1st Edition

Native American Roots Relationality and Indigenous Regeneration Under Empire, 1770–1859

By Christian Michael Gonzales Copyright 2021
166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

Native American Roots: Relationality and Indigenous Regeneration Under Empire, 1770 – 1859 explores the development of modern Indigenous identities within the settler colonial context of the early United States. With an aggressively expanding United States that sought to displace Native peoples, the very foundations of Indigeneity were endangered by the disruption of Native connections... Read more

1. Family Ties: Ritual Kinship and Christianity in the Making of Indigenous Conceptions of Race  2. Servants of God, Masters of Men: Slavery and the Making of a Native–White Alliance, 1816–1859  3. Educating and Reproducing "The People": Mission Schools in the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Seneca Nations, 1815–1859  4. The Campaigns Against Removal, 1829–1842  5. Christian Bonds: Choctaw Male Authority and the Politics of Choctaw–United States Relations, 1831–1859

Biography

Christian Michael Gonzales is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Rhode Island, USA. His research interests lie in Native American cultural and intellectual histories, settler colonialism, race relations, and early American slave systems. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and two sons.