Our beloved kin : a new history of King Philip's war / Lisa Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooks, Lisa Tanya, author.

Series:

Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Printer, James.

Rowlandson, Mary White, approximately 1635-1711.

Rowlandson, Mary White.

King Philip's War, 1675-1676.

Indians of North America--Wars--1600-1750.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Wars.

Indian captivities.

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

New England.

History.

Local Subjects:

Indians of North America--Wars--1600-1750.

Genre:

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

xv, 431 pages : maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]

Summary:

"With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the "First Indian War" (later named King Philip's War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a female Wampanoag leader, and James Printer, a Nipmuc scholar, whose stories converge in the captivity of Mary Rowlandson. Through both a narrow focus on Weetamoo, Printer, and their network of relations, and a far broader scope that includes vast Indigenous geographies, Brooks leads us to a new understanding of the history of colonial New England and of American origins. In reading seventeenth-century sources alongside an analysis of the landscape and interpretations informed by tribal history, Brooks's pathbreaking scholarship is grounded not just in extensive archival research but also in the land and communities of Native New England."--Jacket flap.

Contents:

Prologue: Caskoak, the place of peace

Part I. The education of Weetamoo and James Printer: exchange, diplomacy, dispossession

Namumpum, "our beloved kinswoman," Saunkskwa of Pocasset: bonds, acts, deeds

The Harvard Indian College scholars and the Algonquian origins of American literature

Interlude: Nashaway: Nipmuc country, 1643-1674

Part II. No single origin story: multiple views on the emergence of war

The Queen's right and the Quaker's relation

Here comes the storm

The printer's revolt: a narrative of the captivity of James the Printer

Part III. Colonial containment and networks of kinship: expanding the map of captivity, resistance, and alliance

The roads leading North: September 1675-January 1676

Interlude: "My children are here and I will stay": Menimesit, January 1676

The captive's lament: reinterpreting Rowlandson's narrative

Part IV. The place of peace and the ends of war

Unbinding the ends of war

The Northern front: beyond replacement narratives.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-424) and index.

ISBN:

0300196733

9780300196733

OCLC:

982565966