Category: History: N America: Native Peoples

Copyright/published Year: 2022 by W. W. Norton

ISBN: 0393634094

Binding: Hardcover

Description: Often overlooked, there is mixed blood at the heart of America. ì And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex ì households using intermarriage to link disparate communities and ì create protective circles of kin. Beginning in the seventeenth ì century, Native peoples?Ojibwes, Otoes, Cheyennes, Chinooks, and ì others?formed new families with young French, English, Canadian, ì and American fur traders who spent months in smoky winter lodges ì or at boisterous summer rendezvous. These families built ì cosmopolitan trade centers from Michilimackinac on the Great ì Lakes to Bellevue on the Missouri River, Bent's Fort in the ì southern Plains, and Fort Vancouver in the Pacific Northwest. ì Their family names are often imprinted on the landscape, but ì their voices have long been muted in our histories. Anne F. ì Hyde's pathbreaking history restores them in full.

Vividly combining the panoramic and the particular, Born of ì Lakes and Plains follows five mixed-descent families whose ì lives intertwined major events: imperial battles over the fur ì trade; the first extensions of American authority west of the ì Appalachians; the ravages of imported disease; the violence of ì Indian removal; encroaching American settlement; and, following ì the Civil War, the disasters of Indian war, reservations policy, ì and allotment. During the pivotal nineteenth century, ì mixed-descent people who had once occupied a middle ground became ì a racial problem drawing hostility from all sides. Their ì identities were challenged by the pseudo-science of blood ì quantum?the instrument of allotment policy?and their traditions ì by the Indian schools established to erase Native ways. As Anne ì F. Hyde shows, they navigated the hard choices they faced as they ì had for centuries: by relying on the rich resources of family and ì kin. Here is an indelible western history with a new human ì face.

16 pages of illustrations; 9 maps

Condition Information

This is a used book and is in Good condition.

Additional condition description

Has a (very) small black remainder dot on page tops. Otherwise clean and unmarked. Sound, square binding. Light shelf-wear to jacket.