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How The West Was Drawn: Mapping, Indians, And The Construction Of The Transmississippi West (Borderlands And Transcultural Stud,Used
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How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and American contest for imperial control of the Great Plains during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. David Bernstein argues that the American West was a collaborative construction between Native peoples and EuroAmerican empires that developed cartographic processes and culturally specific maps, which in turn reflected encounter and conflict between settler states and indigenous peoples.Bernstein explores the cartographic creation of the TransMississippi West through an interdisciplinary methodology in geography and history. He shows how the Pawnees and the Iowaswedged between powerful Osages, Sioux, the horse and captiverich Comanche Empire, French fur traders, Spanish merchants, and American Indian agents and explorersdevised strategies of survivance and diplomacy to retain autonomy during this era. The Pawnees and the Iowas developed a strategy of cartographic resistance to predations by both EuroAmerican imperial powers and strong indigenous empires, navigating the volatile and rapidly changing world of the Great Plains by brokering their spatial and territorial knowledge either to stronger indigenous nations or to much weaker and conquerable American and European powers.How the West Was Drawn is a revisionist and interdisciplinary understanding of the global imperial contest for North Americas Great Plains that illuminates in fine detail the strategies of survival of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas amid accommodation to predatory EuroAmerican and Native empires.
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