MARC Record from Marygrove College

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100 1 $aPeckham, Howard H.$q(Howard Henry),$d1910-1995,$eauthor.
245 10 $aPontiac and the Indian uprising /$cby Howard H. Peckham.
260 $aPrinceton, New Jersey :$bPrinceton University Press,$c1947.
300 $axviii, 346 pages :$billustrations, portraits, maps ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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520 8 $a"The most formidable Indian resistance that the English speaking people ever faced was set in motion by an astute and purposeful Ottawa chief on the Detroit River. This was Pontiac. He epitomized the gathering resentment of the native to the invaders. With his defeat, one era in Indian history ended and another began. Who was Pontiac? is a fair question from an American today. After all, Pontiac has been dead for 178 years. The enemy he fought no longer controls the territory he tried to wrest from them. His French friends have been absorbed into Canadian or American nationality. His tribe has diminished and no long inhabits the region it once knew intimately. The peculiar momentum of a superior culture, intensified by the attraction of the land's unbelievable resources, was irresistible. The savages were pushed aside or rolled over. And yet the problem Pontiac posed -- or rather inflamed with his burning arrows -- remains on our national conscience. True, it was erased by our application of force, but that victory was never a solution. We are not yet agreed on the centuries-old question of what to do about the Indian"--Foreword.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 326-332) and index.
505 0 $aHis background -- His early life -- His first activity -- The Ottawas in the French and Indian War -- The British occupy Detroit -- Peacemaking at Detroit -- Origin of Pontiac's War -- The plot and its discovery -- The first blows -- The problem of supplies -- Victories beyond Detroit -- The news travels East -- Progress of the siege -- From Bloody Bridge to Bushy Run -- The war on the settlements -- The east end of Lake Erie -- The siege is raised -- Pontiac escapes punishment -- Reluctant submission -- Formal treaty negotiations -- Peace, and persecution -- Assassination, and fame -- Retrospect.
590 $bInternet Archive - 2
590 $bInternet Archive 2
600 00 $aPontiac,$cOttawa Chief,$d-1769.
600 06 $aPontiac,$cchef Outaouais,$d1720?-1769.
600 07 $aPontiac,$cOttawa Chief,$d-1769.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01841872
611 27 $aPontiac's Conspiracy (1763-1765)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01070996
650 0 $aPontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765.
650 6 $aPontiac, Conspiration de, 1763-1765.
650 17 $aIndianen.$2gtt
650 7 $aPontiac's Rebellion$2gnd
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aPeckham, Howard H. (Howard Henry), 1910-1995.$tPontiac and the Indian uprising.$dPrinceton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1947$w(OCoLC)1001426228
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