People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America

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Robert Michael Morrissey Paul S. Sutter

People of the Ecotone

Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America

Robert Michael Morrissey, Paul S. Sutter, Paul S. Sutter

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English

University of Washington Press
01 November 2022

History of the Americas; Social & cultural history; Indigenous peoples; Grasslands, heaths, prairies, tundra

Series: People of the Ecotone

In People of the Ecotone, Robert Morrissey weaves together a history of Native peoples with a history of an ecotone to tell a new story about the roots of the Fox Wars, among the most transformative and misunderstood events of early American history. To do this, he also offers the first comprehensive environmental history of some of North America's most radically transformed landscapes-the former tallgrass prairies-in the period before they became the monocultural ""corn belt"" we know today.

Morrissey situates the complex rise and fall of the Illinois, Meskwaki, and Myaamia peoples from roughly the collapse of Cahokia (thirteenth to fourteenth century CE) to the mid-eighteenth century in the context of millennia-long environmental shifts, as changes to the climate shifted bison geographies and tribes adapted their cultures to become pedestrian bison hunters. Tracing dynamic chains of causation from microscopic viruses to massive forces of climate, from the deep time of evolution to the specific events of human lifetimes, from local Illinois village economies to market forces an ocean away, People of the Ecotone offers new insight on Indigenous power and Indigenous logics.

By: Robert Michael Morrissey
Foreword by: Paul S. Sutter
Series edited by: Paul S. Sutter
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 606g
ISBN: 9780295750873
ISBN 10: 0295750871
Series: People of the Ecotone
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 01 November 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert Michael Morrissey is associate professor of history at the University of Illinois. He is author of Empire by Collaboration: Indians, Colonists, and Governments in Colonial Illinois Country.

Reviews for People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America

Morrissey clearly conveys the benefits that a new materialist perspective can give to his audience. Perhaps Morrissey's book will encourage further collaboration between theoretical philosophy and history. With this refreshing environment-history-philosophy hybrid approach, readers can reflect on how much autonomy human communities have had, or have not had, throughout history when actors like bison, climate, plants, and other non-human entities were in play. * World History Encyclopedia * A compelling book...People of the Ecotone shines as an example of how focusing on “the place where they lived” enables new histories about Indigenous peoples before, during, and after colonial encounters. It is a must read for historians of the colonial Mississippi valley and definitely a should read for other environmental historians, early Americanists, and Indigenous studies scholars. * H-Environment *