The Right to a Name: The Narragansett People and Rhode Island Officials in the Revolutionary Era

Herndon, Ruth Wallis; Sekatau, Ella Wilcox

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“…This is not to say that the Americas before 1492 were occupied by cold societies who were given history by literate Europeans, nor to deny that European policies, practices and ideologies were powerful and transforming forces. And despite the rhetoric of the vanishing Indian and the political pressures placed on native peoples to assimilate and give up their former ways of life, native groups in southeastern New England persist as viable cultural and legal entities (Hauptman and Wherry, 1990;Herndon and Sekatau, 1997;Robinson, 1990).…”

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Native American gender politics and material culture in seventeenth-century southeastern New England

Nassaney

2004

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Scholars have long recognized that European contact had a profound impact on native peoples throughout the Americas. However, subaltern men and women are no longer seen as passive victims in their interactions with the dominant culture but rather as active agents who made their own histories, even as they confronted colonialism on a daily basis. In southeastern New England, population decline and increased commodity exchange created new social opportunities for native men and women by the mid-seventeenth century. These demographic, economic and social conditions contributed to ongoing transformations in gender roles and responsibilities, though they were not experienced uniformly throughout the region. Building on limited and ambiguous documentary and oral accounts, I use archaeological evidence of pipes, pestles, pots, and peage (wampum) to examine gender politics in native New England after European contact.

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Native American gender politics and material culture in seventeenth-century southeastern New England

Nassaney

2004

Journal of Social Archaeology

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“…One imaginative historian has blended the insights of ethnohistorians and scholars of the New England town to create the fi rst sustained analysis of a particular indigenous community, a place where the desire to preserve at least some elements of local culture provided stability for individuals who had to cope with the constant pressures brought on them by nearby colonists (Piker 2004). This study peeled back generations of cultural misunderstanding to get at the underlying persistence of a native population and its culture (Herndon and Sekatau 1997). In the past 15 years scholars of early American culture have also begun to take more seriously the nature of the sources used to explore and explicate early American culture.…”

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