
The Worlds the Shawnees Made
Migration and Violence in Early America
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Tom Weiner
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Stephen Warren
In 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British, "We have always been the frontier." Their statement challenges an oft-held belief that American Indians derive their unique identities from longstanding ties to native lands. By tracking Shawnee people and migrations from 1400 to 1754, Stephen Warren illustrates how Shawnees made a life for themselves at the crossroads of empires and competing tribes, embracing mobility and often moving willingly toward violent borderlands. By the middle of the eighteenth century, the Shawnees ranged over the eastern half of North America and used their knowledge to foster notions of pan-Indian identity that shaped relations between Native Americans and settlers in the revolutionary era and beyond.
Warren's deft analysis makes clear that Shawnees were not anomalous among native peoples east of the Mississippi. Through migration, they and their neighbors adapted to disease, warfare, and dislocation by interacting with colonizers as slavers, mercenaries, guides, and traders. These adaptations enabled them to preserve their cultural identities and resist coalescence without forsaking their linguistic and religious traditions.
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Shawnee history is complex
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Warren's 2013 "The Worlds the Shawnees Made" is an interesting, if somewhat dry for the novice, approach to the Shawnee peoples covering about 350 years. While many native tribes were tied to specific geographic areas, Warren's approach is to present the Shawnees not as a geographically settled people but very much as a migratory/transient people by covering three major migratory periods across nearly the entire width and breadth of Eastern North America. Warren's narrative finds the Shawnees, in various places and at various times, acting as allies with some tribes, warring with others, on friendly relations with some colonists/Europeans, and antagonistic towards others.
To the extent there's a "problem" with this history, it's that the reader doesn't get much of a sense of the "Shawnee" as a tribe or people. This is in large part because they were *SO* geographically dispersed and made up of so many smaller tribal populations (and they themselves frequently intermingled/married of other tribes). In much the same way that it's difficult to pin the Shawnee down to a geographic location, that fact also makes it difficult to pin them down as a distinct and ethno-cultural entity. While I'm sure this largely a product of my unfamiliarity with the subject matter but Warren's writing (while adequate), rarely moves beyond the scholarly -- somewhat limiting the appeal of this otherwise useful history to a general reader.
An intriguing ethnographic study
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Great information well presented
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I was especially interested in his cultural descriptions of the Shawnee concept of the soul as it differs with European ideas about the same. He emphesizes how this cultural difference effects the outlooks on life and death that the Shawnee have even into modern times.
The work the author has done in this book helpfully outlines the Shawnee's specific role in much of american history as helpful mediators and diplomats, and finishes the manuscript with a perspective on the difficulty that arises from literary advantage that pits the Shawnee oral history against the English and their Haudenosaunee allies dependance on written records.
Enjoyable and informative. Ten stars
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Excellent Unique Perspective
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Shawnee history deserves a better telling.
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Maybe a fine textbook or perhaps riveting to an ethnographically inclined effete.Yawn
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Very interesting & informative
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