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Covered with night : a story of murder and indigenous justice in early America

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"An immersive tale of the killing of a Native American man and its far-reaching consequences for Colonial America. In the summer of 1722, on the eve of a conference between the Five Nations of the Iroquois and British-American colonists, two colonial furtraders brutally attacked an Indigenous hunter in colonial Pennsylvania. The crime set the entire mid-Atlantic on edge, with many believing that war was imminent. Frantic efforts to resolve the case created a contest between Native American forms of justice, centered on community, forgiveness, and reparations, and an ideology of harsh reprisal, based on British law, that called for the killers' execution. In a stunning narrative history based on painstaking original research, acclaimed historian Nicole Eustace reconstructs the crime and its aftermath, taking us into the worlds of Euro-Americans and Indigenous peoples in this formative period. A feat of reclamation evoking Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's A Midwife's Tale and Alan Taylor's William Cooper's Town, Eustace's utterly absorbing account provides a new understanding of Indigenous forms of justice, with lessons for our era"--

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Ruth Keeler Memorial Library 364.1523 E (Text)
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Scarsdale Public Library 364.152 E (Text)
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Somers Library 364.1523 E (Text)
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Warner Library 364.152 E (Text)
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White Plains Public Library 364.1523 E (Text)
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31544101218774
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Yonkers Crestwood Library 364.15 E (Text)
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31035162255979
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Yonkers Crestwood Library 364.15 E (Text)
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31035614010477
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Yonkers Grinton I. Will Library 364.15 E (Text)
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31035613063709
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Yonkers Riverfront Library 364.15 E (Text)
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31035612074434
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