Tribe, Race, History examines American Indian communities in southern New England between the Revolution and Reconstruction, when Indians lived in the region's socioeconomic margins, moved between semiautonomous communities and towns, and intermarried extensively with blacks and whites. Drawing from a wealth of primary documentation, Daniel R. Mandell centers his study on ethnic boundaries, particularly how those boundaries were constructed, perceived, and crossed. He analyzes connections and distinctions between Indians and their non-Indian neighbors with regard to labor, landholding, government, and religion; examines how emerging romantic depictions of Indians (living and dead) helped shape a unique New England identity; and looks closely at the causes and results of tribal termination in the region after the Civil War. Shedding new light on regional developments in class, race, and culture, this groundbreaking study is the first to consider all Native Americans throughout southern New England.
List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Land and Labor Tribal Reserves Small Communities Work off the Reservation Indian Reserves as Refuges 2. Community and Family Indian Networks in the Early Republic Marriages with ""Foreigners & Strangers"" Anglo-American Views of Indian Intermarriage Indian Views of Race and Intermarriage Intermarriage and Assimilation 3. Authority and Autonomy Guardians Reappointed Mashpee and Gideon Hawley The Standing Order, Class, and Indians Guardians and Tribal Challenges The Mashpee Revolt 4. Reform and Renascence Maintaining Institutions Indians, the Society for Propagating the Gospel, and Reforms Indians, State Governments, and Economic Enterprise Renascence and Resistance 5. Reality and Imagery Indians at Midcentury Employment and Workways Tribal Identity and Politics Images of Indians Local Histories 6. Citizenship and Termination Race and Civil Rights Proposing Termination Rejecting Termination Compelling Termination Epilogue List of Abbreviations Notes Essay on Sources Index
""The work will become the starting point for any serious research on New England Native Americans in the nineteenth century. Well-grounded in current historiography, it will probe equally helpful in undergraduate and graduate courses by providing necessary counterpoint to the experiences of the Native Americans in other regions during the era while supplying a useful and readable commentary on American society and culture from a minority perspective.""
