History 162: Lectures 5 & 6

History 263: Readings in Frontier and Western History



History 162: Lectures 5 and 6
NATIONAL EXPANSION AND INDIAN NATIONALISM IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC

  1. The Long and Winding Road to the Trail of Tears
    1. Cherokee Removal and the Ethnic Cleansing of the Trans- Appalachian West
    2. Was Removal Inevitable?
    3. Indian Strategies to Counter Colonialism
      1. Migration
      2. Accommodation
      3. Incorporation
      4. Revitalization
      5. Confederation

  2. Wars of Empire, Independence, and Conquest
    1. British Victory and British Arrogance
    2. Revitalization and Resistance
      1. "Pontiac's Conspiracy" or Neolin's Visions
      2. The Empire Strikes Back
    3. The British Learn Their Lessons
      1. The Importance of Presents
      2. The Integrity of Indian Country

  3. Ohio Indians and the American Revolution
    1. Encroachments: Redrawing Boundaries Between Backcountry and Indian Country
    2. Dunmore's War (1774) and the Migration of Militants
    3. Murdering Neutrals
    4. Personal Independence and American Expansion

  4. The Contest of Confederacies
    1. The Dis-United States: National Policy and Western Discontent
    2. The Indian Confederacy at Its Apex
      1. Prophetic Revitalizations
      2. The Defeats of Harmar (1790) and St. Clair (1791)
      3. Rolling Back the Frontier
    3. The Republic Strikes Back

  5. Reform and Resistance
    1. Civilizing Missions
    2. Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa: The Revival of Pan-Indianism
    3. Division and Defeat: Invasion and Civil War in Creek Country
    4. Accommodation as Resistance: The Cherokees Struggle against Removal

  6. Racism and Removal
    1. Drawing the Color Line
    2. Justifying Removal


Visuals



Postcontact Religion


European Empires in North America


The Proclamation Line of 1763

The American Revolution & Lord Dunmore's War



Wars for the Old Northwest


The Trail of Tears