Echoes from the Eastern Shore: Twelve Native American Chiefs and the Fight for the Atlantic Homelands

For Native nations, colonial first contact was not a single moment. It was a slow-moving catastrophe.

Long before American independence, Native nations along the eastern seaboard were already confronting an expanding colonial world that threatened their sovereignty, alliances, and survival. Echoes from the Eastern Shore tells the stories of twelve Indigenous chiefs along the Atlantic seaboard during the first centuries of European colonization. Focusing on Native nations from New England thr...