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A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the "First Indian War" (later named King Philip's War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a female Wampanoag leader, and James Printer, a Nipmuc scholar, whose stories converge in the captivity of Mary Rowlandson. Through both a narrow focus on Weetamoo, Printer, and their network of relations, and a far broader scope that includes vast Indigenous geographies, Brooks leads us to a new understanding of the history of colonial New England and of American origins. Brooks's pathbreaking scholarship is grounded not just in extensive archival research but also in the land and communities of Native New England, reading the actions of actors during the seventeenth century alongside an analysis of the landscape and interpretations informed by tribal history.… (más)
This brilliant reinterpretation and reconstruction of the conflict known as King Philip's War is a book to be read slowly and carefully. It's a tremendous achievement, and one I look forward to returning to often. ( )
In this dense and ambitious account of the 17th-century conflicts known as King Philip’s War, Brooks (The Common Pot), associate professor of English and American studies at Amherst College, recovers histories of Native American adaptation and resistance to settler colonialism.... With so much material to analyze, Brooks sometimes struggles to untangle narrative threads, and her use of historical fiction to represent indigenous voices tends to confuse rather than enrich her scenes. Nonetheless, Brooks’s project provides a wealth of information for both scholars and lay readers interested in Native American history.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
The first step in liquidating a people . . . is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.
—Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1978)
pili kisos, “the new moon”
pildowi ôjmowôgan, “a new history”
—Joseph Laurent, New Familiar Abenaki and English Dialogues (1884)
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
As the first leaves of sassafras and strawberry emerged in Wampanoag country during the spring of 1623, a leader stepped forth to confront Plymouth colonist Edward Winslow and the Wampanoag diplomat Hoppomock as they entered the Pocasset town of Mattapoisett on the banks of Kteticut (or Taunton) River. -Introduction: The Absence of Presence
It was spring, the salmon streaming upriver, when English explorer and colonial agent Christopher Levett arrived at Caskoak, the "place of herons," in Wabanaki, the land of the dawn. Wabanaki leaders greeted him, hosted his visit, and diplomatically opened the way through the extensive coastal region. -Prologue: Caskoak,The Place of Peace
A unique "Indian deed" is the earliest surviving awikhigan, or written instrument, to which Weetamo of Pocasset set her mark, -Chapter 1: Namumpum, "Our Beloved Kinswoman," Nonaquaket, July 1651
A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the "First Indian War" (later named King Philip's War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a female Wampanoag leader, and James Printer, a Nipmuc scholar, whose stories converge in the captivity of Mary Rowlandson. Through both a narrow focus on Weetamoo, Printer, and their network of relations, and a far broader scope that includes vast Indigenous geographies, Brooks leads us to a new understanding of the history of colonial New England and of American origins. Brooks's pathbreaking scholarship is grounded not just in extensive archival research but also in the land and communities of Native New England, reading the actions of actors during the seventeenth century alongside an analysis of the landscape and interpretations informed by tribal history.
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