From Frontier to Border Along the Iroquois Southern Door |
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Authors: | Charles R. Cobb |
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Affiliation: | (1) South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA |
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Abstract: | The Upper Susquehanna drainage in New York assumed increasingly greater prominence as a borderland during the eighteenth century. Contrary to the idea that geopolitical boundaries were Colonial impositions, the creation of this borderland ensued from long-term strategies on the part of Native American as well as Euro-American powers. Reacting to Colonial encroachments from south and east, the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) populated the valley with multi-ethnic towns consisting of both refugee tribes from the Atlantic seaboard and Iroquois representatives. These actions created a distinctive zone of creolized communities, and reflected the Haudenosaunee ability to play off English notions of demarcating the landscape. |
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Keywords: | Creolized communities Iroquois Multi-ethnic towns Upper Susquehanna drainage |
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