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Laddar... Mixed Blood Indians: Racial Construction in the Early Southav Theda Perdue
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On the southern frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European men--including traders, soldiers, and government agents--sometimes married Native women. Children of these unions were known by whites as "half-breeds." The Indian societies into which they were born, however, had no corresponding concepts of race or "blood." Moreover, counter to European customs and laws, Native lineage was traced through the mother only. No familial status or rights stemmed from the father. "Mixed Blood" Indians looks at a fascinating array of such birth- and kin-related issues as they were alternately misunderstood and astutely exploited by both Native and European cultures. Theda Perdue discusses the assimilation of non-Indians into Native societies, their descendants' participation in tribal life, and the white cultural assumptions conveyed in the designation "mixed blood." In addition to unions between European men and Native women, Perdue also considers the special cases arising from the presence of white women and African men and women in Indian society. From the colonial through the early national era, "mixed bloods" were often in the middle of struggles between white expansionism and Native cultural survival. That these "half-breeds" often resisted appeals to their "civilized" blood helped foster an enduring image of Natives as fickle allies of white politicians, missionaries, and entrepreneurs. "Mixed Blood" Indians rereads a number of early writings to show us the Native outlook on these misperceptions and to make clear that race is too simple a measure of their--or any peoples'--motives. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Theda Perdue is a highly respected historian of Native American peoples, especially those who were living and farming in the southeast where European contact spread before and after the Revolution. She has published significant research about the “Five Civilized Tribes;” Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek and Seminole people who were removed from their homelands in the 1830s. Under pressure from European American settlers who wanted their land, they were forced along the infamous “Trail of Tears” and granted lands further west “as long as the grass grew and rivers run.” Today those lands are the state of Oklahoma which is no longer owned by Native Americans.
With abundant evidence from primary sources, Perdue argues convincingly that “mixed blood” and “full blood” are outdated terms that define behavior as dependent on ethnic ancestry. Such terms are rooted in white supremacy, and yet they are still used to define tribal membership.
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