...This chapter looks at the marital politics among Native Americans as an example of the importance of race and culture to understanding marriage ideology. In contemporary “Indian territory” (now the state of Oklahoma), Native American tribes have sovereignty to decide their own marriage customs...

... that transported enslaved Africans, served as the crew on those ships as they crisscrossed the Atlantic, and grew the food that sustained the enslaved. Prior to white Rhode Islanders’ commitment to Atlantic commerce, the enslaved population was relatively small, scattered, and predominantly Native American...

...The early French Wars (1689–1748) in North America saw provincial soldiers, or British white settlers, in Massachusetts and New Hampshire fight against New France and her Native American allies with minimal involvement from England. Most British officers and government officials viewed the colonial...

...This chapter applies a person-centered ethnographic approach to examine how African cultural change and racial mixture within Native American communities contributed to new definitions of being and belonging and the relationship these definitions share with historical and contemporary race-making...

... Assembly Rhode Island Providence Rhode Island South Kingstown Rhode Island Massachusetts Native Americans New York Slave trade industry Warwick Rhode Island Newport Rhode Island North Kingstown Rhode Island Peace Dale Rhode Island Port cities Slave labor Barbados Cranston Samuel Molasses...

... back as the sixteenth century. The 1960s also saw the creation of a new pan-Indian consciousness exemplified by the Chicago Conference of 1961, which brought together hundreds of Native Americans from different tribes to discuss issues of common interest. Meanwhile, for Asian Americans, the 1960s...

... to protect a rural and working-class way of life based around masculine industrial jobs drives mining supporters, and is used by industry and politicians to evoke nostalgia and legitimacy. Environmentalists and Native American tribes are critical of the proposed mines that create pollution risks. Yet...

...This chapter explores the bicultural upbringing of mixed-race children produced via intermarriages between Creek Indians and southern colonists. On a daily basis, white and Native American parents struggled to find compromises and common ground in the socialization of their children, resulting...

...This chapter explores how French and Native American women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries challenged European gender norms. Women from New France families that engaged extensively in trade with Native American nations mimicked the expanded economic and political power of Iroquoian...

...A central goal of filmmaking is to produce content to share with audiences. However important “film as a product” may be, the process of creating a film holds great potential for individual and community empowerment and expression, particularly within Native American communities. This chapter...

...This chapter presents U.S. Congressional Representative Wilson Lumpkin’s speech on the relocation of Native American tribes from the southeastern United States to federally controlled lands west of the Mississippi River. He forges a clear connection between the story of the Israelites...

... a potentially powerful medium for multiethnic authors interested in redrawing global color lines. Through a range of archival materials from literary reviews to diplomatic records to ethnological treatises, the book identifies a common theme in the writings of African-, Asian- and Native-American authors who...