Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America, Hardcover/David J. Silverman
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The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the
seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the
history of North America's indigenous peoples--a cultural
earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has
yet to be adequately measured. Thundersticks reframes our
understanding of Indians' historical relationship with guns,
arguing against the notion that they prized these weapons more for
the pyrotechnic terror guns inspired than for their efficiency as
tools of war. Native peoples fully recognized the potential of
firearms to assist them in their struggles against colonial forces,
and mostly against one another. The smoothbore, flintlock musket
was Indians' stock firearm, and its destructive potential
transformed their lives. For the deer hunters east of the
Mississippi, the gun evolved into an essential hunting tool. Most
importantly, well-armed tribes were able to capture and enslave
their neighbors, plunder wealth, and conquer territory. Arms races
erupted across North America, intensifying intertribal rivalries
and solidifying the importance of firearms in Indian politics and
culture. Though American tribes grew dependent on guns manufactured
in Europe and the United States, their dependence never prevented
them from rising up against Euro-American power. The Seminoles,
Blackfeet, Lakotas, and others remained formidably armed right up
to the time of their subjugation. Far from being a Trojan horse for
colonialism, firearms empowered American Indians to pursue their
interests and defend their political and economic autonomy over two
centuries.
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