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Author O'Brien, Jean M.

Title Firsting and lasting : writing Indians out of existence in New England / Jean M. O'Brien.

Imprint Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  974.03 OBR    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  974.03 OBR    Check Shelf
Description xxvi, 269 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Series Indigenous Americas
Indigenous Americas.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-259) and index.
Contents Introduction : Indians can never be modern -- Firsting : local texts claim Indian places as their own -- Replacing : historical practices argue that non-Indians have supplanted Indians -- Lasting : texts purify the landscape of Indians by denying them a place in modernity -- Resisting : claims in texts about Indian extinction fail even as they are being made -- Conclusion : The continuing struggle over recognition.
Summary "Driven by a creative reading of hundreds of local histories, Jean M. O'Brien's Firsting and Lasting reinvigorates the old question of the 'vanishing Indian' in surprising ways, taking readers into the contradictions surrounding race and modernity, and offering an ur-history of the politics of tribal termination, dual citizenship, and cultural politics. It is a tour de force from one of our very best ethnohistorians."--Jacket.
Subject New England. (OCoLC)fst01241913
Indians of North America. (OCoLC)fst00969633
Indians of North America -- New England -- Historiography.
Historiography. (OCoLC)fst00958221
New England -- Race relations.
Indians of North America -- New England -- History -- 19th century.
New England -- History -- 19th century.
Indianer -- historia -- Nordamerika -- New England -- 1800-talet.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- New England -- History -- 19th century.
Subject Indians of North America -- Historiography. (OCoLC)fst00969772
New England -- Historiography.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- New England -- Historiography.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
ISBN 9780816665778 (acid-free paper)
081666577X (acid-free paper)
9780816665785 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
0816665788 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
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