Colonialism may have significantly changed the history of North
America, but its impact on Native Americans has been greatly
misunderstood. In this book, Neal Ferris offers alternative
explanations of colonial encounters that emphasize continuity as
well as change affecting Native behaviors. He examines how
communities from three aboriginal nations in what is now
southwestern Ontario negotiated the changes that accompanied the
arrival of Europeans and maintained a cultural continuity with
their pasts that has been too often overlooked in conventional
"master narrative" histories of contact.
In reconsidering Native adaptation and resistance to colonial
British rule, Ferris reviews five centuries of interaction that are
usually read as a single event viewed through the lens of
historical bias. He first examines patterns of traditional lifeway
continuity among the Ojibwa, demonstrating their ability to
maintain seasonal mobility up to the mid-nineteenth century and
their adaptive response to its loss. He then looks at the
experience of refugee Delawares, who settled among the Ojibwa as a
missionary-sponsored community yet managed to maintain an identity
distinct from missionary influences. And he shows how the
archaeological history of the Six Nations Iroquois reflected
patterns of negotiating emergent colonialism when they returned to
the region in the 1780s, exploring how families managed tradition
and the contemporary colonial world to develop innovative ways of
revising and maintaining identity.
"The Archaeology of Native-Lived Colonialism" convincingly utilizes
historical archaeology to link the Native experience of the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the deeper history of
sixteenth- and seventeenth-century interactions and with
pre-European times. It shows how these Native communities succeeded
in retaining cohesiveness through centuries of foreign influence
and material innovations by maintaining ancient, adaptive social
processes that both incorporated European ideas and reinforced
historically understood notions of self and community.
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