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- Moderator, NYHIST-L

The University of Nebraska Press announces the forthcoming (June 1)
publication of From Homeland to New Land: A History of the Mahican
Indians, 1600-1830, by William A. Starna, Professor Emeritus of
Anthropology, State University of New York College at Oneonta. 

From the catalog: “This history of the Mahicans begins with the
appearance of Europeans on the Hudson River in 1609 and ends with the
removal of these Native peoples to Wisconsin in the 1830s. Marshaling
the methods of history, ethnology, and archaeology, William A. Starna
describes as comprehensively as the sources allow the Mahicans while in
their Hudson and Housatonic Valley homeland; after their consolidation
at the praying town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts; and following their
move to Oneida country in central New York at the end of the Revolution
and their migration west. The emphasis throughout this book is on
describing and placing into historical context Mahican relations with
surrounding Native groups: the Munsees of the lower Hudson; eastern
Iroquoians; and the St. Lawrence and New England Algonquians. Starna
also examines the Mahicans’ interactions with Dutch, English, and
French interlopers. The first and most transformative of these
encounters was with the Dutch and the trade in furs, which ushered in
culture change and the loss of
Mahican lands. The Dutch presence, along with the new economy, worked
to unsettle political alliances in the region that, while leading to new
alignments, often engendered rivalries and war. The result is an
outstanding examination of the historical record that will become the
definitive work on the Mahican people from the colonial period to the
Removal Era.”

For more information and to order the book go to 
http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/From-Homeland-to-New-Land,675650.aspx
 
 
 
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