The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795-1870

Stephen Warren traces the transformation in Shawnee sociopolitical organization over seventy years as it changed from village-centric, multi-tribe kin groups to an institutionalized national government led by wealthy men with only marginal kin ties to the people they claimed to represent. The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795-1870 lays bare the nexus of myth and history produced by Shawnee interpreters with a telling analysis of their vested interests in modernizing the tribes. Until recently, ...