Dispossession by degrees
Subtitle: Indian land and identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790
By: Jean M. O'Brien.
Series: Cambridge studies in North American Indian history
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Land tenure -- Massachusetts -- Natick; Indians of North America -- Kinship -- Massachusetts -- Natick; Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation -- Massachusetts -- Natick; Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Description: According to Jean O'Brien, Indians did not simply disappear from colonial Natick, Massachusetts, as the English extended their domination. Rather, the Indians creatively resisted colonialism, defended their lands, and rebuilt kin networks and community through the strategic use of English cultural practices and institutions.

In the late eighteenth century, Natick Indians experienced a process of 'dispossession by degrees' that rendered them invisible within the larger context of the colonial social order, and enabled the construction of the myth of Indian extinction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.