Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780-1880
Winner, 2008 Lawrence W. Levine Award, Organization of American Historians
Tribe, Race, History examines American Indian communities in southern New England between the Revolution and Reconstruction, when Indians lived in the region’s socioeconomic margins, moved between semiautonomous communities and towns, and intermarried extensively with blacks and whites.
Drawing from a wealth of primary documentation, Daniel R. Mandell centers his study on ethnic boundaries, particularly how those boundaries were constructed, perceived, and crossed. He analyzes connections and distinctions between Indians and their non-Indian neighbors with regard to labor, landholding, government, and religion; examines how emerging romantic depictions of Indians (living and dead) helped shape a unique New England identity; and looks closely at the causes and results of tribal termination in the region after the Civil War.
Shedding new light on regional developments in class, race, and culture, this groundbreaking study is the first to consider all Native Americans throughout southern New England.
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Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780-1880
Winner, 2008 Lawrence W. Levine Award, Organization of American Historians
Tribe, Race, History examines American Indian communities in southern New England between the Revolution and Reconstruction, when Indians lived in the region’s socioeconomic margins, moved between semiautonomous communities and towns, and intermarried extensively with blacks and whites.
Drawing from a wealth of primary documentation, Daniel R. Mandell centers his study on ethnic boundaries, particularly how those boundaries were constructed, perceived, and crossed. He analyzes connections and distinctions between Indians and their non-Indian neighbors with regard to labor, landholding, government, and religion; examines how emerging romantic depictions of Indians (living and dead) helped shape a unique New England identity; and looks closely at the causes and results of tribal termination in the region after the Civil War.
Shedding new light on regional developments in class, race, and culture, this groundbreaking study is the first to consider all Native Americans throughout southern New England.
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Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780-1880
Winner, 2008 Lawrence W. Levine Award, Organization of American Historians
Tribe, Race, History examines American Indian communities in southern New England between the Revolution and Reconstruction, when Indians lived in the region’s socioeconomic margins, moved between semiautonomous communities and towns, and intermarried extensively with blacks and whites.
Drawing from a wealth of primary documentation, Daniel R. Mandell centers his study on ethnic boundaries, particularly how those boundaries were constructed, perceived, and crossed. He analyzes connections and distinctions between Indians and their non-Indian neighbors with regard to labor, landholding, government, and religion; examines how emerging romantic depictions of Indians (living and dead) helped shape a unique New England identity; and looks closely at the causes and results of tribal termination in the region after the Civil War.
Shedding new light on regional developments in class, race, and culture, this groundbreaking study is the first to consider all Native Americans throughout southern New England.
Daniel R. Mandell is a professor of history at Truman State University. He is the author of Behind the Frontier: Indians in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts, King Philip's War: Colonial Expansion, Native Resistance, End of Indian Sovereignty, and Behind the Frontier: Indians in Eighteenth-Century Eastern Massachusetts, and The Lost Tradition of Economic Equality in America, 1600–1870.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Land and LaborTribal ReservesSmall CommunitiesWork off the ReservationIndian Reserves as Refuges2. Community and FamilyIndian Networks in the Early RepublicMarriages with "Foreigners & Strangers"Anglo-American Views of Indian IntermarriageIndian Views of Race and IntermarriageIntermarriage and Assimilation3. Authority and AutonomyGuardians ReappointedMashpee and Gideon HawleyThe Standing Order, Class, and IndiansGuardians and Tribal ChallengesThe Mashpee Revolt4. Reform and RenascenceMaintaining InstitutionsIndians, the Society for Propagating the Gospel, and ReformsIndians, State Governments, and Economic EnterpriseRenascence and Resistance5. Reality and ImageryIndians at MidcenturyEmployment and WorkwaysTribal Identity and PoliticsImages of IndiansLocal Histories6. Citizenship and TerminationRace and Civil RightsProposing TerminationRejecting TerminationCompelling TerminationEpilogueList of AbbreviationsNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
A detailed, richly textured social history of Native people. Mandell accomplishes more than reconstructing and narrating the social history of tribal groups over the course of a century. He examines how Native social relations and collective consciousness revolved around complicated and adaptable racial and ethnic identities and consistently situates his analysis of Native life in the larger contexts of New England and American social and cultural history.
— Joseph A. Conforti, author of Saints and Strangers: New England in British North America
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A detailed, richly textured social history of Native people. Mandell accomplishes more than reconstructing and narrating the social history of tribal groups over the course of a century. He examines how Native social relations and collective consciousness revolved around complicated and adaptable racial and ethnic identities and consistently situates his analysis of Native life in the larger contexts of New England and American social and cultural history.—Joseph A. Conforti, author of Saints and Strangers: New England in British North America
