Colin G. Calloway
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195340129
- eISBN:
- 9780199867202
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195340129.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
Although Highland Scots forged patterns of coexistence with Indian people across large stretches of North America, they were, nonetheless, participants in a huge process of colonial encounter that ...
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Although Highland Scots forged patterns of coexistence with Indian people across large stretches of North America, they were, nonetheless, participants in a huge process of colonial encounter that deprived Indian people of their homelands in both the United States and Canada. This chapter surveys relations between Highland settlers and Indians in New York and Ontario, Nova Scotia, and Red River, Manitoba. Highland settlers not only contributed to the dispossession of Native people but also fundamentally changed the landscapes Native peoples had inhabited.Less
Although Highland Scots forged patterns of coexistence with Indian people across large stretches of North America, they were, nonetheless, participants in a huge process of colonial encounter that deprived Indian people of their homelands in both the United States and Canada. This chapter surveys relations between Highland settlers and Indians in New York and Ontario, Nova Scotia, and Red River, Manitoba. Highland settlers not only contributed to the dispossession of Native people but also fundamentally changed the landscapes Native peoples had inhabited.
Kate Flint
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780691203188
- eISBN:
- 9780691210254
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691203188.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This book takes a fascinating look at the iconic figure of the Native American in the British cultural imagination from the Revolutionary War to the early twentieth century, and examining how Native ...
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This book takes a fascinating look at the iconic figure of the Native American in the British cultural imagination from the Revolutionary War to the early twentieth century, and examining how Native Americans regarded the British, as well as how they challenged their own cultural image in Britain during this period. The book shows how the image of the Indian was used in English literature and culture for a host of ideological purposes, and reveals its crucial role as symbol, cultural myth, and stereotype that helped to define British identity and its attitude toward the colonial world. Through close readings of writers such as Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and D. H. Lawrence, the book traces how the figure of the Indian was received, represented, and transformed in British fiction and poetry, travelogues, sketches, and journalism, as well as theater, paintings, and cinema. It describes the experiences of the Ojibwa and Ioway who toured Britain with George Catlin in the 1840s; the testimonies of the Indians in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; and the performances and polemics of the Iroquois poet Pauline Johnson in London. The book explores transatlantic conceptions of race, the role of gender in writings by and about Indians, and the complex political and economic relationships between Britain and America. The book argues that native perspectives are essential to our understanding of transatlantic relations in this period and the development of transnational modernity.Less
This book takes a fascinating look at the iconic figure of the Native American in the British cultural imagination from the Revolutionary War to the early twentieth century, and examining how Native Americans regarded the British, as well as how they challenged their own cultural image in Britain during this period. The book shows how the image of the Indian was used in English literature and culture for a host of ideological purposes, and reveals its crucial role as symbol, cultural myth, and stereotype that helped to define British identity and its attitude toward the colonial world. Through close readings of writers such as Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and D. H. Lawrence, the book traces how the figure of the Indian was received, represented, and transformed in British fiction and poetry, travelogues, sketches, and journalism, as well as theater, paintings, and cinema. It describes the experiences of the Ojibwa and Ioway who toured Britain with George Catlin in the 1840s; the testimonies of the Indians in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; and the performances and polemics of the Iroquois poet Pauline Johnson in London. The book explores transatlantic conceptions of race, the role of gender in writings by and about Indians, and the complex political and economic relationships between Britain and America. The book argues that native perspectives are essential to our understanding of transatlantic relations in this period and the development of transnational modernity.
Daniel Ingram
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813037974
- eISBN:
- 9780813042169
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813037974.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
Coexistence was a strategy employed by many Indians, even when their new neighbors were despised enemies. This chapter examines Fort Michilimackinac, the important trade depot that guarded the ...
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Coexistence was a strategy employed by many Indians, even when their new neighbors were despised enemies. This chapter examines Fort Michilimackinac, the important trade depot that guarded the Mackinac strait between Lakes Michigan and Huron. Odawas and Ojibwas grated at the news that their French trading partners had ceded this important point to the hated British at the close of the Seven Years' War. After first attacking and overcoming the fort at the straits, local natives accepted the reality of British occupation and used their mastery of foodways to ensure their importance to the new British regime and reinvigorate trade. One British trade good, alcohol, was a troubling but highly desired commodity. While this relationship lasted, through war and peace, food and drink defined a system of social interdependence that challenges deterministic economic models of Indian decline.Less
Coexistence was a strategy employed by many Indians, even when their new neighbors were despised enemies. This chapter examines Fort Michilimackinac, the important trade depot that guarded the Mackinac strait between Lakes Michigan and Huron. Odawas and Ojibwas grated at the news that their French trading partners had ceded this important point to the hated British at the close of the Seven Years' War. After first attacking and overcoming the fort at the straits, local natives accepted the reality of British occupation and used their mastery of foodways to ensure their importance to the new British regime and reinvigorate trade. One British trade good, alcohol, was a troubling but highly desired commodity. While this relationship lasted, through war and peace, food and drink defined a system of social interdependence that challenges deterministic economic models of Indian decline.
Byron Dueck
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199747641
- eISBN:
- 9780199379859
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199747641.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music, History, American
Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries considers several genres of music and dance currently performed in First Nations and Métis communities in the western Canadian province of ...
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Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries considers several genres of music and dance currently performed in First Nations and Métis communities in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, including fiddling, step dancing, country music, and gospel song. It also explores some of the contexts in which these genres are performed, including concerts, coffeehouses, dance competitions, and funerary wakes. Such gatherings open up spaces for the expression of distinctive modes of northern Algonquian sociability; they also play a role in the perpetuation of a distinctive indigenous public culture. They are in this sense interstitial sites: at once places of intimate engagement and spaces oriented to an imagined public of strangers. This volume looks at how Manitoban aboriginal musicians engage with musical intimates and mass-mediated audiences; how they negotiate the possibilities mass mediation affords—in some cases making enthusiastic use of broadcasts and recordings, and in others insistently prioritizing social intimacy; and how, in doing so, they extend and elaborate indigenous sociability.Less
Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries considers several genres of music and dance currently performed in First Nations and Métis communities in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, including fiddling, step dancing, country music, and gospel song. It also explores some of the contexts in which these genres are performed, including concerts, coffeehouses, dance competitions, and funerary wakes. Such gatherings open up spaces for the expression of distinctive modes of northern Algonquian sociability; they also play a role in the perpetuation of a distinctive indigenous public culture. They are in this sense interstitial sites: at once places of intimate engagement and spaces oriented to an imagined public of strangers. This volume looks at how Manitoban aboriginal musicians engage with musical intimates and mass-mediated audiences; how they negotiate the possibilities mass mediation affords—in some cases making enthusiastic use of broadcasts and recordings, and in others insistently prioritizing social intimacy; and how, in doing so, they extend and elaborate indigenous sociability.
Kate Flint
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780691203188
- eISBN:
- 9780691210254
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691203188.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter examines the impact made by the Ojibwa and Iowa Indians who toured with George Catlin in the 1840s—and the impression that their travels in Britain made upon them. Both groups performed ...
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This chapter examines the impact made by the Ojibwa and Iowa Indians who toured with George Catlin in the 1840s—and the impression that their travels in Britain made upon them. Both groups performed dances and uttered “the dreadful war-whoop,” and both groups were, effectively, live exhibits, introduced and explained in lectures and in the question-and-answer sessions Catlin held. How did these Indians interpret England? The evidence is somewhat limited, since it must come largely from Catlin's words, in the book he published about his years in England and Europe. In conveying Indian voices, Catlin invariably makes them sound as though they think and express themselves in a simpler, more “innocent” way than the—by implication—more sophisticated product of Western civilization. A native perspective on 1840s Britain is provided by the Ojibwa Maungwudaus. Throughout his account, individual experience gains its importance not through subjective response but as something that may be shared through terms designed to reach a specific readership or audience, with its own familiar frames of reference. Native peoples are not the Other against which modernity is being postulated; rather, the modern world is being presented for them.Less
This chapter examines the impact made by the Ojibwa and Iowa Indians who toured with George Catlin in the 1840s—and the impression that their travels in Britain made upon them. Both groups performed dances and uttered “the dreadful war-whoop,” and both groups were, effectively, live exhibits, introduced and explained in lectures and in the question-and-answer sessions Catlin held. How did these Indians interpret England? The evidence is somewhat limited, since it must come largely from Catlin's words, in the book he published about his years in England and Europe. In conveying Indian voices, Catlin invariably makes them sound as though they think and express themselves in a simpler, more “innocent” way than the—by implication—more sophisticated product of Western civilization. A native perspective on 1840s Britain is provided by the Ojibwa Maungwudaus. Throughout his account, individual experience gains its importance not through subjective response but as something that may be shared through terms designed to reach a specific readership or audience, with its own familiar frames of reference. Native peoples are not the Other against which modernity is being postulated; rather, the modern world is being presented for them.
