George Washington's War on Native America

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The American Revolutionary War is ordinarily presented as a conflict exclusively between colonists and the British, fought along the northern Atlantic seacoast. This important work recounts the tragic events on the forgotten Western front of the American Revolution - a war fought against and ultimately won by Native America. The Natives, primarily the Iroquois League and the Ohio Union, are erroneously presented in history texts as "allies" (or lackeys) of the British, but Native America was working to its own agenda: to prevent settlers from invading the Old Northwest. Native America won the war in the West, holding the land west and north of the Allegheny-Ohio River systems. While the British may have awarded these lands to the colonists in the Treaty of Paris, the Native Americans did not concur. Throughout the war, the unwavering goal of the Revolutionary Army, under George Washington, and their associated settler militias was to break the power of the Iroquois League, which had successfully held off invasion for the preceding two centuries, and the newly formed Ohio Union. To destroy the Natives in the way of land seizure, Washington authorized a series of rampages intended to destroy the League and the Union by starvation. Uncounted thousands of Natives perished from New York to Pennsylvania to Ohio. This book tells how, in the wake of these assaults, the Natives held back the American onslaught.

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"Barbara Mann has done it again. Abundantly documented, lucidly written and, best of all, utterly unequivocal in its conclusions, this is quite simply the best book ever written on the topic". - Ward Churchill, author of A Little Matter of Genocide"

Author Bio

Barbara Alice Mann is a Lecturer in the English Department of the University of Toledo. She is the author of Iroquoian Women: The Gantowisas (2000) and Native Americans, Archeologists, and the Mounds (2003), editor and author of Native American Speakers of the Eastern Woodlands (Greenwood, 2001), and co-editor and main contributor of Encyclopedia of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) (Greenwood, 2000).