Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521561723)

According to Jean O'Brien, Indians did not simply disappear from colonial Natick, Massachusetts as the English extended their domination. Rather, the Indians creatively resisted colonialism, defended their lands, and rebuilt kin networks and community through the strategic use of English cultural practices and institutions. In the late eighteenth century, Natick Indians experienced a process of "dispossession by degrees" that rendered them invisible within the larger context of the colonial social order, and enabled the construction of the myth of Indian extinction.

Author: Jean M. O'Brien
ISBN-10: 0521561728
ISBN-13: 9780521561723
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/28/1997
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 5.90w x 0.70d