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The Fox Wars: The Mesquakie Challenge to New France Volume 211

The Fox Wars: The Mesquakie Challenge to New France Volume 211 - Paperback

by R. David Edmunds, Joseph L. Peyser
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Availability:In StockContributor:R. David Edmunds, Joseph L. PeyserSeries:Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback) #211Publish date:2014-04-26Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Oklahoma PressISBN-13:9780806144634ISBN-10:806144637UPC:9780806144634Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Canada, Military, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:United States, AmericanSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.68 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCJYD0TRDN

This is the saga of the Fox (or Mesquakie) Indians' struggle to maintain their identity in the face of colonial New France during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

The Foxes occupied central Wisconsin, where for a long time they had warred with the Sioux and, more recently, had opposed the extension of the French firearm-and-fur trade with their western enemies. Caught between the Sioux anvil and the French hammer, the Foxes enlisted other tribes' support and maintained their independence until the late 1720s. Then the French treacherously offered them peace before launching a campaign of annihilation against them. The Foxes resisted valiantly, but finally were overwhelmed and took sanctuary among the Sac Indians, with whom they are closely associated to this day.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Oklahoma PressISBN-13:9780806144634ISBN-10:806144637UPC:9780806144634Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Canada, Military, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:United States, AmericanSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.68 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCJYD0TRDN
Edmunds, R. David: -

R. David Edmunds, Professor of History at the University of Texas in Dallas, is a historian of Native American people and the American West. The author or editor of ten books and over one hundred essays, articles, and other shorter publications, Edmunds' major works have been awarded the Francis Parkman Prize (The Potawatomis: Keepers Of The Fire, 1978); the Ohioana Prize for Biography (The Shawnee Prophet , 1983); and the Alfred Heggoy Prize of the French Colonial Historical Society (The Fox Wars: The Mesquakie Challenge To New France, 1993).

Peyser, Joseph L.: -

The late Joseph L. Peyser, who was Professor Emeritus of French at Indiana University, South Bend, and well known as an editor and translator of documents relating to New France, received the 1991 Hesseltine Award of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin for his research on the French-Fox conflict.

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