Indians and English

In this vividly written book, prize-winning author Karen Ordahl Kupperman refocuses our understanding of encounters between English venturers and Algonquians all along the East Coast of North America in the early years of contact and settlement. All parties in these dramas were uncertain -- hopeful [...]
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In this vividly written book, prize-winning author Karen Ordahl Kupperman refocuses our understanding of encounters between English venturers and Algonquians all along the East Coast of North America in the early years of contact and settlement. All parties in these dramas were uncertain -- hopeful and fearful -- about the opportunity and challenge presented by new realities. Indians and English both believed they could control the developing relationship. Both came from societies in the process of unsettling change and hoped to derive important lessons by studying a profoundly different culture. Kupperman analyzes a wide variety of Native and English sources in order to understand the true nature of these early years, when English venturers were so fearful and dependent on Native aid and the shape of the future was uncertain. Building on the research in her highly regarded book Settling With the Indians, she argues convincingly that we must see both Indians and English as active participants in this unfolding drama.