The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent

In The Native Ground, Kathleen DuVal argues that it was Indians rather than European would—be colonizers who were more often able to determine the form and content of the relations between the two groups. Along the banks of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers, far from Paris, Madrid, and London, European colonialism met neither accommodation nor resistance but incorporation. Rather than being colonized, Indians drew European empires into local patterns of land and resource allocation, suste...