Entangling Empires, Fracturing Frontiers: Jean Baptiste Richardville, 1760-1841

A life and times of Franco-Miami Indian Chief, Jean Baptiste Richardville, 1760-1841. Originally my history dissertation, but heavily modified between 1999 and 2003. An ethnohistorical look at the Miami Indians of the Great Lakes, the Long Portage (now Fort Wayne), and the use of private property and market principles to protect tribal autonomy--against the United Kingdom as well as the United States and larger pan-Indian coalitions.