Monuments and Sexual Politics in New England Indian Country

Rubertone, Patricia E.

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“…Many of these installations from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries persist in public spaces today, perpetuating colonial framings of the land and continuing the erasure of Native peoples and their own place-relations. Some monuments have been actively challenged or engaged by Native people themselves (see DeLucia 2018 ; O’Brien 2010 ; Rubertone 2008b , 2012 ), while others have been moved or gone missing (such as the “Canonicus” memorial boulder formerly situated in Providence, Rhode Island’s North Burial Ground; see Rubertone 2020 ).…”

Section: Trajectories Of Collective Remembrance Of Early Colonial Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

Spectacles of Settler Colonial Memory: Archaeological Findings from an Early Twentieth-Century “First” Settlement Pageant and Other Commemorative Terrain in New England

Howey

DeLucia

2022

Int J Histor Archaeol

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In 1923, rural New England mill town Dover, New Hampshire, staged a Tercentenary pageant of extraordinary proportions to celebrate its “first” settlement. This public spectacle memorialized a specific, and deeply exclusionary, narrative of English settler colonialism, shaped by social anxieties of the post-First World War United States. Recent archaeological research has found possible remnants from this spectacle on a seventeenth-century site. In disturbing this site, the Tercentenary pageant appears to have disregarded actual significant material traces from the very era it aimed to memorialize--traces that offer distinct, fuller understandings of deeply nuanced Native-settler interactions in the Piscataqua River region. Dover’s pageant is situated in a regional analysis of Native and Euro-colonial commemorative place-making of the early twentieth century, exploring how different communities pursued multivocal, monovocal, or other approaches in their performative engagements with the seventeenth century.

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Section: Trajectories Of Collective Remembrance Of Early Colonial Historymentioning

confidence: 99%