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Jealous Neighbors: Rivalry And Alliance Among The Native Communities Of Detroit, 1701--1766, Andrew Keith Sturtevant
Jealous Neighbors: Rivalry And Alliance Among The Native Communities Of Detroit, 1701--1766, Andrew Keith Sturtevant
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Between the founding of the French post of Detroit in 1701 and the end of Pontiac's War in 1766, several native American peoples settled in distinct clusters around the French (and later British post) near current-day Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario. Focusing on the interactions among these communities, this dissertation makes two interrelated arguments. It first argues that, although these peoples had been challenged and changed by the forces of colonialism during the seventeenth century, they nonetheless emerged from that century as discrete ethnic, social, and political entities, rather than shattered or disintegrated refugees. A set of interconnected, mutually constituting, …
Anthony Burns And The North-South Dialogue On Slavery, Liberty, Race, And The American Revolution, Gordon S. Barker
Anthony Burns And The North-South Dialogue On Slavery, Liberty, Race, And The American Revolution, Gordon S. Barker
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Revisiting the Anthony Burns drama in 1854, the last fugitive slave crisis in Boston, I argue that traditional historical interpretations emphasizing an antislavery groundswell in the North mask the confusion, chaos, ethnic and class tensions, and racial division in the Bay city and also treat Virginia's most famous fugitive slave as an object rather than the Revolutionary and advocate for equal rights that he was. I contend that it was far from clear that antislavery beliefs were on the rise in midcentury Boston. I show that antislavery views had to compete with other less noble, sometimes racist, sentiments and with …
Mothering To Worlds Old And New: Marie De L'Incarnation And Her "Children", Ginger S. Hawkins
Mothering To Worlds Old And New: Marie De L'Incarnation And Her "Children", Ginger S. Hawkins
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Forging A New Indian Religion In Seventeenth-Century Huronia, David John Silverman
Forging A New Indian Religion In Seventeenth-Century Huronia, David John Silverman
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Scourge Of "Discovery": A Case Study Of The Genocide Of Native Americans In English North America, Jayma Ann Abdoo
The Scourge Of "Discovery": A Case Study Of The Genocide Of Native Americans In English North America, Jayma Ann Abdoo
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
A New People In An Age Of War: The Kahnawake Iroquois, 1667--1760, Gretchen Lynn Green
A New People In An Age Of War: The Kahnawake Iroquois, 1667--1760, Gretchen Lynn Green
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study focusses on the Kahnawake Iroquois Indians, a collection of individuals who emigrated from the Iroquois homeland to a Jesuit mission community, or reserve, outside of Montreal, starting in 1667.;Their history and development as a people is traced from the beginnings in 1667 up to the end of the French power in Canada, at the end of the Seven Years' War in 1760. Through the topics of diplomacy, warfare, and trade, these Kahnawake Indians are examined and it is determined that they were important players in the power politics and military balance between the English, the French, and the …
Acculturation Between The Indian And European Fur Traders In Hudson Bay 1668-1821, Lisa C. Mullins
Acculturation Between The Indian And European Fur Traders In Hudson Bay 1668-1821, Lisa C. Mullins
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.