Dispossession By Degrees Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 16501790

Klappentext According to Jean O'Brien, Indians did not simply disappear from colonial Natick, Massachusetts, as the English extended their domination. Rather, the Indians creatively resisted colonialism, defended their lands, and rebuilt kin networks and community through the strategic use of English cultural practices and institutions. In the late eighteenth century, Natick Indians experienced a process of 'dispossession by degrees' that rendered them invisible within the larger context of the colonial social order, and enabled the construction of the myth of Indian extinction. Zusammenfassung O'Brien examines the centrality of land in both the transformation and persistence of Indian identity in New England! and in the place of Indians in the colonial English social order. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: 'My Land': Natick and the Narrative of Indian Extinction; Chapter 1: Peoples, Land, and Social Order; Chapter 2: The Sinews and the Flesh: Natick Comes Together, 1650-1675; Chapter 3: 'Friend Indians': Negotiating Colonial Rules, 1676-1700; Chapter 4: Divided In Their Desires; Chapter 5: Interlude: The Proprietary Families; Chapter 6: 'They Are So Frequently Shifting Their Place Of Residence': Natick Indians, 1741-1790; Conclusion.

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• Authors: O'Brien Jean M., Jean M. (University of Minnesota) O''brien, Jean M. O''brien, O&apos, &apos, Jean M. brien, Jean M. O'Brien
• Assisted by: Frederick Hoxie (Editor), Neal Salisbury (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 28.02.1997
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
• EAN: 9780521561723
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56172-3
• Pages: 304
• Series: Studies in North American Indi > 0005; Studies in North American Indian History
• Subjects: USA, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, United States of America, USA, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of the Americas, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800