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Native Providence : memory, community, and survivance in the Northeast / Patricia E. Rubertone.

Summary:

"Native Providence reveals stories of Native urban life in the Northeast United States shaped by the dynamics of colonialism, race, and class, and not in the least by the survivance of people who today still live among the ruins of modernity"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781496217554
ISBN: 1496217551
Physical Description: xxiv, 434 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Narrating Indigeneity in a "Thoroughfare Town" -- Fox Point: A Waterfront Homeland, Encounters at a Stopping-Over Place, and Indigenous Legibility -- Lippitt Hill: Homelands of the Hill and Hollows, Unholy Water, and Traditional Knowledge -- Upper South Providence: Homeland at the Crossroads, Churchgoing and Community Making -- Lower South Providence: Habitations by the River and Bay, Mobility, and the Urban Imaginary -- Mashapaug Pond: The Pond Lands, From Planting Fields to Industrial Transformations -- Federal Hill: Homeland above the River at the Town's Doorstep, Commonplace Streets, and Uncommon Labor -- Johnston: Homeland at the Borderlands, Powwows, and Urban Mythscapes -- Imagining Past, Present and Future Urbanity.