Ep 87: Wayne Lee on Native American Warfare

School of War · Aug 29, 2023 · 1h 2m

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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