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Violence over the Land
Violence over the Land INDIANS AND EMPIRES IN THE EARLY AMERICAN WEST
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Ned Blackhawk
HA RVARD U N IVE RSIT Y P R E S S
Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England
Copyright © 2006 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 2008. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Blackhawk, Ned. Violence over the land : Indians and empires in the early American West / Ned Blackhawk. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-674-02290-4 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-674-02720-6 (pbk.) 1. Indians of North America—Great Basin—History. 2. Indians of North America—Wars—Great Basin. 3. Great Basin—History. I. Title. E78.G67B53 979.004′97—dc22
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Dedicated to my grandmother, Eva Charley (1912–1987) to my father, Evan Blackhawk (1941–), who showed me that one need not live a life in pain and to the Kanesatake and Kahnawake Mohawk Communities, whose articulate and defiant voices in the summer of 1990 helped me discover my own
Contents
Introduction: The Indigenous Body in Pain
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Spanish-Ute Relations to 1750
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The Making of the New Mexican–Ute Borderlands
T HR E E FO U R FI V E SIX SEVEN
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The Enduring Spanish-Ute Alliance
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Crisis in the New Mexican–Ute Borderlands
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Great Basin Indians in the Era of Lewis and Clark
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Colorado Utes and the Traumatic Storms of Expansion Utah’s Indians and the Crisis of Mormon Settlement Epilogue: Born on the Fourth of July, or Narrating Nevadan Indian Histories 267
Chronology Abbreviations Notes
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Acknowledgments Index
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Illustrations
General map of the Great Basin region Tribal territories of the Great Basin
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Shoshone beggars at a railway station, 1873 Mamie Andrews, ca. 1919
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Hide painting of New Mexican Indian militia, early 1700s Caste painting of a genízaro and mulata, ca. 1785 Caste painting of indios bárbaros, ca. 1715 “Bearded Ute Map,” 1778
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Valley in the Slope of the Great Basin, Leading from the Tejon Pass, 1855 138 Map of Lewis and Clark’s 1804–1806 expedition, 1814 Extermination of the Pun-Naks, 1856 Fort Massachusetts, 1856
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Chief Ouray and the Ute delegation in Washington, 1868 Map of Navajo and Ute Indian reservations, 1879 Chief Walkara, 1854
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Site of 1863 Bear River Massacre Paiute prophet Wovoka, 1911
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Paiute mother and children, early twentieth century
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Captured children after the Shoshone Mike Massacre, 1911 Eva Charley, ca. 1929
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