...This chapter discusses the relations of the southern Indian tribes and the white settlers. Although their relations were generally peaceful in the first decade of the nineteenth century, it was entirely the opposite during the American Revolution. The discussion looks at the Five Civilized Tribes...

...This chapter discusses white settler adoption/adaptation of Maori cultural symbols as exemplified by Katherine Mansfield's heitiki as well as her collection of Maori names and vocabulary and inclusion thereof in her fiction in order to “place” setting. A heitiki is a Maori ornamental object—a piece...

... violence Jezebel fictional character nursing Old Jezebel fictional character Colbert Henry fictional character Merrill Flora Smell Perfume Flowers Floriography Odour White settlers Slavery Confederacy When McKann had been in Paris, Kitty Ayrshire was singing at the Comique, and he wouldn’t go...

... States. In surveys and reports, in the Northwest Ordinance and federal statutes, officials, speculators, and geographers made Native homelands legible as homelands for white Americans. They deployed the category of population, proposing the replacement of Native people with white settlers. All the same...

...S. Loza grapples with settler colonialism and the haunting of nostalgia in the movie franchise, Twilight, where she argues that the series deliberately replicates representations of the Southwest to appease the fragility of white settler colonial memory, at the same time reminding...

... Thompson P S republicanism decolonization Macmillan Harold Mitchell Douglas Buthelezi Chief Rhodesia Unilateral Declaration of Independence UDI white settlers colonial nationalism Smith regime settler society Britishness In 1970 New Zealand's All Blacks toured South Africa. No Natal rugby...

...This book takes two of the most influential minority groups of white settlers in the British Empire—the Irish and the Scots—and explores how they imagined themselves within the landscapes of its farthest reaches, the Australian colonies of Victoria and New South Wales. Using letters and diaries...

...As a descendant of white settlers, I wish to acknowledge the Indigenous peoples who long ago inhabited ancestral territories where I later resided most of my life: the Erie and Shawnee in northeastern Ohio, the Ioway and Sauk in central Iowa, and the Council of Three Fires the Mississauga Ojibwe...

... type of Native transgression? Did the white settlers run into the same difficulties as natives when seeking satisfaction? Compared to the struggles of the Native Americans, the concerns of the whites were minor. The chapter looks at this next phase in American history and the impact of the various...

... leaders led to an interpretive program focused on the primitive white settlers of the region in the nineteenth century. They did so, he argues, to the exclusion of Native American history, in effect creating an image of the Smokies as a “place in the tourist imagination.” Appalachian culture Cades Cove...

...That few UK migrants settled in tropical Africa cannot be explained only in terms of climate. Plentiful local labour in places like Nigeria allowed a European elite to operate as managers and officials in a dual labour economy. For similar reasons, white settlers remained few in temperate regions...

...This book invites readers to experience the early American revivals and reform movements through the eyes of the revivalists and the reformers themselves. Between 1790 and 1860, the mass migration of white settlers into New York State contributed to a historic Christian revival. This renewed...

... of Native queer and Two-Spirit people. Presenting a “biopolitics of settler colonialism”—in which the imagined disappearance of indigeneity and sustained subjugation of all racialized peoples ensures a progressive future for white settlers—this text demonstrates the interdependence of nation, race, gender...

...This chapter presents an essay on Mahatma Gandhi’s encounters with death during his fight for Indian rights in South Africa. It recalls when Gandhi arrived in Durban in January 1897, he was attacked by a mob of white settlers. Gandhi refused to file charges against the perpetrators of the attack...

...This chapter presents evidence that knowledge of both the dangers presented by soil erosion and the means to successfully address it exist deep in the memory and experience of agricultural societies and were understood by the white settlers who colonized North America. Yet, even as knowledge...

... legal, political, and diplomatic negotiation. But, as Samantha Seeley demonstrates, removal, like the right to remain, was a battle fought on multiple fronts. It encompassed tribal leaders’ fierce determination to expel white settlers from Native lands and free African Americans’ legal maneuvers both...