Jackson Warkentin

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American Indians, Colonial North America, Borderlands, Enviromental History

Graduate Student

Office: HSSB 3235
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Advisor: Pekka Hämäläinen

My dissertation will reexamine the motivations and consequences of the Iroquois Five Nations' wars throughout the seventeenth-century. I am interested in the political motivations for these wars, beginning before European contact, and how the Iroquois' political ambition worked in tandem with their cultural motives for violence. To this end, my dissertation is integrating ethnohistorical analysis with narratives of European colonialism. The Iroquois wars limited, enabled, and in general shaped the colonial policies of Europeans in North America's Northeast during the formative years of colonization. My project will therefore show why it is necessary to frame European North American colonialism within the American Indian political context.