Lafayette Joins the American Army.

This chapter details how Indians used hunger to fight back. During the summer of 1779, the rebel American army mounted a devastating victual-warfare campaign, known today as the Sullivan Campaign, against Britain's Iroquois allies. Two major related changes occurred after the expedition. First, British descriptions of Iroquois hunger by the 1780s allowed most officials to envision Indians as useful mouths who could overlook hunger while also requiring more provisions. This altered perception of Iroquois hunger created a second change: a reworking of Iroquoian food diplomacy into something more violent than its previous iterations. Iroquoian food diplomacy in the American Revolution was constituted, in part, by mutual fasting—a policy the Indians sometimes had to enforce through the use of aggression. This diplomacy took Indian requests for certain types of provisions into account, obliging non-Natives to go out of their way to accommodate Native tastes. The American Revolution ravaged Indian communities, including Iroquois ones, but, during the war, changing British perceptions of hungry Indians allowed the Iroquois to challenge the state of power relations at a time when contemporaries assumed they were powerless in the face of crop destruction and land losses. Iroquois abilities to ignore and endure hunger made it impossible for their British allies to think of them as useless mouths.

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13. The Bandit, the Gangster, and the American Army Shorts: Michael Cimino’s The Sicilian

Mafia Movies ◽

10.3138/9781487510466-014 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 98-102

Keyword(s):

American Army

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XVII.—The Annual Incidence of Intelligence, and its Measurement by the American Army Tests

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ◽

10.1017/s0370164600009895 ◽

1922 ◽

Vol 41 ◽

pp. 150-153

Author(s):

M. McCallum Fairgrieve

Keyword(s):

Annual Incidence ◽

Mental Tests ◽

American Army

The following investigation was undertaken to verify by the American Army Tests a result previously obtained by the use of Mr Cyril Burt's tests of intelligence (Journal of Experimental Pedagogy, vol. vi, No. 1), i.e. that there appears to be some likelihood that boys born in the spring months are slightly less intelligent on the average than those born in other months. Of these American tests (see Mental Tests in the American Army, C. S. Yoakum and R. M. Yerkes, pp. 220–230) the groups of tests marked “form 6” were used; but “test 8” was modified to suit British conditions by using test 8 of group 9 (p. 274, loc. cit.) as a basis, and replacing tests 1, 3, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 19, 35, 36, 38 by 8,1; 6, 3; 7, 39; 8, 39; 6, 35; 7, 36; 7, 38; 6, 39, and by three others of local interest.

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