Title White captives : gender and ethnicity on the American frontier / June Namias

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1993

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 378 pages) : illustrations Contents White actors on a field of red. White women held captive ; White men held captive ; Exploring sexual boundaries -- Women in times of change. Jane McCrea and the American Revolution ; Mary Jemison: the evolution of one captive's story ; Sarah Wakefield and the Dakota War -- Women and children first Summary White Captives offers a new analysis of Indian-white coexistence on the American frontier. June Namias shows that visual, literary, and historical accounts of the capture of Euro-Americans by Indians during the colonial Indian Wars, the American Revolution, and the Civil War are commentaries on the uncertain boundaries of gender, race, and culture. She demonstrates that these captivity materials, which most often feature as victims white women and children (the most vulnerable members of their communities), vividly portray anxieties about gender and ethnicity on the frontier and in American society. Namias begins by comparing the experiences and representations of male and female captives over time and on successive frontiers, from colonial New England to mid-nineteenth-century Minnesota, and explores how the stories transformed victims of historical circumstance into heroes and heroines. She then uses the narratives of three captives - Jane McCrea, Mary Jemison, and Sarah Wakefield - as case studies, arguing that they describe the fears of sexual contact between native cultures and white settlers and illustrate issues of female survival, independence, and competence. Moreover, she finds that these and other stories also reflect the major role of women and children in the migration process. According to Namias, both the historical reality and the reworked tales of capture offered white Americans new ways of looking at gender and ethnic relations by contrasting their own roles and value with those presumed to be Indian. Thus, while elements of horror, propaganda, mythmaking, and ethnographic documentary characterized the accounts, captivity materials served a larger purpose by providing a framework for notions of gender and cultural conflict on the frontier Analysis Ethnic groups Social interactions History United States Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-366) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject McCrea, Jane, 1753-1777. Jemison, Mary, 1743-1833. Wakefield, Sarah F. SUBJECT Jemison, Mary, 1743-1833 fast McCrea, Jane, 1753-1777 fast Wakefield, Sarah F. fast MacCrea, Jane, 1753-1777. (NL-LeOCL)122449932 nta Jemison, Mary, 1743-1833. (NL-LeOCL)122450019 nta Wakefield, Sarah F., 1829-1899. (NL-LeOCL)122450108 nta Subject Indian captivities -- United States Ethnicity -- United States -- History Indians of North America -- Sexual behavior. Indians -- Sexual behavior -- United States SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Indians -- Sexual behavior Ethnicity Indian captivities Indians of North America -- Sexual behavior Gefangener Weibliche Gefangene Blanken. Indianen. Gevangenen. Indiens -- Amérique du Nord -- Sexualité. Ethnicité -- États-Unis -- Histoire. Indiens -- États-Unis -- Captifs. Prisonniers des Indiens. 15.85 history of America. Ethnicity -- United States -- History. Indians of North America -- Social life and customs. Indians of North America -- History. Indian captivities. Iwi taketake. Amérindien (peuple) -- blanc (race) -- captivité -- femme -- Amérique du Nord. ethnicité -- frontière -- pionnier -- Amérique du Nord. Amérindien (peuple) -- captivité -- MacCrea, Jane -- Amérique du Nord. Amérindien (peuple) -- captivité -- Jemison, Mary -- Amérique du Nord. Amérindien (peuple) -- captivité -- Wakefield, Sarah F. -- Amérique du Nord. Indians of North America -- Captives. United States USA Indianer. Weiße. United States -- Native races -- History. Genre/Form History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 0807876097 9780807876091

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