The Cutting-Off Way - 9781469673776

The Cutting-Off WayIndigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500-1800\nAuthor(s): Wayne E. Lee\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: The University of North Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781469673776, 978-1469673776\nSynopsis\nIncorporating archeology, anthropology, and cartography into military history, Wayne E. Lee's research has been a standard for scholars of Nativesettler-colonial wars in the early modern, colonial, and early Republic eras, especially European-Indigenous wars and intra-tribal wars in eastern North America. In this volume, Lee revisits and updates his \""cutting-off way of war\"" paradigm to recast Indigenous warfare in a framework of the lived realities of Native people rather than with regard to European and settler military strategies and practices. \n\nIn a mix of classic and new essays, Lee shows that Indigenous people lacked deep reserves of population systems for coercive military recruitment and as suc.