| Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790 Contributor(s): O'Brien, Jean M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521561728 ISBN-13: 9780521561723 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $98.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - General - History | Native American |
| Dewey: 974.44 |
| LCCN: 96022551 |
| Series: Studies in North American Indian History |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 9.3" (0.50 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - New England - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: According to Jean O'Brien, Indians did not simply disappear from colonial Natick, Massachusetts as the English extended their domination. Rather, the Indians creatively resisted colonialism, defended their lands, and rebuilt kin networks and community through the strategic use of English cultural practices and institutions. In the late eighteenth century, Natick Indians experienced a process of dispossession by degrees that rendered them invisible within the larger context of the colonial social order, and enabled the construction of the myth of Indian extinction. |
