Becoming Brothertown: Native American Ethnogenesis and Endurance in the Modern World

by Craig N. Cipolla

Book Overview

Histories of New England typically frame the region's Indigenous populations in terms of effects felt from European colonialism: the ravages of epidemics and warfare, the restrictions of reservation life, and the influences of European-introduced ideas, customs, and materials. Much less attention is given to how Algonquian peoples actively used and transformed European things, endured imposed hardships, and negotiated their own identities. In Becoming...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816530300
• ISBN13: 9780816530304
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"