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Indians in the making : ethnic relations and Indian identities around Puget Sound / Alexandra Harmon.
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 meetings, from the land-based fur trade of the 1820s to the Indian fishing rights activism of the 1970s. Thoroughly researched and theoretically sophisticated, this history shows how notions of Indian identity - both Indian and non-Indian - changed as relations changed. By chronicling such dialogues over 150 years, this study reveals that Indianness itself has a complex history. It is not a timeless essence preserved by some people and lost by others. Examining relations in various spheres of life - labor, public ceremony, marriage and kinship, politics and law - Harmon shows that Indians have continually redefined themselves. Her focus on the negotiations that gave rise to modern Indian identity makes a powerful historical contribution to contemporary discussions of race and ethnicity in America.
Record details
- ISBN: 0520226852
- ISBN: 9780520226852
- Physical Description: xii, 393 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000, c1998.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-372) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Introduction -- Fur traders and natives: empowering encounters -- Settlers and Indians: intertwined peoples -- Treaties and war: ephemeral lines of demarcation -- Refermers and Indians: reservations about reservations -- Indians: dialogues about definitions -- Indians and the United States: wardship or friendship? -- Tribes: new and old organizations -- Treaty fishing rights: an emblem unfurled -- Afterword.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | E 98 .E85 W3 H37 1998 | 249192 | Stacks | Reshelving | - |
| Lummi Library | E 98 .E85 W3 H37 1998 | 271615 | Stacks | Available | - |
| Lummi Library | E 98 .E85 W3 H37 1998 | 284256 | Stacks | Reshelving | - |
| Lummi Library | PNW E 98 .E85 W3 H37 1998 | 260079 | PNW | Available | - |