Colin G. Calloway
George Washington's place in the foundations of the Republic remains unrivalled. His life story - from his beginnings as a surveyor and farmer, to colonial soldier in the Virginia Regiment, leader of the Patriot cause, commander of the Continental Army, and finally first president of the United
States - reflects the narrative of the nation he guided into existence. There is, rightfully, no more chronicled figure.
Yet American history has largely forgotten what Washington himself knew clearly: that the new Republic's fate depended less on grand rhetoric of independence and
self-governance and more on land - Indian land. Colin G. Calloway's biography of the greatest founding father reveals in full the relationship between Washington and the Native leaders he dealt with intimately across the decades: Shingas, Tanaghrisson, Guyasuta, Attakullakulla, Bloody Fellow, Joseph
Brant, Cornplanter, Red Jacket, and Little Turtle, among many others. Using the prism of Washington's life to bring focus to these figures and the tribes they represented - the Iroquois Confederacy, Lenape, Miami, Creek, Delaware - Calloway reveals how central their role truly was in Washington's,
and therefore the nation's, foundational narrative.
Calloway gives the First Americans their due, revealing the full extent and complexity of the relationships between the man who rose to become the nation's most powerful figure and those whose power and dominion declined in almost equal
degree during his lifetime. His book invites us to look at America's origins in a new light. The Indian World of George Washington is a brilliant portrait of both the most revered man in American history and those whose story during the tumultuous century in which the country was formed has, until
now, been only partially told.
List of Illustrations
List of Native Americans
Introduction
One: Learning Curves
1. Virginia's Indian Country
2. The Ohio Company and the Ohio Country
3. Into Tanaghrisson's World
4. Tanaghrisson's War
5. Braddock and the Limits of Empire
6. Frontier Defense
and a Cherokee Alliance
7. Frontier Advance and a Cherokee War
Two: The Other Revolution
8. Confronting the Indian Boundary Line
9. "A good deal of Land."
10. The Question of Indian Allies
11. Town Destroyer
12. Killing Crawford
13. Building a Nation on Indian
Land
Three: The First President and the First Americans
14. An Indian Policy for the New Nation
15. Courting McGillivray
16. The Greatest Indian Victory
17. Philadelphia Indian Diplomacy
18. Achieving Empire
19. Transforming Indian Lives
20. A Death and a
Non-Death
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Colin G. Calloway is John Kimball Jr. 1943 Professor of History and Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. His previous books include A Scratch of the Pen and The Victory with No Name.