Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia : Powhatan People and the Color Line /

"Explores experiences and strategies of tidewater Virginia Indians, descendants of peoples of the seventeenth-century Algonquian Powhatan chiefdom, in maintaining, creating, and re-creating their identities as Native Americans from the 1850s through the Jim Crow era. Examines how tidewater Nati...

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Main Author: Feller, Laura J. (Laura Janet) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Summary:"Explores experiences and strategies of tidewater Virginia Indians, descendants of peoples of the seventeenth-century Algonquian Powhatan chiefdom, in maintaining, creating, and re-creating their identities as Native Americans from the 1850s through the Jim Crow era. Examines how tidewater Native individuals, families, and communities positioned themselves as red people, rather than Black or white, in an era when some white Virginians argued that Virginia's Indians were 'mulattoes' and 'colored people.'"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (286 pages).
ISBN:9780806191607
Access:Open Access