Indians in the making : ethnic relations and Indian identities around Puget Sound
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Indians in the making : ethnic relations and Indian identities around Puget Sound
（American crossroads, 3）
University of California Press, 2000, c1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-372) and index
"First paperback printing 2000"--T.p. verso
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Description
In the Puget Sound region of Washington state, indigenous people 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.
Table of Contents
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
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