Presence, Violence, Absence, and Heritage: Exploring Indigenous-Settler Interactions across Centuries of Pennsylvania History
October 11 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Presence, Violence, Absence, and Heritage: Exploring Indigenous-Settler Interactions across Centuries of Pennsylvania History
Chair/Commenter: David Horst Lehman, Westminster College
“A Little Valley’s Hopes of Prosperity and Preservation Amid Chaos: Swedish Incorporation of English Imperialism in the Delaware Valley and the Decline of Lenape Power Before the Arrival of William Penn: 1669-1682”
Cole Mellinger, Independent Scholar
“Those Abandoned People”: Extralegal Violence and the Construction of Indian Policy on the Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1754-1768”
Sarah Donovan, College of William & Mary
“Presence and Absence in Pennsylvania: Reframing a Revolutionary Museum Object”
Laura Macaluso, Independent Scholar