The European and the Indian

Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America

By: James Axtell

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Paperback | 17 March 2003

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Deals with the encounters of Europeans and Indians in colonial North America. A blending of history and anthropology, the author draws on a wide variety of sources, including archaeological findings, linguistics, accounts of colonists, art, and published scholarship.

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"A fine book."--Richard Ellis, Fort Lewis College "This important volume, coving the period 1600-1763, is the first in a trilogy which promises to provide a new and more sophisticated understanding of colonial ethno-history and Indian missions than we have ever had....Lively, informative, and convincing, this book explains how the Indians managed to sustain their ethnicity even when they adopted Christianity. Axtell is clearly one of our best ethnohistorians; this is a superb book."--Journal of American Academy of Religion "An intelligent, often innovative, and elegantly written work by a serious scholar who is quite intimate with the primary historical sources as well as the anthropological literature on the early Eastern Woodland peoples."--American Antiquity "Penetrating and lucid."--Francis Jennings, The Newberry Library Center for the History of the American Indian

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Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
The Ethnohistorical Approach	p. 1
Ethnohistory: an Historian's Viewpoint	p. 3
the Unkindest Cut, or Who Invented Scalping?	p. 16
From Indian to European	p. 37
the Invasion Within: the Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America	p. 39
Dr. Wheelock's Little Red School	p. 87
Last Rights: the Acculturation of Native Funerals in Colonial North America	p. 110
From European to Indian	p. 129
the Scholastic Philosophy of the Wilderness	p. 131
the White Indians of Colonial America	p. 168
Scalping: the Ethnohistory of a Moral Question	p. 207
American Encounter	p. 243
the English Colonial Impact on Indian Culture	p. 245
the Indian Impact on English Colonial Culture	p. 272
Notes	p. 317
Index	p. 387
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