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 Native in...

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Autor principal: Feller, Laura J. (Laura Janet) (Autor)
Formato: Recurso Eletrônico livro eletrônico
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2022]
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Resumo:"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.'"--
Descrição Física:1 online resource (286 pages).
ISBN:9780806191607
Acesso:Open Access