Memory Lands : King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast / Christine M. DeLucia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delucia, Christine M., author.

Series:

Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity.

The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

King Philip's War (1675-1676).

King Philip's War, 1675-1676.

Collective memory--New England.

Collective memory.

New England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (496 pages).

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as King Philip's War, providing an alternative to Pilgrim-centric narratives that have conventionally dominated the histories of colonial New England. DeLucia grounds her study of one of the most devastating conflicts between Native Americans and European settlers in early America in five specific places that were directly affected by the crisis, spanning the Northeast as well as the Atlantic world. She examines the war's effects on the everyday lives and collective mentalities of the region's diverse Native and Euro-American communities over the course of several centuries, focusing on persistent struggles over land and water, sovereignty, resistance, cultural memory, and intercultural interactions. An enlightening work that draws from oral traditions, archival traces, material and visual culture, archaeology, literature, and environmental studies, this study reassesses the nature and enduring legacies of a watershed historical event.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface: Memories of Corn and Quartz - Rethinking Stories of Violence and Survivance

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Placemaking and Memorializing After the Great Watershed

PART I. THE WAY TO DEER ISLAND

1. Contested Passages Coastal and Inland Homelands, Bastoniak, and Internment by the "City Upon a Hill"

2. Protesting the "Perfect City" Reorganizing Native Memoryscapes across Greater Boston

PART II. THE NARRAGANSETT COUNTRY

3. Habitations by Narragansett Bay Coastal Homelands, Encounters with Roger Williams, and Routes to Great Swamp

4. Monumentalizing after "Detribalization," and Swamp Discourse from Casinos to Carcieri

PART III. THE GREAT RIVER

5. The Gathering Place: A Trafficked Waterway, Dawn Massacre, and Material Legacies of the "Falls Fight"

6. Power and Persistence along a Changing River: Industrial Transformations, Ceremonial Landscapes, and Contemporary Reconciliations

PART IV. THE RED ATLANTIC

7. Algonquian Diasporas: Indigenous Bondages, Fugitive Geographies, and the Edges of Atlantic Memories

Conclusion: Reopening History

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

0-300-23112-1

OCLC:

1017098794