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- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume i
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Enlightenment and Culture
- Part II The British Colonies
- 5 The Revolution in British America: General Overview
- 6 The Myth of “Salutary Neglect”: Empire and Revolution in the Long Eighteenth Century
- 7 The British Atlantic on the Eve of American Independence
- 8 Cities and Citizenship in Revolution
- 9 The Other British Colonies
- 10 The Participation of France and Spain
- 11 Britain, Ireland, and the American Revolution, c. 1763–1785
- 12 A Contest of Wills: The Spectrum and Experience of Political Violence in the American Revolution
- 13 Recovering Loyalism: Opposition to the American Revolution as a Good Idea
- 14 White Women and the American Revolution
- 15 Blacks in the British Colonies
- 16 Life, Land, and Liberty: The Native Americans’ Revolution
- 17 Shaping the Constitution
- 18 Reform and Rebellion in Spanish America at the Time of the American Revolution
- 19 International Warfare and the Non-British Caribbean
- 20 Interpreting a Symbol of Progress and Regression: European Views of America’s Revolution and Early Republic, 1780–1790
- Index
16 - Life, Land, and Liberty: The Native Americans’ Revolution
from Part II - The British Colonies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 October 2023
- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume i
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Enlightenment and Culture
- Part II The British Colonies
- 5 The Revolution in British America: General Overview
- 6 The Myth of “Salutary Neglect”: Empire and Revolution in the Long Eighteenth Century
- 7 The British Atlantic on the Eve of American Independence
- 8 Cities and Citizenship in Revolution
- 9 The Other British Colonies
- 10 The Participation of France and Spain
- 11 Britain, Ireland, and the American Revolution, c. 1763–1785
- 12 A Contest of Wills: The Spectrum and Experience of Political Violence in the American Revolution
- 13 Recovering Loyalism: Opposition to the American Revolution as a Good Idea
- 14 White Women and the American Revolution
- 15 Blacks in the British Colonies
- 16 Life, Land, and Liberty: The Native Americans’ Revolution
- 17 Shaping the Constitution
- 18 Reform and Rebellion in Spanish America at the Time of the American Revolution
- 19 International Warfare and the Non-British Caribbean
- 20 Interpreting a Symbol of Progress and Regression: European Views of America’s Revolution and Early Republic, 1780–1790
- Index
Summary
History typically portrays the Revolution as an American war for independence in which the colonists severed their ties with the mother country across the Atlantic and incidentally fought off Indian raids on the western frontier. Native Americans did little to affect the outcome of the Revolution so they are usually accorded a minimal role in its story. This chapter, in contrast, recognizes that Native peoples, and their lands, played a significant role in the causes and course of the Revolution and demonstrates that the Revolution mattered profoundly and had huge repercussions in Indian country. Rather than simply fulfilling the negative role prescribed for them in the Declaration of Independence, Native Americans waged their own wars of independence and fought to defend their lands, lives, and freedom.
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- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions , pp. 422 - 447Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023