Title At the hearth of the crossed races : a French-Indian community in nineteenth-century Oregon, 1812-1859 / Melinda Marie Jetté

Published Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 337 pages .) Series First peoples First peoples (2010) Contents List of Maps; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1. Native-Fur Trader Relations in the Willamette Valley; Chapter 2. Agrarian Colonization and the Intermittent Fever; Chapter 3. Methodist Missionaries and Community Relations; Chapter 4. Catholic Missionaries and Community Tensions; Chapter 5. American Settlers and Political Initiatives; Chapter 6. Under an Anglo-American Regime; Epilogue; Appendix 1. Pacific Fur Company Personnel in the Columbia Region, 1811-1814; Appendix 2. The First Astorian to the Willamette Valley Appendix 3. NWC Personnel in the Columbia Region, 1814-1820Appendix 4. Individuals Admitted to the Methodist Mission, 1834-1838; Appendix 5. William Slacum's Census of Willamette Valley Settlers, 1837; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary "Despite the force of Oregon's founding mythology, the Willamette Valley was not an empty Eden awaiting settlement by hardy American pioneers. Rather, it was, as Melinda Jette explores in At the Hearth of the Crossed Races, one of the earliest sites of extensive intercultural contact in the Pacific Northwest. Jette's study focuses on the 'hearth' of this contact: French Prairie, so named for the French-Indian families who resettled the homeland of the Ahantchuyuk Kalapuyans. Although these families sought a middle course in their relations with their various neighbors, their presence ultimately contributed to the Anglo-American colonization of the region. By establishing farming and husbandry operations in the valley, the French-Indian settlers enhanced the Willamette Valley's appeal as a destination of choice for the Anglo-Americans who later emigrated to the Pacific Northwest via the Oregon Trail. Upon these emigrants' arrival, the social space for the people of the 'crossed races' diminished considerably, as the Anglo-Americans instituted a system of settler colonialism based on racial exclusion. Like their Native kin, the French-Indian families pursued various strategies to navigate the changing times and Jette's study of French Prairie takes on the relationships among all three: the French-Indian families, the indigenous peoples, and the Anglo-American settlers. With At the Hearth of the Crossed Races, Jette delivers a social history that deepens our understanding of the Oregon Country in the nineteenth century. This history of French Prairie provides a window into the multi-racial history of the Pacific Northwest and offers an alternative vision of early Oregon in the lives of the biracial French-Indian families whose community challenged notions of white supremacy, racial separation, and social exclusion"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-324) and index Notes Print version record Subject Acculturation -- Oregon -- French Prairie -- History -- 19th century Indians of North America -- Mixed descent -- Oregon -- French Prairie -- History -- 19th century French Americans -- Oregon -- French Prairie -- History -- 19th century Kalapuya Indians -- Oregon -- French Prairie -- History -- 19th century British Americans -- Oregon -- French Prairie -- History -- 19th century Pioneers -- Oregon -- French Prairie -- History -- 19th century Frontier and pioneer life -- Oregon -- French Prairie Ahantchuyuk Indians -- Oregon -- French Prairie -- History -- 19th century HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Pacific Northwest (OR, Wash.) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Ahantchuyuk Indians Acculturation British Americans Colonization French Americans Frontier and pioneer life Indians of North America -- Mixed descent Kalapuya Indians Pioneers Race relations SUBJECT French Prairie (Or.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century French Prairie (Or.) -- Colonization French Prairie (Or.) -- History -- 19th century Subject Oregon -- French Prairie Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0870715984 9780870715983

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