Amerindian war and religion in the Eastern Woodlands of North America, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
This article focuses on violent conflict among indigenous groups in the Eastern Woodlands of North America from the seventeenth to the late eighteenth century. Amerindian groups struggled here against European domination and among themselves for various reasons. However, warfare was conceived in spi...
| Publicado en: | History & Anthropology Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 78 - 99 |
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