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New histories for old : changing perspectives on Canada's native pasts
The collection combines essays by prominent senior historians, geographers, and anthropologists with contributions by new voices in these fields, to shed new light on the history of scholarship on Canada's Aboriginal past.
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The nature of empires and the empires of nature : Indigenous peoples and the Great Lakes environment
Explores the power of Nature and the attempts by Empires (United States, Canada, and Britain) to control it from Indigenous or Indigenous influenced perspectives. This title hopes to inspire ways of looking at the Great Lakes watershed and the people and empires contained within it.
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Firsting and Lasting
Firsting and Lasting argues that local histories became a primary means by which European Americans asserted their own modernity while denying it to Indian peoples. Drawing on more than six hundred local histories from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, Jean M. O’Brien explores how these narratives inculcated the myth of Indian extinction, a myth that has stubbornly remained in the American consciousness.
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Healing histories : stories from Canada's Indian hospitals
A collection of Aboriginal perspectives on the history of tuberculosis in Canada's indigenous communities and on the federal government's Indian Health Services. This book features oral accounts from patients, families, and workers who experienced Canada's Indian Hospital system. An intercultural history that models new methodologies and ethics for researching and writing about indigenous Canada based on indigenous understandings of \"story\" and its critical role in Aboriginal historicity, while moving beyond routine colonial interpretations of victimization, oppression, and cultural destruction.
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The Eastern Archaic, historicized
The Eastern Archaic, Historicized offers an alternative perspective on the genesis and transformation of cultural diversity over eight millennia of hunter-gatherer dwelling in eastern North America. For many decades, archaeological understanding of Archaic diversity has been dominated by perspectives that emphasize localized relationships between humans and environment. The evidence, shows, however that Archaic people routinely associated with other groups throughout eastern North America and expressed themselves materially in ways that reveal historical links to other places and times. Starting with the colonization of eastern North America by two distinct ancestral lines, the Eastern Archaic was an era of migrations, ethnogenesis, and coalescence—an 8,200-year era of making histories through interactions and expressing them culturally in ritual and performance.
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The Rest of Us: Rethinking Settler and Native
The company granted Afrikaner farmers on the frontier the right to form \"commandos,\" which waged war with the indigenous population over grazing land.Since it was difficult to bring enslaved Africans into the interior, a law was passed in 1775 permitting Afrikaners to \"apprentice\" all captured Africans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, although this form of enslavement did not solve the colony's perennial labor shortage.[...]an enterprising African peasantry adapted to the market economy and thrived, particularly after the diamond rush to Kimberly.Because they competed with white farmers who needed labor and demanded higher prices for their goods, laws were passed prohibiting African land ownership and imposing more stringent systems of contract labor.The law forced Africans to live in the reserves, squeezing 87 percent of the population onto 13 percent of the land and ensuring a consistent flow of labor to mines and white farms.9 Obviously, the history of settler colonialism in South Africa is far more complex and, in fact, the rise of the Afrikaner National Party in 1948 and the introduction of apartheid, and ascent of the Rhodesian Front in southern Rhodesia in 1962, signaled a strengthening of white settler rule just as most African colonies were achieving independence.[...]I think Wolfe's framework of settler colonialism can benefit from reading Robinson, Peter Linebaugh, The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century, and more recently Lisa Lowe's Intimacies of Four Continents.
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Call for Change
For too many years, the academic discipline of history has ignored American Indians or lacked the kind of open-minded thinking necessary to truly understand them. Most historians remain oriented toward the American experience at the expense of the Native experience. As a result, both the status and the quality of Native American history have suffered and remain marginalized within the discipline. In this impassioned work, noted historian Donald L. Fixico challenges academic historians-and everyone else-to change this way of thinking. Fixico argues that the current discipline and practice of American Indian history are insensitive to and inconsistent with Native people's traditions, understandings, and ways of thinking about their own history. InCall for Change, Fixico suggests how the discipline of history can improve by reconsidering its approach to Native peoples.
He offers the \"Medicine Way\" as a paradigm to see both history and the current world through a Native lens. This new approach paves the way for historians to better understand Native peoples and their communities through the eyes and experiences of Indians, thus reflecting an insightful indigenous historical ethos and reality.
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The World and All the Things upon It
What if we saw indigenous people as the active agents of global exploration rather than as the passive objects of that exploration? What if, instead of conceiving of global exploration as an enterprise just of European men such as Columbus or Cook or Magellan, we thought of it as an enterprise of the people they \"discovered\"? What could such a new perspective reveal about geographical understanding and its place in struggles over power in the context of colonialism?
The World and All the Things upon Itaddresses these questions by tracing how Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian people) explored the outside world and generated their own understandings of it in the century after James Cook's arrival in 1778. Writing with verve, David A. Chang draws on the compelling words of long-ignored Hawaiian-language sources-stories, songs, chants, and political prose-to demonstrate how Native Hawaiian people worked to influence their metaphorical \"place in the world.\" We meet, for example, Ka?iana, a Hawaiian chief who took an English captain as his lover and, while sailing throughout the Pacific, considered how Chinese, Filipinos, Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans might shape relations with Westerners to their own advantage. Chang's book is unique in examining travel, sexuality, spirituality, print culture, gender, labor, education, and race to shed light on how constructions of global geography became a site through which Hawaiians, as well as their would-be colonizers, perceived and contested imperialism, colonialism, and nationalism.
Rarely have historians asked how non-Western people imagined and even forged their own geographies of their colonizers and the broader world. This book takes up that task. It emphasizes, moreover, that there is no better way to understand the process and meaning of global exploration than by looking out from the shores of a place, such as Hawai?i, that was allegedly the object, and not the agent, of exploration.
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