Beyond Conquest Native Peoples and the Struggle for History in New England / Amy E. Den Ouden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Den Ouden, Amy E.

Series:

Fourth world rising.

Fourth world rising

Fourth World Rising

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Connecticut--Politics and government.

Connecticut.

Local history--Connecticut.

Local history.

Indians of North America--Land tenure--Connecticut.

Indians of North America.

Indians, Treatment of--Connecticut--History.

Indians, Treatment of.

Indians of North America--Connecticut--Historiography.

Connecticut--Historiography.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 303 p. )

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Publisher description: By focusing on the complex cultural and political facets of Native resistance to encroachment on reservation lands during the eighteenth century in southern New England, Beyond Conquest reconceptualizes indigenous histories and debates over Native land rights. As Amy E. Den Ouden demonstrates, Mohegans, Pequots, and Niantics living on reservations in New London County, Connecticut--where the largest indigenous population in the colony resided--were under siege by colonists who employed various means to expropriate reserved lands. Natives were also subjected to the policies of a colonial government that sought to strictly control them and that undermined Native land rights by depicting reservation populations as culturally and politically illegitimate. Although colonial tactics of rule sometimes incited internal disputes among Native women and men, reservation communities and their leaders engaged in subtle and sometimes overt acts of resistance to dispossession, thus demonstrating the power of historical consciousness, cultural connections to land, and ties to local kin. The Mohegans, for example, boldly challenged colonial authority and its land encroachment policies in 1736 by holding a "great dance," during which they publicly affirmed the leadership of Mahomet and, with the support of their Pequot and Niantic allies, articulated their intent to continue their legal case against the colony. Beyond Conquest demonstrates how the current Euroamerican scrutiny and denial of local Indian identities is a practice with a long history in southern New England, one linked to colonial notions of cultural--and ultimately "racial"--illegitimacy that emerged in the context of eighteenth-century disputes regarding Native land rights.

Contents:

Dilemmas of conquest

Manufacturing colonial legitimacy

Colonial law and Native lives

Only an Indian's story

Now they make us as goats

"Race" and the denial of local histories.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786610374663

9781280374661

1280374667

9780803251670

080325167X

OCLC:

62145037

Publisher Number:

9780803217256

9780803266582

9780803251670