Native Americans in the American Revolution: how the war divided, devastated, and transformed the early American Indian world

Abstract

This valuable book provides a succinct, readable account of an oft-neglected topic in the historiography of the American Revolution: the role of Native Americans in the Revolution's outbreak, progress, and conclusion. * Adds the Native American perspective to the reader's understanding of the American Revolution, a critical aspect of this period in history that is rarely covered * Supplies a synthesis of the best current and past work on the topic of Native Americans in the American Revolution that will be accessible to general readers as well as undergraduate and graduate-level students * Shows how the struggle over the definition and utilization of Native American identity-an issue that was initiated with the American Revolution-is still ongoing for American Indians