(D.o.w.n.l.o.a.d) [PDF] The Indian World of George Washington: The
First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
By Colin G. Calloway
George Washington's place in the foundations of the Republic remains unrivalled. His
life story--from his beginnings as a surveyor and farmer, to colonial soldier in the
Virginia Regiment, leader of the Patriot cause, commander of the Continental Army,
and finally first president of the United States--reflects the narrative of the nation he
guided into existence. There is, rightfully, no more chronicled figure.Yet American
history has largely forgotten what Washington himself knew clearly: that the new
Republic's fate depended less on grand rhetoric of independence and self-governance
and more on land--Indian land. Colin G. Calloway's biography of the greatest founding
father reveals in full the relationship between Washington and the Native leaders he
dealt with intimately across the decades: Shingas, Tanaghrisson, Guyasuta,
Attakullakulla, Bloody Fellow, Joseph Brant, Cornplanter, Red Jacket, and Little Turtle,
among many others. Using the prism of Washington's life to bring focus
