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Native American Freemasonry - Associationalism and Performance in America (Hardcover, New)
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Native American Freemasonry - Associationalism and Performance in America (Hardcover, New)
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Freemasonry has played a significant role in the history of Native
Americans since the colonial era--a role whose extent and meaning
are fully explored for the first time in this book. The work's
overarching concern is with how Masonry met specific social and
personal needs, a theme developed across three significant periods
of membership: the revolutionary era, the last third of the
nineteenth century, and the years following the First World War.
Joy Porter places Freemasonry into historical context, revealing
its social and political impact as a transatlantic phenomenon at
the heart of the colonizing process. She then explores its meaning
for many of the key Native leaders over time, for the ethnic groups
who sought to make connections with it, and for the bulk of its
American membership--the white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant middle
class.
Porter contends that Freemasonry offered special access to Native
Americans through its performance of ritual, an assertion borne out
by a wealth of contemporary manuscripts, newspapers, pamphlets,
Masonic sermons, orations, and lodge records and writings by
Masonic historians and antiquarians gleaned from archives in New
York, Philadelphia, Oklahoma, California, and London. Through these
documents, she demonstrates that over time, Freemasonry became a
significant avenue for the exchange, and perhaps even cocreation,
of cultural forms by Indians and non-Indians.
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