The Brothertown Nation of Indians
Subtitle: land ownership and nationalism in early America, 1740-1840
By: Brad D.E. Jarvis.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780803226333
Subjects: Brotherton Indians -- Land tenure; Brotherton Indians -- Social conditions; Brotherton Indians -- Government relations; Brotherton Indians -- Ethnic identity; Nationalism -- United States -- History; Community life -- United States -- History; Brothertown Indian Reservation (Wis.) -- History
Description: xiii, 341 p. : 23 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Crowding in upon their said lands" : the consequences of land encroachment upon Native communities in southern New England, 1675-1775; title: "Endeavouring to use it for the good of my fellow Indians" : Wheelock's Indians and the gospel of community revitalization, 1742; title: "Endeavour to do all things as becometh brothers" : kinship and community in the formation of Brothertown, 1771; title: "Your people" and "our people" : maintaining boundaries and preserving Brothertown, 1785; title: "No great friend of Indians" : politicians, speculators, entrepreneurs, and the failed Brothertown migration to the White River, 1809; title: "A tedious, perplexing, and harassing dispute" : contesting and defining land ownership in the Michigan territory, 1820; title: "A new state of things" : citizenship and land ownership as means to sovereignty, 1832.