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The Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500–1800

byWayne E. Lee

Wayne E. Lee examines Indigenous warfare in eastern North America from 1500 to 1800 through strategy, culture, geography, diplomacy, and community survival. Archaeology, anthropology, maps, and Indigenous studies reveal fighting traditions poorly captured by European categories of battle and conquest. The “cutting-off way” emphasized ambush, mobility, limited objectives, and the protection or replacement of people in societies where losses carried profound consequences. Lee shows how Native nations adapted to firearms, colonization, and shifting alliances while preserving their own military logics, challenging histories that treat European warfare as the universal standard.

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781469673783