On Records

Andrew Newman

Description

Bridging the fields of indigenous, early American, memory, and media studies, On Records illuminates the problems of communication between cultures and across generations. Andrew Newman examines several controversial episodes in the historical narrative of the Delaware (Lenape) Indians, including the stories of their primordial migration to settle a homeland spanning the Delaware and Hudson Rivers, the arrival of the Dutch and the first colonial land fraud, William Penn’s founding of Pennsylvania with a Great Treaty of Peace, and the “infamous” 1737 Pennsylvania Walking Purchase.

As Newman demonstrates, the quest for ideal records—authentic, authoritative, and objective, anchored in the past yet intelligible to the present—has haunted historical actors and scholars alike. Yet without “proof,” how can we know what really happened? On Records articulates surprising connections among colonial documents, recorded oral traditions, and material and visual cultures. Its comprehensive, probing analysis of historical evidence yields a multifaceted understanding of events and reveals new insights into the divergent memories of a shared past.

Sujets

• Histoire
• USA
• Local history
• Indigenous peoples
• History of the Americas
• États-Unis

Informations

• Publié par: Nebraska
• Date de parution: 01 décembre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780803244917
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 9 Mo

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On Records

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Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory andrew newman

University of Nebraska Press : Lincoln and London

© 2012 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska

Material from chapter 1 was previously published as “The Walam Olum: An Indigenous Apocrypha and Its Readers,” American Literary History22, no. 1 (2010): 26–56. A version of chapter 2 was originally published as “Mapping a Native Account of European Land Fraud,” in Early American Cartographies, edited by Martin Brückner, 248–75. Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Copyright © 2011 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Newman, Andrew. On records: Delaware Indians, colonists, and the media of history and memory / Andrew Newman. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn978-0-8032-3986-9 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Delaware Indians—Historiography. 2. Delaware Indians—Colonization. 3. Indians of North America—First contact with Europeans—Delaware. 4. Indians of North America—History—Colonial period, ca. 1600–1775. 5. Delaware—History—Colonial period, ca. 1600–1775. I. Title. e99.d2n49 2012 974.004'97345—dc23 2012012436

Set in Quadraat by Kim Essman. Designed by Ashley Muehlbauer.

For Mira and Reuben. And Levi.

Royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to the Lenape Native American Foundation.

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 List of Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix  Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1. Lenape Annals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 2. An Account of a Tradition. . . . . . . . . . 55 3. The Most Valuable Record . . . . . . . . . 95 4. Writings and Deeds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133  Afterword: A Chain of Memory . . . . 185  Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197  Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239  Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

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20–26, Book 3, from the1. Glyphs  “Wallam Olum” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37  2.Dido Cutting the Ox-Hide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85  3.Queen Dido founding Carthage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90  4. Hicks’sPenn’s Treaty with the Indians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98  5. West’sWilliam Penn’s Treaty with the Indians100. . . . . . . .  6.Penn’s Tree, with the City and Port of Philadelphia. . . . . . 106  7. Treaty Belt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124  8. Lenape wampum belts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126  9. Map presented to the Delawares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148  10. Historical map of the Walking Purchase . . . . . . . . . . 157  11. “Teedyuscung’s Speech” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173  12. Advertisement from thePennsylvania Gazette. . . . . . . 182

maps

 1. Occurrences of “Deceptive Land Purchase:  Ox Hide Measure” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74  2. Lehigh River and Tohickon and  Neshaminy Creeks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135