Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650–1790

ISBN: 9781139243810 出版年：1997 页码：242 Jean M O'Brien Cambridge University Press

According to Jean O'Brien, Indians did not simply disappear from colonial Natick, Massachusetts as the English extended their domination. Rather, the Indians creatively resisted colonialism, defended their lands, and rebuilt kin networks and community through the strategic use of English cultural practices and institutions. In the late eighteenth century, Natick Indians experienced a process of 'dispossession by degrees' that rendered them invisible within the larger context of the colonial social order, and enabled the construction of the myth of Indian extinction.