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Tribal, violent, riven with fierce and competing loyalties, the American Revolution as told through the Oneida Indians, the only Iroquois Nation to side with the rebels, shatters the old story of a contest of ideas punctuated by premodern set-piece warfare pitting patriotic colonists against British Redcoats. With new detail and…
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Ever since researching and writing my master’s thesis in the 1960s on the treatment of indigenous people in high school American History textbooks, I have tried very hard to learn more about the diverse indigenous nations and how they have been involved and treated in American History.
The title of the book really grabbed me. History texts had always looked at indigenous people as obstacles to national growth, but here was a book about people who were our allies in the war for independence, but they had then been forgotten when settlers wanted their land. The stories of individual people…
From William's list on American Revolution in New York.
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