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This is a Russian translation of Chapter 2 “The Middle Ground” from the book: Richard White,
The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region,
1650–1815 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 50-93.
© 1991 Cambridge University Press.
Published with kind permission of the author and Cambridge University Press.
Translated from English by Vladimir Makarov.