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Author Rubertone, Patricia E., author

Title Native Providence : memory, community, and survivance in the Northeast / Patricia E. Rubertone
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 434 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Narrating Indigeneity in a "Thoroughfare Town" -- Fox Point: A Waterfront Homeland, Encounters at a Stopping-Over Place, and Indigenous Legibility -- Lippitt Hill: Homelands of the Hill and Hollows, Unholy Water, and Traditional Knowledge -- Upper South Providence: Homeland at the Crossroads, Churchgoing and Community Making -- Lower South Providence: Habitations by the River and Bay, Mobility, and the Urban Imaginary -- Mashapaug Pond: The Pond Lands, From Planting Fields to Industrial Transformations -- Federal Hill: Homeland above the River at the Town's Doorstep, Commonplace Streets, and Uncommon Labor -- Johnston: Homeland at the Borderlands, Powwows, and Urban Mythscapes -- Imagining Past, Present and Future Urbanity
Summary "Native Providence reveals stories of Native urban life in the Northeast United States shaped by the dynamics of colonialism, race, and class, and not in the least by the survivance of people who today still live among the ruins of modernity"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Indians of North America -- Rhode Island -- Providence -- Biography
Indians of North America -- Rhode Island -- Providence -- Genealogy
Cultural landscapes -- Rhode Island -- Providence
Narragansett Indians -- Cultural assimilation
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation -- Rhode Island -- Providence
Indians of North America -- Rhode Island -- Providence -- Antiquities
Urban Indians -- North America
Genealogy.
History.
History
history (discipline)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
Urban Indians
History
Genealogy
Cultural landscapes
Indians of North America
Indians of North America -- Antiquities
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation
SUBJECT Providence (R.I.) -- History
Providence (R.I.) -- Biography
Providence (R.I.) -- Genealogy
Subject North America
Rhode Island -- Providence
Genre/Form Biographies
Genealogy
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781496224019
1496224019