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ethnic studies
festival
fishing rights
fur traders
history
identity
indian identity
indigenous culture
indigenous peoples
kinship
labor
land rights
law
marriage
multiculturalism
native america
native american identity
native american studies
native communities
native indigenous studies
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puget sound
settler colonialism
settling the west
washington
washington state
white settlers
Product details
- ISBN 9780520226852
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2000
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the Puget Sound region of Washington state, indigenous people and their descendants have a long history of interaction with settlers and their descendants. "Indians in the Making" offers the first comprehensive account of these interactions, from contact with traders of the 1820s to the Indian fishing rights activism of the 1970s. In this thoroughly researched history, Alexandra Harmon also provides a theoretically sophisticated analysis that charts shifting notions of Indian identity, both in native and in nonnative communities. During the period under consideration, each major shift in demographic, economic, and political conditions precipitated new deliberations about how to distinguish Indians from non-Indians and from each other. By chronicling such dialogues over 150 years, this groundbreaking study reveals that Indian identity has a complex history. Examining relations in various spheres of life - labor, public ceremony, marriage and kinship, politics and law - Harmon shows how Indians have continually redefined themselves.
Her focus on the negotiations that have given rise to modern Indian identity makes a significant contribution to the discourse of contemporary multiculturalism and ethnic studies.
Alexandra Harmon is Assistant Professor in the American Indian Studies Center at the University of Washington.
