The Worlds the Shawnees Made, Stephen Warren
The Worlds the Shawnees Made, Stephen Warren
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The Worlds the Shawnees Made
Migration and Violence in Early America

Author: Stephen Warren

Narrator: Tom Weiner

Unabridged: 10 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/15/2014

Categories: Nonfiction, History

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Synopsis

In 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British, We have always been the frontier. Their statement challenges an oft-held belief that American Indians derive their unique identities from longstanding ties to native lands. By tracking Shawnee people and migrations from 1400 to 1754, Stephen Warren illustrates how Shawnees made a life for themselves at the crossroads of empires and competing tribes, embracing mobility and often moving willingly toward violent borderlands. By the middle of the eighteenth century, the Shawnees ranged over the eastern half of North America and used their knowledge to foster notions of pan-Indian identity that shaped relations between Native Americans and settlers in the revolutionary era and beyond. Warrens deft analysis makes clear that Shawnees were not anomalous among native peoples east of the Mississippi. Through migration, they and their neighbors adapted to disease, warfare, and dislocation by interacting with colonizers as slavers, mercenaries, guides, and traders. These adaptations enabled them to preserve their cultural identities and resist coalescence without forsaking their linguistic and religious traditions.

About Stephen Warren

Stephen Warren is
associate professor of history at Augustana College and was a historian for the
PBS documentary We Shall Remain,
which aired in 2009.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Christopher on February 15, 2022

An intriguing ethnographic study of one of the more versatile and transient Native American Tribes. Warren's 2013 "The Worlds the Shawnees Made" is an interesting, if somewhat dry for the novice, approach to the Shawnee peoples covering about 350 years. While many native tribes were tied to specific......more

Goodreads review by Paul on April 19, 2023

For some reason native American history and culture always really appeals to me, but I'm often quite disappointed in the actual execution of these histories. The main thing I took away from this book was that the Shawnee seems more like a bit of a collection of tribes rather than a tribe itself, and......more

Goodreads review by Logan on June 07, 2022

It's pretty good overview of the Shawnee in broad strokes. Basically they started in illinois, then moved to ohio valley, and then went all over the place. Cause there were so many of them in different places, they ended up being good guides and interpreters as well as diplomats, and helped make var......more

Goodreads review by Bonnie on February 15, 2019

Warren challenges traditional narratives of Iroquoian land claims in the North American woodlands. A fascinating read.......more

Goodreads review by Jay on October 01, 2015

I found this a somewhat interesting subject. Warren tells what ends up being a quite complex story, covering the place of the Shawnee among, and sometimes within, the other tribes. Making this a very complex story was that the Shawnee consisted of multiple tribes that migrated almost constantly, and......more