Firsting and Lasting - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Firsting and Lasting write by Jean M. Obrien. This book was released on 2010-05-10. Firsting and Lasting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote hundreds of local histories about the founding and growth of their cities and towns. Ranging from pamphlets to multivolume treatments, these narratives shared a preoccupation with establishing the region as the cradle of an Anglo-Saxon nation and the center of a modern American culture. They also insisted, often in mournful tones, that New England’s original inhabitants, the Indians, had become extinct, even though many Indians still lived in the very towns being chronicled. InFirsting and Lasting, Jean M. O’Brien argues that local histories became a primary means by which European Americans asserted their own modernity while denying it to Indian peoples. Erasing and then memorializing Indian peoples also served a more pragmatic colonial goal: refuting Indian claims to land and rights. Drawing on more than six hundred local histories from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island written between 1820 and 1880, as well as censuses, monuments, and accounts of historical pageants and commemorations, O’Brien explores how these narratives inculcated the myth of Indian extinction, a myth that has stubbornly remained in the American consciousness. In order to convince themselves that the Indians had vanished despite their continued presence, O’Brien finds that local historians and their readers embraced notions of racial purity rooted in the century’s scientific racism and saw living Indians as “mixed” and therefore no longer truly Indian. Adaptation to modern life on the part of Indian peoples was used as further evidence of their demise. Indians did not—and have not—accepted this effacement, and O’Brien details how Indians have resisted their erasure through narratives of their own. These debates and the rich and surprising history uncovered in O’Brien’s work continue to have a profound influence on discourses about race and indigenous rights.
Dispossession by Degrees
Dispossession by Degrees - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dispossession by Degrees write by Jean M. O'Brien. This book was released on 2003-05-01. Dispossession by Degrees available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite popular belief, Native peoples did not simply disappear from colonial New England as the English extended their domination in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Rather, the Native peoples in such places as Natick, Massachusetts, creatively resisted colonialism, defended their lands, and rebuilt kin networks and community through the strategic use of English cultural practices and institutions. So why did New England settlers believe that the Native peoples had vanished? In this thoroughly researched and astutely argued study, historian Jean M. O?Brien reveals that, in the late eighteenth century, the Natick tribe experienced a process of ?dispossession by degrees,? which rendered them invisible within the larger context of the colonial social order, thus enabling the construction of the myth of Indian extinction.
Native Americans
Native Americans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Native Americans write by Norman Bancroft Hunt. This book was released on 1996-07-01. Native Americans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fifty full-color paintings and hundreds of period photographs capture the lives and cultures of the Native American tribes, in a region by region survey of their societies, dwellings, lifestyles, traditions, and more.
First Peoples, First Contacts
First Peoples, First Contacts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook First Peoples, First Contacts write by Jonathan C. H. King. This book was released on 1999. First Peoples, First Contacts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the Big-Game Hunters who appeared on the continent as far back as 12,000 years ago to the Inuits plying the Alaskan waters today, the Native peoples of North America produced a culture remarkable for its vibrancy, breadth, and diversity--and for its survival in the face of almost inconceivable trials. This book is at once a history of that culture and a celebration of its splendid variety. Rich in historical testimony and anecdotes and lavishly illustrated, it weaves a magnificent tapestry of Native American life reaching back to the earliest human records. A recognized expert in North American studies, Jonathan King interweaves his account with Native histories, from the arrival of the first Native Americans by way of what is now Alaska to their later encounters with Europeans on the continent's opposite coast, from their exchanges with fur traders to their confrontations with settlers and an ever more voracious American government. To illustrate this history, King draws on the extensive collections of the British Museum--artwork, clothing, tools, and artifacts that demonstrate the wealth of ancient traditions as well as the vitality of contemporary Native culture. These illustrations, all described in detail, form a pictorial document of relations between Europeans and Native American peoples--peoples as profoundly different and as deeply related as the Algonquians and the Iroquois, the Chumash of California and the Inuipat of Alaska, the Cree and the Cherokee--from their first contact to their complicated coexistence today.
American Indians
American Indians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Indians write by Jack Utter. This book was released on 2001. American Indians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Answer to today's questions.
