara A.
McCall
Library Binding from The Rourke Book Company, Inc.
Book Published: December, 1992
Pontiac
and the Indian Uprising (Great Lakes Books)
by Howard Henry Peckham
Paperback from Wayne State Univ Pr (T)
Book Published: February, 1994
Special Order
Potawatomi Indians of Michigan, 1843-1904, Including some Ottawa
and Chippewa, 1843-1866, and Potawatomi of Indiana, 1869 and 1885
by R. Lantz
Listed under Native Americans
Yellowstone
Kelly: Gentleman and Scout (Frontier Library (Ottawa, Ill.).)
by Peter Bowen
Hardcover from Jameson Books
Book Published: April, 1988
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Warrior the Story of Pontiac (Famous American Indian Leaders)
by Jill Wheeler, Paul Deegan, Liz Dodson
School & Library Binding from Abdo & Daughters
Book Published: November, 1989
Special Order
"Haughty
Conquerors" : Amherst and the Great Indian Uprising of 1763
by William R. Nester
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Book Published: July, 2000
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of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan
by Andrew J. Blackbird
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