Uncas

Download or read book Uncas written by Michael Leroy Oberg and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many know the name Uncas only from James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, but the historical Uncas flourished as an important leader of the Mohegan people in seventeenth-century Connecticut. In Uncas: First of the Mohegans, Michael Leroy Oberg integrates the life story of an important Native American sachem into the broader story of European settlement in America. The arrival of the English in Connecticut in the 1630s upset the established balance among the region's native groups and brought rapid economic and social change. Oberg argues that Uncas's methodical and sustained strategies for adapting to these changes made him the most influential Native American leader in colonial New England. Emerging from the damage wrought by epidemic disease and English violence, Uncas transformed the Mohegans from a small community along the banks of the Thames River in Connecticut into a regional power in southern New England. Uncas learned quickly how to negotiate between cultures in the conflicts that developed as natives and newcomers, Indians and English, maneuvered for access to and control of frontier resources. With English assistance, Uncas survived numerous assaults and plots hatched by his native rivals. Unique among Indian leaders in early America, Uncas maintained his power over large numbers of tributary and other native communities in the region, lived a long life, and died a peaceful death (without converting to Christianity) in his people's traditional homeland. Oberg finds that although the colonists considered Uncas "a friend to the English," he was first and foremost an assertive guardian of Mohegan interests.

Download or read book The Natural History of Uncas Metcalfe written by Betsey Osborne and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncas Metcalfe is a sixty-five-year-old botany professor from a once prosperous central New York town, whose habitat is changing much too quickly: his wife is ill, his daughter has returned home, and an unusual new friendship unexpectedly stirs up memories of an almost forgotten infidelity. Uncas is rooted in a life of plants and manners. When his routine is upended by the menacing demands of a former student, Uncas finds his comfortably obstinate nature at odds with his family's growing impatience and a newfound, terrifying uncertainty. The Natural History of Uncas Metcalfe follows an unforgettable hero as he struggles to right himself and adapt to changing expectations, even as he approaches the end of his life. Beautifully wrought and wonderfully imagined, the intricacies of the Metcalfe family will linger in your imagination long after the last page.

Download or read book Uncas and Miantonomoh written by William Leete Stone and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Enhanced Stream Water Quality Models QUAL2E and QUAL2E-UNCAS written by Linfield C. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Uncas and the Mohegan-Pequot written by Arthur L. Peale and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Connecticut, Between Old John Uncas, Young John Uncas, and Several Other Mohegan Indians on Behalf of Themselves and the Rest of Their Tribe by John Mason and Samuel Mason, Gentlemen, the Trustees for and Guardians of the Said Tribe, Appellants, and the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Connecticut in New England in America, and Others, Respondents written by Connecticut and published by . This book was released on 1770 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book written by American Hereford Association and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief history of Hereford cattle: v. 1, p. 359-375.