Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xiii, 341 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Subject

1. Brotherton Indians -- Land tenure
2. Brotherton Indians -- Social conditions
3. Brotherton Indians -- Government relations
4. Brotherton Indians -- Ethnic identity
5. Nationalism -- United States -- History
6. Community life -- United States -- History
7. Brothertown Indian Reservation (Wis.) -- History

Contents

1. "Crowding in upon their said lands" : the consequences of land encroachment upon Native communities in southern New England, 1675-1775 -- "Endeavouring to use it for the good of my fellow Indians" : Wheelock's Indians and the gospel of community revitalization, 1742-72 -- "Endeavour to do all things as becometh brothers" : kinship and community in the formation of Brothertown, 1771-95 -- "Your people" and "our people" : maintaining boundaries and preserving Brothertown, 1785-1812 -- "No great friend of Indians" : politicians, speculators, entrepreneurs, and the failed Brothertown migration to the White River, 1809-25 -- "A tedious, perplexing and harassing dispute" : contesting and defining land ownership in the Michigan territory, 1820-32 -- "A new state of things" : citizenship and land ownership as means to sovereignty, 1832-40.

Call number

1. JGD 10-178

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Jarvis, Brad D. E.

Title

1. The Brothertown Nation of Indians : land ownership and nationalism in early America, 1740-1840 / Brad D.E. Jarvis.

Imprint

1. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2010.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2009050078

ISBN

1. 9780803226333 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 0803226330 (cloth : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JGD 10-178