In 19th century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the
Scottish highland chief are portrayed in similar wayscolorful and
wild, righteous and warlike, the last of their breeds. In 17th and
18th century accounts, they are both presented as barbarians, in
need of English language, religion, and civilization. During the
Seven Years War, the Cherokees and Highland troops were said to be
cousins. By the 19th century, one could hear Cree, Mohawk,
Cherokee, and Salish spoken with Gaelic accents. Colin Calloway, in
this imaginative work of imperial history, looks at why these two
peoples have so much in common. A comparative approach to the
American Indians and Scottish Highlanders, this book examines the
experiences of clans and tribal societies, which underwent parallel
experiences on the peripheries of Britains empire (in Britain, the
United States, and Canada) and what happened when they encountered
one another on the frontier. Pushed out of their ancestral lands,
their traditional food sourcescattle in the Highlands and bison on
the Great Plainswere decimated to make way for livestock farming.
Chapters of this book explore the storied landscapes, communal
land-holding practices, and deep spiritual connections to place
they shared; families and clans; Christian missionary activities
among both Highlanders and Indians; and the forced removals of both
peoples from their ancestral lands. Eventually, the conquering
cultures would romanticize the indigenous peoples whose tribal ways
of life they destroyed, in art and literature by such authors as
Sir Walter Scott and James Fenimore Cooper. In North America, the
groups often came together through the fur and deerskin industries
and intermarried, and this book examines their relationships in the
context of relations with colonial powers. Today, both groups
continue to celebrate the survival of their heritages in pow-wows
and Highland festivals, and growing numbers of Indians apply for
membership in Scottish clan societies. A scholar of American
Indians, who is of Scottish Highlander heritage, Calloway is known
for his work on the relationships between Indians and colonists in
North America. In this book, he complicates the notion of British
power by differentiating between the English and Scottish
Highlanders, who the English co-opted into serving in their
military forces in North America. What one gains is a more
finely-tuned understanding of how indigenous peoples with their own
rich identities experienced cultural change, economic
transformation, and demographic dislocation amidst the growing
power of the British empire.
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