Reinterpreting New England Indians and the colonial experience / edited by Colin G. Calloway & Neal Salisbury.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Calloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon), 1953-

Salisbury, Neal.

Colonial Society of Massachusetts.

Series:

Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; v. 71.

Publications of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; v. 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--New England--History.

Indians of North America.

New England.

History.

New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2003.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

For the indigenous peoples of New England -- the Abenaki, Mohegan, Mohican, Narragansett, Nipmuc, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Pequot, Schaghticoke, Wampanoag and other tribal nations -- the colonial period has not yet ended. In light of the contemporary struggles of Native peoples to defend their resources, shape their futures, safeguard their health, and provide for their families the academic study of history may seem to have limited relevance. Yet in a climate and society where Native rights are closely tied to political status and ethnic identity, historical interpretation directly impacts those struggles.

Because colonialism entailed, indeed required, controlling how history is told, native and non-native scholars have tended to write parallel histories without ever examining points of intersection. Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience is the first volume specifically designed to examine the intersection, overlapping, and conflict of the scholar's past and the native present. The chapters include work by younger as well as established scholars, work by natives and non-natives, and collaborative efforts by Indian and non-Indian scholars.

Collectively, the essays suggest some of the new directions scholars are pursuing, as well as some ways of thinking about history that are new to academia but very old in native communities. The authors peer beneath the surface history of events to understand how non-Indian peoples projected and perpetuated colonialism and how Indian peoples in southern New England experienced and responded to it. Although differences in emphasis and interpretation will continue to characterize their scholarship, the authors transform our sense of the New England past, as lived and as written about, and the ways it continues to shape the present.

Contents:

Introduction : decolonizing New England Indian history / Colin G. Calloway and Neal Salisbury

Chickwallop and the beast : Indian responses to European animals in early New England / Virginia Dejohn Anderson

"A little I shall say" : translation and interculturalism in the John Eliot tracts / Joshua David Bellin

Falling "Into a dreame" : Native Americans, colonization, and consciousness in early New England / Ann Marie Plane

The changing nature of Indian slavery in New England, 1670-1720 / Margaret Ellen Newell

Colonizing the children : Indian youngsters in servitude in early Rhode Island / Ruth Wallis Herndon and Ella Wilcox Sekatau

Recovering gendered political histories : local struggles and native women's resistance in colonial southern New England / Trudie Lamb Richmond and Amy E. Den Ouden

"This once savage heart of mine" : Joseph Johnson, Wheelock's "Indians," and the construction of a Christian/Indian identity, 1764-1776 / Tammy Schneider

The church in New England Indian community life : A view from the islands and Cape Cod / David J. Silverman

"We, as a tribe, will rule ourselves" : Mashpee's struggle for autonomy, 1746-1840 / Daniel R. Mandell

"A precarious living" : basket making and related crafts among New England Indians / Nan Wolverton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0962073768

OCLC:

55679151