Indians in the Making - Ethnic Relations & Indian Identities around Puget Sound

1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-520-22685-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 405 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: American Crossroads

In the Puget Sound region of Washington state, indigenous peoples and their descendants have a long history of interaction with settlers and their descendants. Indians in the Making offers the first comprehensive account of these interactions, from contact with traders of the 1820s to the Indian fishing rights activism of the 1970s. In this thoroughly researched history, Alexandra Harmon also provides a theoretically sophisticated analysis that charts shifting notions of Indian identity, both in native and in nonnative communities.

During the period under consideration, each major shift in demographic, economic, and political conditions precipitated new deliberations about how to distinguish Indians from non-Indians and from each other. By chronicling such dialogues over 150 years, this groundbreaking study reveals that Indian identity has a complex history. Examining relations in various spheres of life—labor, public ceremony, marriage and kinship, politics and law—Harmon shows how Indians have continually redefined themselves. Her focus on the negotiations that have given rise to modern Indian identity makes a significant contribution to the discourse of contemporary multiculturalism and ethnic studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harmon, Alexandra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

1. FUR TRADERS AND NATIVES:

EMPOWERING ENCOUNTERS

2. SETTLERS AND INDIANS: INTERTWINED PEOPLES

3· TREATIES AND WAR:

EPHEMERAL LINES OF DEMARCATION

4. REFORMERS AND INDIANS:

RESERVATIONS ABOUT RESERVATIONS

5. INDIANS: DIALOGUES ABOUT DEFINITIONS

6. INDIANS AND THE UNITED STATES:

WARDSHIP OR FRIENDSHIP?

7. TRIBES: NEW AND OLD ORGANIZATIONS

8. TREATY FISHING RIGHTS: AN EMBLEM UNFURLED

AFTERWORD

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alexandra Harmon is Assistant Professor in the American Indian Studies Center at the University of Washington.