Summary Of We Have Always Been The Frontier Calloway

The article, “We Have Always Been the Frontier” by Colin G. Calloway discusses the Native Americans, specifically the Shawnee tribe, and their role and perspective in the American Revolution. Calloway is a well-known British-American historian who focuses his research on Native Americans. Calloway concentrates on the importance and the perspective of the Shawnee Native American Indian tribe in the American Revolution and how secondly, they came in importance to the whole American Revolution compared to the central importance, the Americans and British.1 This essay will go into depth and discuss how the American Revolution can look different from the perspective of the Shawnee tribe and how the war transformed the Shawnee villages.

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The American Revolution was a major part of the United States of America’s history as it was the beginning of their independence. Many American Revolutionary articles include information on the political and cultural aspects of the revolution, but the inclusion of Native American people during the American Revolution is non-existent. Through observations of many historical articles, the only inclusion of Native American’s being portrayed in their writing is if their main research is on Native Americans, such as Colin G. Calloway and Ethan A. Schmidt. These historians discuss the significance of the Revolution through the Native Americans and how limited historical articles there are discussing their perspective.8 Calloway believes the Native Americans aren’t represented as well as they should be and uses his academic historical writing to tell their story. This academic piece of writing by Calloway was presented at the 1990 Meeting of the Organisation of American Historians. In other pieces of work by other historians, there is a significant amount of people who praise Calloway’s research. Few historians have based their research on different tribes in North America. Such as historian Ethan A. Schmidt, who published a book based on the Native Americans in the Revolution, he accounted for Native