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Northeastern Indian Lives, 1632-1816
Häftad, 1996
687 kr
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These 15 essays examine the lives of important but relatively little-known Native Americans. They explore the complexities of Indian-white relations from the 17th to the early 19th century, from Maine to the Ohio Valley. Figures such as Shickellamy, Awashunkes and Molly Ockett are highlighted.
Pequot War
Häftad, 1996
366 kr
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This book offers the first full-scale analysis of the Pequot War (1636-37), a pivotal event in New England colonial history. Through an innovative rereading of the Puritan sources, Alfred A. Cave refutes claims that settlers acted defensively to counter a Pequot conspiracy to exterminate Europeans. …
King Philip's War
Civil War in New England, 1675-76
Häftad, 2000
366 kr
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This text looks at the 1675 war between the English colonists and the indigenous people of New England, which decimated the region's native population. The author examines the causes of the conflict, and its effects on the relationship between the two cultures.
Indian Women and French Men
Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes
Häftad, 2001
366 kr
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Focusing on the prolonged interaction between Native Americans and Europeans in the Western Great Lakes fur trade, Sleeper-Smith (history, Michigan State U.) argues that, contrary to stereotype, Indians have existed as a viable and distinct people from the earliest times to the present and that, …
Making War and Minting Christians
Masculinity, Religion and Colonialism in Early New England
Häftad, 2011
401 kr
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Traces the interaction of notions of gender, the practice of religion, and the conduct of warfare in colonial America. It shows how Native and Anglo-American ideas of manhood developed in counterpoint, in the context of Christian evangelization, colonial expansion, and recurrent armed conflict.
People of the Standing Stone
The Oneida Nation from the Revolution Through the Era of Removal
Häftad, 2011
356 kr
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This reconstructs the history of a Native American tribe over eight turbulent decades of domination and dislocation.
To Do Good to My Indian Brethren
The Writings of Joseph Johnson, 1751-76
Häftad, 1998
377 kr
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Joseph Johnson's writings and essays, written between 1771 and 1773, document daily life in the Indian Christian communities of Mohegan and Farmington, Connecticut. Commentary by Laura J. Murray illuminates the meaning of Johnson's writings in their historical context.
In Search of New England's Native Past
Selected Essays by Gordon M.Day
Av Gordon M. Day, William Cowan m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
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This volume highlights the work of the late Gordon M. Day, renowned for his groundbreaking research on the history and culture of the Western Abenakis and their Indian neighbors. Where previous historians had tended to portray northern New England as an area largely devoid of aboriginal peoples, …
Indian Giving
Economies of Power in Early Indian-white Exchanges
Av David Murray
Häftad, 2000
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Whether they involved goods, words or ideas, acts of giving and trading were fundamental in early Indian-white contacts. But how did these transactions function across the two cultures, and what did they mean to each? In this book, David Murray explores a range of early exchanges between Europeans …
White Robe's Dilemma
Tribal History in American Literature
Av Neil Schmitz
Häftad, 2001
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This study reconstructs and analyzes the multiple legacies of the Mesquakie people. The author seeks to show how the complex story of their survival raises critical questions about the representation of Indians in American literature and history.
Indian Women and French Men
Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes
Inbunden, 2001
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The Great Lakes region was an important site of cultural as well as economic exchange between native and European peoples in the colonial period. This study focuses on an often overlooked aspect of these interactions - the role played by Indian women who married French traders.
Writing Indians
Literacy, Christianity and Native Community in Early America
Häftad, 2003
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This work examines often overlooked writings of Christian Indians in early America. Wyss argues that the Native Americans who converted to Christianity forged a unique identity as they negotiated their place and power between Native American tribal culture and Protestant Anglo America.
Captive Histories
English, French and Native Narratives of the 1704 Deerfield Raid
Av Evan Haefeli, Kevin Sweeney
Häftad, 2006
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This volume draws together an unusually rich body of original sources that tell the story of the 1704 French and Indian attack on Deerfield, Massachusetts, from different vantage points. Texts range from one of the most famous early American captivity narratives, John Williams' ""The Redeemed …
Wabanaki Homeland and the New State of Maine
The 1820 Journal and Plans of Survey of Joseph Treat
Inbunden, 2007
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In late September 1820, hoping to lay claim to territory then under dispute between Great Britain and the United States, Governor William King of the newly founded state of Maine dispatched Major Joseph Treat to survey public lands on the Penobscot and Saint John Rivers. Traveling well beyond the …
Moving Encounters
Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature
Häftad, 2008
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An old Indian woman comforts two young white children she finds lost in the woods and lovingly carries them back to their eager parents. A frontiersman sheds tears over the grave of a Mohican youth, holding hands with the mourning father.According to Laura L. Mielke, such emotionally charged scenes …
Early Native Literacies in New England
A Documentary and Critical Anthology
Av Kristina Bross, Hilary E. Wyss
Häftad, 2008
457 kr
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Designed as a corrective to colonial literary histories that have excluded Native voices, this anthology brings together a variety of primary texts produced by the Algonquian peoples of New England during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and very early nineteenth centuries. Included among these written …
Experience Mayhew's Indian Converts
A Cultural Edition
Häftad, 2008
395 kr
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This is a new scholarly edition of an important primary text in Native American studies.First published in 1727, under the title ""Indian Converts"", or Some account of the lives and dying speeches of a considerable number of the Christianized Indians of Martha's Vineyard, in New-England, …
Passamaquoddy Ceremonial Songs
Aesthetics and Survival
Inbunden, 2010
677 kr
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This work explores the dynamics of an enduring Native American cultural tradition. Based on extensive research across several disciplines, this book examines the songs and dances involved in public ceremonies of the Wabanaki Confederacy, a coalition of five Algonquian First Nations that figured …
