Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790

by Jean M. O'Brien

Book Overview

Despite popular belief, Native peoples did not simply disappear from colonial New England as the English extended their domination in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Rather, the Native peoples in such places as Natick, Massachusetts, creatively resisted colonialism, defended their lands, and rebuilt kin networks and community through the strategic use of English cultural practices and institutions. So why did New England settlers believe...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803286198
• ISBN13: 9780803286191
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"