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Author Bernstein, David, 1973- author.

Title How the West was drawn : mapping, Indians, and the construction of the Trans-Mississippi West / David Bernstein
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xviiii, 304 pages)
Series Early American places
Borderlands and transcultural studies
Early American places.
Borderlands and transcultural studies.
Contents Living in Indian country -- Construction Indian country -- Sharitarish and the possibility of treaties -- Non-participatory mapping -- The rise and fall of "Indian country" -- The cultural construction of "Indian country" -- Science and the destruction of "Indian country" -- Reclaiming Indian country -- The metaphysics of Indian naming -- Conclusion
Summary "How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and American contest for imperial control of the Great Plains during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. David Bernstein argues that the American West was a collaborative construction between Native peoples and Euro-American empires that developed cartographic processes and culturally specific maps, which in turn reflected encounter and conflict between settler states and Indigenous peoples. Bernstein explores the cartographic creation of the Trans-Mississippi West through an interdisciplinary methodology in geography and history. He shows how the Pawnees and the Iowas -- wedged between powerful Osages, Sioux, the horse- and captive-rich Comanche Empire, French fur traders, Spanish merchants, and American Indian agents and explorers -- devised strategies of survivance and diplomacy to retain autonomy during this era. The Pawnees and the Iowas developed a strategy of cartographic resistance to predations by both Euro-American imperial powers and strong Indigenous empires, navigating the volatile and rapidly changing world of the Great Plains by brokering their spatial and territorial knowledge either to stronger Indigenous nations or to much weaker and conquerable American and European powers. How the West Was Drawn is a revisionist and interdisciplinary understanding of the global imperial contest for North America's Great Plains that illuminates in fine detail the strategies of survival of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas amid accommodation to predatory Euro-American and Native empires"--Provided by the publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from resource home page (JSTOR, viewed November 18, 2021)
Subject Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Maps
Cartography -- Great Plains -- History -- 19th century
Names, Indian -- Great Plains
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
HISTORY -- Historical Geography.
Cartography
Indians of North America
Names, Indian
Iowa Volk
Kartografie
Lakota
Pawnee
SUBJECT Great Plains -- Maps
Subject Great Plains
Mississippi-Gebiet
Genre/Form History
Maps
Maps.
Cartes géographiques.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017052576
ISBN 9781496207999
1496207998
9781496208019
1496208013
9781496224927
1496224922