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Indigenous kinship, colonial texts, and the contested space of early New England /

"New England history often treats Indigenous people as minor or secondary actors within the larger colonial story. Focusing on those Native Americans who were sachems, or leaders, in local tribes when Europeans began arriving, Marie Balsley Taylor reframes stories of Indigenous and British inte...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Taylor, Marie Balsley, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2023]
Series:Native Americans of the Northeast.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Indigenous kinship, colonial texts
  • 1. Kinship, captivity, and diplomacy: Locating Wequash in the Indigenous conversion narrative
  • 2. Questions, answers, and treaty-making: Cutshamekin's influence on John Eliot's political imagination
  • 3. Corn, community, and Cassacinamon: Indigenous science in John Winthrop Jr.'s "Of Maiz"
  • 4. Treaties, reciprocity, and providence: The role of Indigenous justice in Daniel Gookin's Doings and Sufferings
  • Epilogue: Remembering and forgetting.