Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790

Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790

O'Brien, Jean M.

Paperback

Native American HistoryColonial Period (1600-1775)

Publisher Price: $35.00

ISBN10: 0803286198
ISBN13: 9780803286191
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: May 1 2003
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.14
Language: English
Despite popular belief, Native peoples did not simply disappear from colonial New England as the English extended their domination in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Rather, the Native peoples in such places as Natick, Massachusetts, creatively resisted colonialism, defended their lands, and rebuilt kin networks and community through the strategic use of English cultural practices and institutions. So why did New England settlers believe that the Native peoples had vanished? In this thoroughly researched and astutely argued study, historian Jean M. O'Brien reveals that, in the late eighteenth century, the Natick tribe experienced a process of dispossession by degrees, which rendered them invisible within the larger context of the colonial social order, thus enabling the construction of the myth of Indian extinction.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

Native American History

View All