Kate Fullagar
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780300243062
- eISBN:
- 9780300249279
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300243062.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
In late 1762, Ostenaco returns to a changing Appalachia. The chapter narrates the second half of his life, detailing his adventures with home life, war, land cession, and much else. The year 1763 ...
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In late 1762, Ostenaco returns to a changing Appalachia. The chapter narrates the second half of his life, detailing his adventures with home life, war, land cession, and much else. The year 1763 brings the momentous news of Britain’s final victory over France. With European rivalry now removed, British settlers seem more rather than less intrusive upon Native Americans. Such a reaction prompts both an Indian backlash in the shape of Pontiac’s War and a British administrative scramble to legislate some measures of protection against settler encroachment. Ostenaco is caught up in the consequent maelstrom. Although he maintains his diplomat’s demeanour through the 1760s and the early 1770s, something snaps for Ostenaco in 1775. That year, he witnesses the Cherokee young-blood, Dragging Canoe, stamp his feet and refuse to negotiate with any whites any longer. By 1777 Ostenaco has joined Dragging Canoe’s Chickamauga secessionists. The plot twist in Ostenaco’s story, then, is in how he manages to remain, in his own mind at least, loyally Cherokee while bucking the prevailing Cherokee trend towards surrender. Through a novel turn to non-cooperation, Ostenaco maintains a sense of autonomy from empire till the very end.Less
In late 1762, Ostenaco returns to a changing Appalachia. The chapter narrates the second half of his life, detailing his adventures with home life, war, land cession, and much else. The year 1763 brings the momentous news of Britain’s final victory over France. With European rivalry now removed, British settlers seem more rather than less intrusive upon Native Americans. Such a reaction prompts both an Indian backlash in the shape of Pontiac’s War and a British administrative scramble to legislate some measures of protection against settler encroachment. Ostenaco is caught up in the consequent maelstrom. Although he maintains his diplomat’s demeanour through the 1760s and the early 1770s, something snaps for Ostenaco in 1775. That year, he witnesses the Cherokee young-blood, Dragging Canoe, stamp his feet and refuse to negotiate with any whites any longer. By 1777 Ostenaco has joined Dragging Canoe’s Chickamauga secessionists. The plot twist in Ostenaco’s story, then, is in how he manages to remain, in his own mind at least, loyally Cherokee while bucking the prevailing Cherokee trend towards surrender. Through a novel turn to non-cooperation, Ostenaco maintains a sense of autonomy from empire till the very end.
Aidan Dodson
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789774163043
- eISBN:
- 9781936190041
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774163043.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
This study, drawing on the latest research, tells the story of the decline and fall of the pharaoh Akhenaten's religious revolution in the fourteenth century BC. Beginning at the regime's high-point ...
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This study, drawing on the latest research, tells the story of the decline and fall of the pharaoh Akhenaten's religious revolution in the fourteenth century BC. Beginning at the regime's high-point in his Year 12, it traces the subsequent collapse that saw the deaths of many of the king's loved ones, his attempts to guarantee the revolution through co-rulers, and the last frenzied assault on the god Amun. The book then outlines the events of the subsequent five decades that saw the extinction of the royal line, an attempt to place a foreigner on Egypt's throne, and the accession of three army officers in turn. Among its conclusions are that the mother of Tutankhamun was none other than Nefertiti, and that the queen was joint-pharaoh in turn with both her husband Akhenaten and her son. As such, she was herself instrumental in beginning the return to orthodoxy, undoing her erstwhile husband's life-work before her own mysterious disappearance.Less
This study, drawing on the latest research, tells the story of the decline and fall of the pharaoh Akhenaten's religious revolution in the fourteenth century BC. Beginning at the regime's high-point in his Year 12, it traces the subsequent collapse that saw the deaths of many of the king's loved ones, his attempts to guarantee the revolution through co-rulers, and the last frenzied assault on the god Amun. The book then outlines the events of the subsequent five decades that saw the extinction of the royal line, an attempt to place a foreigner on Egypt's throne, and the accession of three army officers in turn. Among its conclusions are that the mother of Tutankhamun was none other than Nefertiti, and that the queen was joint-pharaoh in turn with both her husband Akhenaten and her son. As such, she was herself instrumental in beginning the return to orthodoxy, undoing her erstwhile husband's life-work before her own mysterious disappearance.
