Ep 87: Wayne Lee on Native American Warfare
Aug 29, 2023•1 hr 2 min
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Episode description
Wayne Lee, Bruce W. Carney Distinguished Professor of History at UNC and author of The Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500-1800, joins the show to talk about war in the ‘Eastern Woodlands’, both before and after European contact.
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• 01:48 Introduction
• 02:50 Coincidences
• 07:19 “Woods and rivers, deer and rabbits, corn and beans”
• 12:51 Unused land
• 19:29 Sacred spaces
• 21:56 Strategic objectives
• 28:35 Why not occupy?
• 32:50 Logistics
• 41:57 The role of the prisoner
• 49:10 Something like the truth
• 54:34 Offense and defense
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