Native Providence: Memory, Community, and Survivance in the Northeast - Couverture souple

Rubertone, Patricia E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1496236866 ISBN 13 : 9781496236869

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2023

Synopsis

2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

A city of modest size, Providence, Rhode Island, had the third-largest Native American population in the United States by the first decade of the twentieth century. Native Providence tells the stories of the city's Native residents at this historical moment and in the decades before and after, a time when European Americans claimed that Northeast Natives had mostly vanished.

Denied their rightful place in modernity, men, women, and children from Narragansett, Nipmuc, Pequot, Wampanoag, and other ancestral communities traveled diverse and complicated routes to make their homes in this city. They found each other, carved out livelihoods, and created neighborhoods that became their urban homelands--new places of meaningful attachments. Accounts of individual lives and family histories emerge from historical and anthropological research in archives, government offices, historical societies, libraries, and museums and from community memories, geography, and landscape.

Patricia E. Rubertone chronicles the survivance of the Native people who stayed, left, and returned, or lived in Providence briefly, who faced involuntary displacement by urban renewal, and who made their presence known in this city and in the wider Indigenous and settler-colonial worlds. Their everyday experiences reenvision Providence's past and illuminate documentary and spatial tactics of inequality that erased Native people from most nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Patricia E. Rubertone is a professor of anthropology at Brown University. She is the author of Archaeologies of Placemaking: Monuments, Memories, and Engagement in Native North America and Grave Undertakings: An Archaeology of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1496236866
• ISBN 13: 9781496236869
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 464
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