Native Providence : memory, community, and survivance in the Northeast / Patricia E. Rubertone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rubertone, Patricia E., author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban Indigenous peoples--North America--Rhode Island--Providence.

Urban Indigenous peoples.

Indians of North America--Rhode Island--Providence--Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation--Rhode Island--Providence.

Narragansett Indians--Cultural assimilation.

Narragansett Indians.

Cultural landscapes--Rhode Island--Providence.

Cultural landscapes.

Indians of North America--Rhode Island--Providence--Genealogy.

Indians of North America--Rhode Island--Providence--Biography.

Assimilation (Sociology).

Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation.

Antiquities.

Providence (R.I.)--Genealogy.

Providence (R.I.).

Providence (R.I.)--Biography.

Providence (R.I.)--History.

Rhode Island--Providence.

Genre:

Biographies.

Genealogy.

Family histories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 434 pages) : illustrations, maps

Other Title:

Memory, community, and survivance in the Northeast

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title A city of modest size, Providence, Rhode Island, had the third-largest Native American population in the United States by the first decade of the twentieth century. Native Providence tells their stories at this historical moment and in the decades before and after, a time when European Americans claimed that Northeast Natives had mostly vanished. Denied their rightful place in modernity, men, women, and children from Narragansett, Nipmuc, Pequot, Wampanoag, and other ancestral communities traveled diverse and complicated routes to make their homes in this city. They found each other, carved out livelihoods, and created neighborhoods that became their urban homelands--new places of meaningful attachments. Accounts of individual lives and family histories emerge from historical and anthropological research in archives, government offices, historical societies, libraries, and museums and from community memories, geography, and landscape. Patricia E. Rubertone chronicles the survivance of the Native people who stayed, left and returned, who faced involuntary displacement by urban renewal, who lived in Provi-dence briefly, or who made their presence known both there and in the wider indigenous and settler-colonial worlds. These individuals reenvision the city's past through everyday experiences and illuminate documentary and spatial tactics of inequality that erased Native people from most nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history.

Contents:

Narrating Indigeneity in a "Thoroughfare Town"

Fox Point: A Waterfront Homeland, Encounters at a Stopping-Over Place, and Indigenous Legibility

Lippitt Hill: Homelands of the Hill and Hollows, Unholy Water, and Traditional Knowledge

Upper South Providence: Homeland at the Crossroads, Churchgoing and Community Making

Lower South Providence: Habitations by the River and Bay, Mobility, and the Urban Imaginary

Mashapaug Pond: The Pond Lands, From Planting Fields to Industrial Transformations

Federal Hill: Homeland above the River at the Town's Doorstep, Commonplace Streets, and Uncommon Labor

Johnston: Homeland at the Borderlands, Powwows, and Urban Mythscapes

Imagining Past, Present and Future Urbanity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

ISBN:

9781496224019

1496224019

Publisher Number:

99985855182

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.