Dispossession by Degrees

Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650–1790

Inbunden, Engelska, 1997

Av Jean M. O'Brien, Jean M. (University of Minnesota) O'Brien

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum1997-02-28
Mått156 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt530 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in North American Indian History
Antal sidor304
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521561723

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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.

"In this thorough, well-written study of the Native American community of Natick, Massachusettes, Jean O'Brien demonstrates the remarkable evolution in the historical treatment of Indians in New England in the past thirty years....For readers who wish to understand in greater detail how native people came to lose the majority of the vast lands they controlled at the time of the first English settlements in southern New England, this book serves as an admirable case study." North Carolina Historical Review