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DISPOSSESSION BY DEGREES
INDIAN LAND AND IDENTITY IN NATICK, MASSACHUSETTS, 1650-1790 |
| By: |
Jean M. O'Brien, Frederick E. Hoxie, Neal Salisbury |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£57.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521561728 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521561723 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
28 February, 1997 |
| Series: |
Studies in North American Indian History No.5 |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
O'Brien examines the centrality of land in both the transformation and persistence of Indian identity in New England. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
11 b/w illus. 3 maps |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |