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Covered with night : a story of murder and indigenous justice in early America
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First edition.
"An immersive tale of the killing of a Native American man and its far-reaching consequences for Colonial America. In the summer of 1722, on the eve of a conference between the Five Nations of the Iroquois and British-American colonists, two colonial furtraders brutally attacked an Indigenous hunter in colonial Pennsylvania. The crime set the entire mid-Atlantic on edge, with many believing that war was imminent. Frantic efforts to resolve the case created a contest between Native American forms of justice, centered on community, forgiveness, and reparations, and an ideology of harsh reprisal, based on British law, that called for the killers' execution. In a stunning narrative history based on painstaking original research, acclaimed historian Nicole Eustace reconstructs the crime and its aftermath, taking us into the worlds of Euro-Americans and Indigenous peoples in this formative period. A feat of reclamation evoking Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's A Midwife's Tale and Alan Taylor's William Cooper's Town, Eustace's utterly absorbing account provides a new understanding of Indigenous forms of justice, with lessons for our era"--
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0 current holds with 20 total copies.| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
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| Yonkers Crestwood Library | 364.15 E (Text) Nonfiction |
31035162255979 |
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| Yonkers Crestwood Library | 364.15 E (Text) New Nonfiction |
31035614010477 |
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| Yonkers Grinton I. Will Library | 364.15 E (Text) Nonfiction |
31035613063709 |
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| Yonkers Riverfront Library | 364.15 E (Text) Nonfiction |
31035612074434 |
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