The unstable, though generally peaceful and prosperous, relations of the Middle Ground characterized life in Illinois until the French and Indian War of the mid-eighteenth century. In this conflict Native American tribes aligned themselves with the French and suffered a decisive defeat at the hands of the British Empire.
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The English settlement of Springfield is an example of how first European trader and then settlement affected pre-existing Native American trade networks and political relations. Settled in 1636, Springfield was the first English settlement in the middle Connecticut River Valley. ... for they enclose no ground,
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'We Shall Remain', a 7½-hour, five-part look at pivotal moments in Native American history, premiered on Monday. April 13. The series stretches from the 1600s with the Wampanoag, a tribe that befriended struggling English settlers, to the 1970s with the armed leaders of the American Indian Movement defying U.S. Marshals.
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Described by historian Richard White as “the middle ground,” the emergent society incorporated both Native American and French cultural patterns but ...
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      The Middle Ground destabilized many of the older narratives of early American history by developing a different behavioral model for understanding human interaction. Though some historians may criticize White ... Whereas Bohaker refutes the extent to which warfare and disease shattered Native American communities,
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The onset of Revolution causes even more problems for the middle ground and for Native American villages, now the preeminent political unit in the pays d'en haut, as Americans now enter the equation alongside the British and the disappearing French.
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Mapping the landscape of 'the middle ground' that native and colonial peoples sought to create in the Great Lakes region, ... Richard White's Middle Ground is a welcome and important addition to this work." Francis Jennings, American Indian Culture and Research Journal"This notion of the search for a common ground--or,
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Mapping the landscape of 'the middle ground' that native and colonial peoples sought to create in the Great Lakes region, ... Indeed, White's "middle ground" bids fair to assume the blanket hegemony exercised over the American historical imagination a decade or more back by the idea of "republicanism." And,
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Mapping the landscape of 'the middle ground' that native and colonial peoples sought to create in the Great Lakes region, ... Indeed, White's "middle ground" bids fair to assume the blanket hegemony exercised over the American historical imagination a decade or more back by the idea of "republicanism." And,
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Mapping the landscape of 'the middle ground' that native and colonial peoples sought to create in the Great Lakes region, Professor White has done more than chronicle, with unprecedented clarity and fairness to ... The Middle Ground will change the way we think not just about Indians, but about American history generally.
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