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Laddar... Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750–1860av Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
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A case study of one of America's many multi-ethnic border communities, Great Lakes Creoles builds upon recent research on gender, race, ethnicity, and politics as it examines the ways that the old fur trade families experienced and responded to the colonialism of United States expansion. Lucy Eldersveld Murphy examines Indian history with attention to the pluralistic nature of American communities and the ways that power, gender, race, and ethnicity were contested and negotiated in them. She explores the role of women as mediators shaping key social, economic, and political systems, as well as the creation of civil political institutions and the ways that men of many backgrounds participated in and influenced them. Ultimately, Great Lakes Creoles takes a careful look at Native people and their complex families as active members of an American community in the Great Lakes region. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Major strengths of this work include the emphasis on demographic changes through censuses, and the changes to social, cultural and political realities over the century. Furthermore, through comparisons with the Mexicans in the American Southwest and the Western Métis in the Canadian Northwest, including the similarities and differences between their experiences, Murphy presents an interregional analysis of colonized peoples in North America.
A weakness in her work, however, is her choice of terminology. Murphy chooses to use the term "Creole" to refer to the inhabitants of this community. She explains that she wants to avoid using the term "Métis", a term that the people of the time did not use to describe themselves. While this explanation seems to make sense, the common term in use across upper New France was "Canadien", which Murphy appears to avoid using due to political associations of the term with the modern Canadian State. Her choice to describe the population as "Creole", a term they did not use to describe themselves, in lieu of Canadien, makes it difficult to accept her reasoning for avoiding the term "Métis".
Vocabulary choices notwithstanding, this is a fantastic work, and highly recommended for any reader interested in the social and cultural history of North America from a postcolonial and interregional lens. ( )