Firsting and Lasting Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England

Name: Firsting and Lasting Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England
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ISBN: 9780816665785

ISBN-10: 0816665788

ISBN-13: 9780816665785

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jean M. O'Brien, Jean M. O'Brien

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Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote hundreds of local histories about the founding and growth of their cities and towns. Ranging from pamphlets to multivolume treatments, these narratives shared a preoccupation with establishing the region as the cradle of an Anglo-Saxon nation and the center of a modern American culture. They also insisted, often in mournful tones, that New England's original inhabitants, the Indians, had become extinct, even though many Indians still lived in the very towns being chronicled.InFirsting and Lasting, Jean M. O'Brien argues that local histories became a primary means by which European Americans asserted their own…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 5/10/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.46" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Jean M. O'Brien (White Earth Ojibwe) is professor of history at the University of Minnesota. She is author of Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790, and Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England.



Author's Note on Sources


Introduction: Indians Can Never Be Modern



Firsting: Local Texts Claim Indian Places As Their Own



Replacing: Historical Practices Argue That Non-Indians Have Supplanted Indians



Lasting: Text Purify the Landscape of Indians by Denying Them a Place in Modernity



Resisting: Claims in Texts about Indian Extinction Fail Even As They Are Being Made


Conclusion: The Continuing Struggle over Recognition


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index