Quakers and Native Americans

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-35496-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 30, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: European Expansion and Indigenous Response

Quakers and Native Americans examines the history of interactions between Quakers and Native Americans (American Indians). Fourteen scholarly essays cover the period from the 1650s to the twentieth century. American Indians often guided the Quakers by word and example, demanding that they give content to their celebrated commitment to peace. As a consequence, the Quakers’ relations with American Indians has helped define their sense of mission and propelled their rise to influence in the U.S. Quakers have influenced Native American history as colonists, government advisors, and educators, eventually promoting boarding schools, assimilation and the suppression of indigenous cultures. The final two essays in this collection provide Quaker and American Indian perspectives on this history, bringing the story up to the present day.

Contributors include: Ray Batchelor, Lori Daggar, John Echohawk, Stephanie Gamble, Lawrence M. Hauptman, Allison Hrabar, Thomas J. Lappas, Carol Nackenoff, Paula Palmer, Ellen M. Ross, Jean R. Soderlund, Mary Beth Start, Tara Strauch, Marie Balsley Taylor, Elizabeth Thompson, and Scott M. Wert.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gallup-Diaz, Ignacio

Plank, Geoffrey

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Quäker, Religiöse Gesellschaft der Freunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Series Editor’s Preface VII

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

2 The Lenape Origins of Delaware Valley Peace and Freedom

Jean R. Soderlund

3 Apostates in the Woods: Quakers, Praying Indians, and Circuits of Communication in Humphrey Norton’s New England’s Ensigne

Marie Balsley Taylor

4 “The Calamett, a Sure Bond and Seal of Peace”: Native-Pennsylvania Treaties as Religious Discourse

Scott M. Wert

5 “Cast Under Our Care”: Elite Quaker Masculinity and Political Rhetoric about American Indians in the Age of Revolutions

Ray Batchelor

6 “Strong Expressions of Regard”: Native Diplomats and Quakers in Early National Philadelphia

Stephanie Gamble

7 “The Great Spirit Hears All We Now Say”: Philadelphia Quakers and the Seneca, 1798–1850

Ellen M. Ross

8 The Meddlesome Friend: Philip Evan Thomas among the Onöndowa‘ga’: 1838–1861

Lawrence M. Hauptman

9 Tunesassa Echoes and the Temperance Struggle: A Family Tradition at Tunesassa Quaker Indian School, Allegany Indian Reservation across Generations

Thomas J. Lappas

10 Of African and Indian Descent: Creating Mission and Memory in Western Ohio, 1805–1850

Dr. Tara Strauch

11 “A Damnd Rebelious Race”: The U.S. Civilization Plan and Native Authority

Lori Daggar

12 Remembering and Forgetting – Local History and the Kin of Paul Cuffe in an Upper Canadian Quaker Community

Mary Beth Start

13 Saving Indians by Teaching Schoolgirls to Work: Quakers, the Carlisle Institute, and American Indian Assimilation

Elizabeth Thompson

14 Quaker Roles in Making and Implementing Federal Indian Policy: From Grant’s Peace Policy through the early Dawes Act Era (1869–1900)

Carol Nackenoff and Allison Hrabar

15 The Quaker Indian Boarding Schools: Facing our History and Ourselves

Paula Palmer

16 A Shared Vision for Healing

John Echohawk

Über Autor(innen)

Ignacio Gallup-Diaz is Professor of history at Bryn Mawr College. He is the author of The Door of the Seas and Key to the Universe: Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in the Darien, 1640-1750, (Columbia, 2005), and the editor of Colonial America: An Atlantic Handbook, (Routledge, 2017).

Geoffrey Plank teaches history at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of John Woolman’s Path to the Peaceable Kingdom (Penn, 2012), and co-edited, with Brycchan Carey, the essay collection Quakers and Abolition (Illinois, 2014).