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Wigwams West: A Native American Model of Frontier Development
| Title: | Wigwams West: A Native American Model of Frontier Development |
| Author: | Alessi, Joseph P. |
| Description: | Over the past forty years, scholars retold the story of Native Americans and, unlike their predecessors, 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 development 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 groups who migrated west and settled the Ohio Valley, the Shawnee, Lenni-Lenape (Delaware) and Mingo. |
| Permanent Link: |
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu998680970
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/3138 |
| Date: | 2001 |
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