Title: Irish and Scottish encounters with indigenous peoples : Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia /
Authors: Wilson, David A., 1950-; Morton, Graeme.; Wilson, David A., 1950-,; Morton, Graeme,; Wilson, David A., 1950-; Morton, Graeme,
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Indigenous peoples Colonization.; Irish Colonization.; Scots Colonization.; Ethnic relations; Irish Foreign countries History.; Scots Foreign countries History.
Abstract: The expansion of the British Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries created the greatest mass migration in human history, in which the Irish and Scots played a central, complex, and controversial role. The essays in this volume explore the diverse encounters Irish and Scottish migrants had with Indigenous peoples in North America and Australasia. The Irish and Scots were among the most active and enthusiastic participants in what one contributor describes as 'the greatest single period of land theft, cultural pillage, and casual genocide in world history'.
Contents: The great European migration and indigenous populations / Donald Harman Akenson -- James Mooney (1861 -- 1921) : the "Indian man" and the "Irish Catholic" / Pádraig Ó Siadhail -- Jeremiah and Alma Curtin's Indian journeys / John Eastlake -- Transnational dimensions of Irish anti-imperialism, 1842-54 / Cian T. McMahon -- Shamrock Aborigines : the Irish, the Aboriginal Australians, and their children / Ann McGrath -- "It is curious how keenly allied in character are the Scotch Highlander and the Maori" : encounters in a New Zealand colonial settlement / Brad Patterson -- A thorough Indian : Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Thomas Moore, Adam Kidd, and Irish identifications with Aboriginal culture in Canadian literature / Michele Holmgren -- Michael Power, the Catholic Church, and the evangelization of the First Nations Peoples of Western Upper Canada, 1841-48 / Mark G. McGowan -- Observations of a Scottish moralist : Indigenous peoples and the nationalities of Canada / Andrew Hinson and Graeme Morton -- "Going to the land of the yellow men" : the representation of Indigenous Americans in Scottish Gaelic literature / Michael Newton -- Transatlantic rhythms : to the far Nor'Wast and back again / Patricia A. McCormack -- Fur traders' garden : horticultural imperialism in Rupert's Land, 1670-1770 / Beverly Soloway -- Arctic encounters : twentieth-century Scots in the Hudson's Bay Company / Marjory Harper -- Aboriginal fiddling : the Scottish connection / Anne Lederman -- "Teller of tales" : John Buchan, first Baron Tweedsmuir, and Canada's Aboriginal peoples / Kevin Hutchings.