Title Indigenous kinship, colonial texts, and the contested space of early New England / Marie Balsley Taylor

Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2023] ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 199 pages) : illustrations, map Series Native Americans of the Northeast Native Americans of the Northeast. Contents Introduction: Indigenous kinship, colonial texts -- 1. Kinship, captivity, and diplomacy: Locating Wequash in the Indigenous conversion narrative -- 2. Questions, answers, and treaty-making: Cutshamekin's influence on John Eliot's political imagination -- 3. Corn, community, and Cassacinamon: Indigenous science in John Winthrop Jr.'s "Of Maiz" -- 4. Treaties, reciprocity, and providence: The role of Indigenous justice in Daniel Gookin's Doings and Sufferings -- Epilogue: Remembering and forgetting Summary "New England history often treats Indigenous people as minor or secondary actors within the larger colonial story. Focusing on those Native Americans who were sachems, or leaders, in local tribes when Europeans began arriving, Marie Balsley Taylor reframes stories of Indigenous and British interactions and illuminates the vital role that Indigenous kinship and diplomacy played in shaping the textual production of English colonial settlers in New England from the 1630s until King Philip's War. Taylor argues that genres like the conversion narrative, the post-sermon question and answer session, and scientific treatise--despite being written in English for European audiences--were jointly created by Indigenous sachems and settlers to facilitate interaction within the contested space of colonial New England. Analyzing the writings of Thomas Shepard, John Eliot, John Winthrop Jr., and Daniel Gookin and the relationships these English Protestants formed with Indigenous leaders like Wequash, Cutshamekin, Cassacinamon, and Waban, this innovative study offers a new approach to early American literature--indicating that Native thought and culture played a profound role in shaping the words and deeds of colonial writers"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes MARIE BALSLEY TAYLOR is assistant professor of English at the University of North Alabama Print version record Subject American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples -- New England Indians of North America -- Kinship -- New England HISTORY / General American literature -- Colonial period. Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples. Indians of North America -- Kinship. New England. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 1685750192 9781685750190

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