This is a continuation of the chapter, “Shawnee Culture and the Ceremonialism of Violence” from the Ph.D dissertation of John M. Boback: Indian Warfare, Household Competency, and the Settlement of the Western Virginia Frontier, 1749 to 1794. The first portion of that chapter, “The Shawnee: their septs, their chiefs and their women”, can be read [...]
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The Shawnee: seasonal cycles of village labor, hunting, fishing, trapping & trading
Posted in beans, corn, fur trapping, Green Corn Ceremony, Huron, intertribal trade, Kanawha Valley, maple syrup, Mary Draper Ingles, pumpkins, salt, Shawnee, slash-and-burn agriculture, squash, tobacco, white-tailed deer on February 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Shawnee: their septs, their chiefs & their women
Posted in Black Hoof, Chalagawtha sept, Doug Wood, John Boback, Kispokotha sept, Maykujay sept, Peckuwe sept, Shawnee, Tenskwatawa, Thawegila sept, William Penn on February 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As part of an effort to employ this blog, not only a source of news about current events at Pricketts Fort, but also as a resource of information about the early history of the lower Monongahela valley, and of the Virginia frontier generally, I will be posting a series of excerpts from John M. Boback’s [...]
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