Friends and enemies in Penn's Woods: Indians, colonists and the racial construction of Pennsylvania

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Contents List of Maps and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Daniel K. Richter and William A. Pencak Part I: Peoples in Conversation 1. New Sweden, Natives, and Nature Michael Dean Mackintosh 2. Colonialism and the Discursive Antecedents of Penn's Treaty with the Indians James O Neil Spady 3. Imagining Peace in Quaker and Native American Dream Stories Carla Gerona 4. Indian, Metis, and Euro-American Women on Multiple Frontiers Alison Duncan Hirsch Part II: Fragile Structures of Coexistence 5. Female Relationships and Intercultural Bonds in Moravian Indian Missions Amy C. Schutt 6. The Death of Sawantaeny and the Problem of Justice on the Frontier John Smolenski 7. Justice, Retribution, and the Case of John Toby Louis M. Waddell 8. The Diplomatic Career of Canasatego William A. Starna Part III: Toward a Pennsylvania 9. Delawares and Pennsylvanians after the Walking Purchase Steven C. Harper 10. Squatters, Indians, Proprietary Government, and Land in the Susquehanna Valley David L. Preston 11. Metonymy, Violence, Patriarchy, and the Paxton Boys Krista Camenzind 12. Real Indians, White Indians, and the Contest for the Wyoming Valley Paul Moyer 13. Whiteness and Warfare on a Revolutionary Frontier Gregory T. Knouff Afterword: James H. Merrell Abbreviations Notes Contributors Index