The Shawnees and the War for America
- ISBN-10
- 0670038628
- ISBN-13
- 9780670038626
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 216
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Colin Gordon Calloway
Description
An account of early American settler efforts to claim Shawnee territories in Ohio, Kentucky, and other states traces how the Shawnee tribe met American forces on equal terms before being forced to fight in order to salvage its cultural and political indep
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