Native Americans in Urban Places
Review of , “The Chiefs Now in This City”: Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America, by Colin Calloway (New York City, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021)
… Native Americans visited colonial cities from New Orleans to Montreal, … in between. Historians have traditionally focused on the outcomes of “the chiefs now in this city,” namely, treaties. … this work, however, the words work to invert the usual viewpoints we use. In essence, what is urban, or a frontier, is …