Ep 87: Wayne Lee on Native American Warfare

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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Times 
    •    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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