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Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
By Eustace, Nicole
- ISBN
- 9781631495878
- Publisher
- Liveright: Norton
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Reviewed on March 1, 2021 | Social Sciences
In 1722, the alcohol-fueled murder of a Seneca man, Sawantaeny, by two white fur traders led to the Great Treaty of 1722, "the oldest continuously recognized Indigenous treaty in Anglo-American law." Yet as Eustace (history, New York Univ.; Passion Is the Gale) explains in this thoroughly detailed book, the criminal trial that informed the land treaty arose out of colonists' desire to hang the murderers, while Haudenosaunee Co...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
