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Kinship in Narrating Native American History, 1491-Present book cover

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Kinship in Narrating Native American History, 1491-Present

By Bryan C. Rindfleisch Copyright 2027
224 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book synthesizes traditional and modern historiography to narrate the practices of Native American family and kinship from 1491 to the present, highlighting how they evolved in response to Euro-American colonialism.   For centuries, matrilineal kinship descent not only structured Indigenous worlds but was embedded throughout Native politics, trade, religious beliefs, social structures,... Read more

Introduction,  1:  Creation & Kinship, c. 1491,  2:  New Worlds of Kinship, 1492-1763,  3:  Kinship & Revolution, 1763-1815,  4:  Kinship, Dispossession, & Assimilation, 1828-1924: Part I,  5:  Kinship, Dispossession, & Assimilation, 1828-1924: Part II,  6:  Kinship, Identity, & Sovereignty, 1924-1980,  7:  Kinship & Indian Country Today,  Bibliography

Biography

Bryan C. Rindfleisch is an Associate Professor of History at Marquette University, USA. His previous books include George Galphin’s Intimate Empire: The Creek Indians, Family, and Colonialism in Early America (2019), Brothers of Coweta: Kinship, Empire, and Revolution in the Eighteenth-Century Muscogee World (2021), and Negotiating Assimilation & Missionization in Indian Territory (2024).

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