Native American Whalemen and the World Indigenous Encounters and c of Race 1st Edition by Nancy Shoemaker ISBN ‎ 978-1469622576 1469622572

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ISBN 10: ‎ 1469622572

ISBN 13: 978-1469622576

Author:  Nancy Shoemaker

In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world’s oceans on whaleships. Many were career whalemen, spending twenty years or more at sea. Their labor invigorated economically depressed reservations with vital income and led to complex and surprising connections with other Indigenous peoples, from the islands of the Pacific to the Arctic Ocean. At home, aboard ship, or around the world, Native American seafarers found themselves in a variety of situations, each with distinct racial expectations about who was “Indian” and how “Indians” behaved. Treated by their white neighbors as degraded dependents incapable of taking care of themselves, Native New Englanders nevertheless rose to positions of command at sea. They thereby complicated myths of exploration and expansion that depicted cultural encounters as the meeting of two peoples, whites and Indians.

Highlighting the shifting racial ideologies that shaped the lives of these whalemen, Nancy Shoemaker shows how the category of “Indian” was as fluid as the whalemen were mobile.

Table of contents: 

Part I. The Ship
2.1. The Gay Head Harpooner
2.2. Race, Nationality, and Gender
2.3. The Primacy of Rank

Part II. The Beach
3.1. Cultural Encounters
3.2. Cycles of Conquest
3.3. New Heaven

Part III. Islands
4.1. Native American Beachcombers in the Pacific
4.2. Race and Indigeneity in the Life of Elisha Apes
4.3. Beachcombers in New England

Part IV. The Reservation
5.1. Degradation and Respect

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