Daniel H Usner
Biographic Data
| ID | 180262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel H Usner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel H |
| FAMILY NAME | Usner |
| SIGNATURE | USNER D H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Weaving Material Objects and Political Alliances
NAIS 1:1 SPRING 2014 Weaving Material Objects and Political Alliances 25 Articles DANIEL H. USNER Weaving Material Objects and Political Alliances The Chitimacha Indian Pursuit of Federal Recognition “WHEN WE FORAGE FOR STORIES,” Ellen Meloy wrote in The Anthropology of Turquoise, “we may end up telling our own. When we cannot possess the thoughts of past cultures, we possess their things.” This shrewd observation occurred to Meloy while visiting…
Rescuing Early America from Nationalist Narratives
The effort to compare and connect different French colonies in North America encounters some treacherous roadblocks, including the powerful impact of Canadian and United States nation building on the treatment of French colonial regions and the widely divergent approaches taken by scholars of New France and French Louisiana. This essay attempts to explain why these obstacles appeared in the first place and to suggest how they might be overcome in…
Weaving Material Objects and Political Alliances
NAIS 1:1 SPRING 2014 Weaving Material Objects and Political Alliances 25 Articles DANIEL H. USNER Weaving Material Objects and Political Alliances The Chitimacha Indian Pursuit of Federal Recognition “WHEN WE FORAGE FOR STORIES,” Ellen Meloy wrote in The Anthropology of Turquoise, “we may end up telling our own. When we cannot possess the thoughts of past cultures, we possess their things.” This shrewd observation occurred to Meloy while visiting…
ASE Address 2011
Canastromania was a word coined by Smithsonian curator Otis Tufton Mason to capture the early twentieth-century fascination with American Indian basketry. Presented as the American Society for Ethnohistory presidential address at the epicenter of this collecting craze-Pasadena, California-this essay high-lights the basket business of a Pasadena dealer named Grace Nicholson. The study of material things has long been a vital part of ethnohistory, …
Zamumo's Gifts
Journal Article Zamumo's Gifts: Indian-European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast Get access Zamumo's Gifts: Indian-European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast. By Joseph M. Hall Jr. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. x, 232 pp. $37.50, ISBN978-0-8122-4179-2.) Daniel H. Usner, Jr. Daniel H. Usner, Jr. Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
Mapping the Americas
Book Review| July 01 2011 Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture. By Huhndorf, Shari M.. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. $39.95 cloth.) Daniel H. Usner, Jr. Daniel H. Usner, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (3): 542–543. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1263911 C…
Indian Work
Representations of Indian economic life have played an integral role in discourses about poverty, social policy, and cultural difference but have received surprisingly little attention. Daniel Usner dismantles ideological characterizations of Indian livelihood to reveal the intricacy of economic adaptations in American Indian history
Creek Country
Anthropologist Robbie Ethridge has mustered impressive interdisciplinary skills to reconstruct what she calls “a distant, lost world—the world of the Creek Indians at the close of the eighteenth century” (p. 1). Through an imaginative use of archaeological and documentary records as well as some oral traditions, her book recovers daily life in a country that was integrally part of the modern world system. The writings of Benjamin Hawkins, U.S. ag…
François Vallé and His World
Journal Article François Vallé and His World: Upper Louisiana before Lewis and Clark Get access François Vallé and His World: Upper Louisiana before Lewis and Clark. By Ekberg Carl J.. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. xvii + 316 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendix, notes, index. $39.95.) Daniel H. Usner, Jr. Daniel H. Usner, Jr. Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar West…
American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Native peoples inhabiting the Lower Mississippi Valley confronted increasing domination by colonial powers, disastrous reductions in population, and threatened marginalization by a new cotton economy. Their strategies of resistance and adaptation to these changes are brought to light in this perceptive study. An introductory overview of the historiography of Native peoples in the early Southeast…
Indians and English
The Allegany Senecas and Kinzua Dam
American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley
American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley
Frontier exchange and cotton production
American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley
Journal Article American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Social and Economic Histories. By Daniel H. Usner Jr. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xvi, 189 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8032-4556-4.) Get access Joel W. Martin Joel W. Martin Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Page 1329…
American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley
Journal Article American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Social and Economic Histories Get access American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Social and Economic Histories. By Usner Daniel H.Jr. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xiv + 189 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $45.00.) Laurence M. Hauptman Laurence M. Hauptman SUNY New Paltz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Wester…
Deerskins and Duffels
A Spirited Resistance
Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy
In the Spirit of the Earth
Journal Article In the Spirit of the Earth: Rethinking History and Time Get access In the Spirit of the Earth: Rethinking History and Time. By Martin Calvin Luther. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. x + 157 pp. Bibliographical essay, notes. $19.95.) Daniel H. Usner, Jr. Daniel H. Usner, Jr. Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 25, Issue 2, …
Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy
Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy
Indians, Settlers, & Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy
Journal Article Indians, Settlers, & Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783. By Daniel H. Usner, Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. XX + 294 pp. Cloth, $32.50, ISBN 0-80782014-8. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-8078-4358-X.) Get access James H. O'Donnell, III James H. O'Donnell, III Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jour…
Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy
Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic
Journal Article Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic Get access Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic. By McLoughlin William G.. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. xxii + 472 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $29.50.) Daniel H. Usner, Jr. Daniel H. Usner, Jr. Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 4, Novem…
Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy
The Frontier Exchange Economy of the Lower Mississippi Valley in the Eighteenth Century
I T is an old fact and far from a new observation that the lower Mississippi Valley has been generally relegated to the margins of early American historiography. The region has been borderland territory for historians as it once was for the English colonies of the Atlantic coast, and its people have been largely ignored or casually dismissed as mere bit-players in the drama of American development-colorful, no doubt, but peripheral and unimportan…
Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy
Indian Work
Representations of Indian economic life have played an integral role in discourses about poverty, social policy, and cultural difference but have received surprisingly little attention. Daniel Usner dismantles ideological characterizations of Indian livelihood to reveal the intricacy of economic adaptations in American Indian history
Frontier exchange and cotton production
American Indians on the Cotton Frontier
Journal Article American Indians on the Cotton Frontier: Changing Economic Relations with Citizens and Slaves in the Mississippi Territory Get access Daniel H. Usner, Jr. Daniel H. Usner, Jr. assistant professor of history Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 2, September 1985, Pages 297–317, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903377 Published: 01 September…
A Cycle of Lowland Forest Efficiency
Long before the innovations of the Mississippian Tradition, inhabitants of the lower Mississippi Valley had devised hunting-and-gathering strategies that had a lasting impact on economic life in the region. By combining wildlife and forest studies with ethnographic evidence, a cycle of food-procuring activities is outlined to illustrate how efficient exploitation of the lowland forest might have occurred from the late Archaic through the Woodland…
American Indians on the Cotton Frontier
Journal Article American Indians on the Cotton Frontier: Changing Economic Relations with Citizens and Slaves in the Mississippi Territory Get access Daniel H. Usner, Jr. Daniel H. Usner, Jr. assistant professor of history Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 2, September 1985, Pages 297–317, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903377 Published: 01 September…
Food marketing and interethnic exchange in the 18th-century lower Mississippi Valley
(1986). Food marketing and interethnic exchange in the 18th‐century lower Mississippi Valley. Food and Foodways: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 279-310
The History and Culture of Iroquois Diplomacy
Journal Article The History and Culture of Iroquois Diplomacy: An Interdisciplinary Guide to the Treaties of the Six Nations and Their League Get access The History and Culture of Iroquois Diplomacy: An Interdisciplinary Guide to the Treaties of the Six Nations and Their League. Edited by Jennings Francis. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1985. xviii + 278 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $30.00.) Daniel H. Usner, Jr.…
Colonial Ste. Genevieve
The Southern Indians and Benjamin Hawkins, 1796-1816
Journal Article The Southern Indians and Benjamin Hawkins, 1796–1816. By Florette Henri. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. xiii + 378 pp. $24.95.) Get access Daniel H. Usner, Jr. Daniel H. Usner, Jr. Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 4, March 1987, Page 1024, https://doi.org/10.2307/1904087 Published: 01 March 1987
The Frontier Exchange Economy of the Lower Mississippi Valley in the Eighteenth Century
I T is an old fact and far from a new observation that the lower Mississippi Valley has been generally relegated to the margins of early American historiography. The region has been borderland territory for historians as it once was for the English colonies of the Atlantic coast, and its people have been largely ignored or casually dismissed as mere bit-players in the drama of American development-colorful, no doubt, but peripheral and unimportan…
The Great Father
Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic
Journal Article Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic Get access Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic. By McLoughlin William G.. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. xxii + 472 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $29.50.) Daniel H. Usner, Jr. Daniel H. Usner, Jr. Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 4, Novem…
The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana
Apaches at War and Peace
After Removal
The Moral Economy of the Eighteenth-Century Backcountry
Confederate Colonel and Cherokee Chief
Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy
Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy
Indians, Settlers, & Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy
Journal Article Indians, Settlers, & Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783. By Daniel H. Usner, Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. XX + 294 pp. Cloth, $32.50, ISBN 0-80782014-8. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-8078-4358-X.) Get access James H. O'Donnell, III James H. O'Donnell, III Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jour…
Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy
Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy
Journal Article Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783 Get access Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783. By Usner Daniel H.Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. xvii + 294 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. $32.50, cloth; $12.95, paper.) Jay Gitlin Jay Gitlin Yale University Search for …
A Spirited Resistance
Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy
In the Spirit of the Earth
Journal Article In the Spirit of the Earth: Rethinking History and Time Get access In the Spirit of the Earth: Rethinking History and Time. By Martin Calvin Luther. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. x + 157 pp. Bibliographical essay, notes. $19.95.) Daniel H. Usner, Jr. Daniel H. Usner, Jr. Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 25, Issue 2, …
Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy
Deerskins and Duffels
American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley
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