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Alessi, Joseph P. |
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Youngstown State University. Dept. of History. |
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2011-01-31T14:16:30Z |
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2019-09-08T02:27:38Z |
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2011-01-31T14:16:30Z |
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2019-09-08T02:27:38Z |
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1999 |
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1999 |
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b18380256 |
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http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ysu998680970 |
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http://jupiter.ysu.edu/record=b1838025 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/1989/6081 |
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xx, 173 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm. |
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Thesis (M.S.)--Youngstown State University, 1999. |
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves ). |
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dc.description.abstract |
Over the past forty years, socholars retold the story ofNative Americans and, unlike their predecesoors,
portrayed them as active participants in their own history. No longer viewed as being the measuring stick of
''white''progress or atrocities, historians placed the emphasis on Native Americans, their actions, their culture and
their active resistance to acculturation and assimilation through a unique process of accommodation. However
while they accomplished much, few historians attempted to explain how Native Americans influenced the
development of America and continued to regard the majority of their activities as methods of cultural resistance.
In an attempt to answer the question of'how Native Americans influenced the development of
America," this study examines the impact that Native American urban settlements had on the Anglo-American
westward movement and argues that Native Americans "spearheaded" and supported the Euro-American
settlement of the west. The focus of this work is on the Native American urban settlement of Logstown and its
relationship to the founding and building of Fort Pitt in the Ohio Valley during the mid-eighteenth century. To
show the relationship between Logstown and Fort Pitt, this study proposes a model of frontier development that
includes Native Americans and their urban settlements in the developmmt of America. The model expands and
synthesizes the works of Kenneth Lewis, Richard C. Wade and Francis Jennings and deals primarily with the
Eastern Native American group;who migrated west and settled the Ohio Valley, the Shawnee, Lenni-Lenape
(Delaware) and Mingo.
By applying this approach, this study discovered three things. First, Native American and Euro-American cultures
created similar types of preindustrial societies in regards to institutional development. Second,
Native Americans built frontier urban settlements that provided to be the catalyst behind the Euro-American
settlement of the west. Lastly, the early settlement of the west by Euro-Americans succeeded as a result of
Native American political, physical, military andi nformational support.
With this study, the author hopes to accomplish two main objectives. First, he wishes to present a study
of Native Americans that breaks from the traditional theme that permeates throughout historical scholarship in
regards to Native Americans, ''barriers and resisters to progress." And second, the author hopes to answer the
concerns of critics to new Indian and cultural history by presenting a broader interpretation of Native American
history that utilizes an ethnohistorical approach and addresses a more ''weighty question" of American history. |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Master's Theses no. 0641 |
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dc.subject.classification |
Master's Theses no. 0641 |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Theses (Master's) |
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dc.title |
Wigwams west: A native American model of frontier development, by Joseph P. Alessi. |
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Thesis |
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