scholarly journals “Savages” in the Service of Empire: Native American Soldiers in Gorham's Rangers, 1744–1762

2012 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian D. Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Native American ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
New England ◽  
Military Service ◽  
New England Indians ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Colonial Frontier

Gorham's Rangers, initially an all-Indian ranger company, was instrumental in Britain's conquest of Nova Scotia (Acadia) during the eighteenth century. In the process of uncovering that story, the essay assesses New England Indians’ role in shaping colonial frontier warfare as well as the impact of military service on Native American communities.

Crafting Culture at Fort St. Joseph

2019 ◽  
pp. 134-152
Author(s):  
Brock A. Giordano ◽  
Michael S. Nassaney
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Native American ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Craft Production ◽  
Great Lakes Region ◽  
Cone Production ◽  
Western Great Lakes ◽  
Colonial Frontier

The study of craft production in the context of Native American–European interactions during the eighteenth century in the western Great Lakes region has emerged as a topic of scholarly interest. An analysis of tinkling cone production both demonstrates how European raw materials were being transformed into new forms and reveals how labor was organized. By examining the technological histories of tinkling cones, this chapter illustrates that their production was conducted in independent workshops as an opportunistic activity that fit the demands of life on the colonial frontier at Fort St. Joseph.

Shellfish Collection and Community Connections in Eighteenth-Century Native New England

2014 ◽  
Vol 79 (04) ◽  
pp. 712-729 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Hunter ◽  
Stephen W. Silliman ◽  
David B. Landon
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Native American ◽  
New England ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Southern New England ◽  
Shellfish Gathering ◽  
Colonial New England ◽  
Specific Species ◽  
Cultural Connections ◽  
Eastern Pequot

Abstract In recent years, the archaeology of Native American sites in colonial contexts has increased our understanding of how indigenous communities persisted in challenging times. Greater attention to practices helps to create a more enriched picture, especially when set in the context of food and consumption. This article considers shellfish remains excavated from three households on the Eastern Pequot reservation, located several kilometers Inland from the Connecticut coast in southern New England, to explore the role that shellfish gathering played in eighteenth-century subsistence and social practices in Native New England. Household variability in the specific species and quantity consumed, as well as disposal methods, provide insight into internal community decision making. Moreover, eighteenth-century reservation demographics strongly accentuate the role of women in the provision of these foodstuffs and in maintaining cultural connections to the coast and other off-reservation communities. Practices of gathering and consuming shellfish thus provide vectors of change and continuity in Native American communities of colonial New England, showing how these practices represent not only connections to a deeper past, but also ongoing and even resurging practices to engage with a colonial present.

Eighteenth Century English in Nova Scotia

1956 ◽  
Vol 2 (R1) ◽  
pp. 3-3
Author(s):  
M. H. Scargill
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
New England ◽  
American English ◽  
British English ◽  
Early Eighteenth Century

The Original Minutes of His Majesty’s Council at Annapolis Royal, 1720–1739 show some interesting examples of English. As is to be expected, the English used corresponds closely with late seventeenth and early eighteenth century British English and with American English of New England records or the same periods. The British English documents ‘with which these Minutes have most in common are the Wentworth Papers, 1705-1739 and the Verney Letters, 1696-1717.

From Mashantucket to Appomattox: The Native American Veterans of Connecticut's Volunteer Regiments and the Union Navy

2008 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 596-635
Author(s):  
David J. Naumec
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Civil War ◽  
New England ◽  
Racial Boundaries ◽  
Social Arrangements ◽  
New England Indians

Due to complex social arrangements among New England Indians and changing perceptions of race, many New Englanders believed that most Indians in the region were “extinct,” while others viewed Indians as “colored men.” At the time of the Civil War, these perceptions allowed many Indian volunteers to cross racial boundaries and serve in both white and colored regiments.

Pobladores of New Mexico

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Oeno Sunseri
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Native American ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Identity Performance ◽  
New Mexican ◽  
Survival Skill ◽  
Colonial Frontier ◽  
Critical Survival

Eighteenth-century New Mexican buffer villages located on the most exposed margins of the Spanish colony were built by pluralistic communities that included people of Spanish descent, nomadic Native American groups, and Pueblo allies. These grants of land on the late colonial frontier were settled by communities for whom an ability to mobilize multiple and situational identities was a critical survival skill during a time of increased captive raiding by nomadic groups. Positioned to protect administrative centers, their physical and social distance created opportunities for new kinds of identity performance and anxiety-generating upward mobility, despite their rank within the socioracial hierarchy known as the sistema de castas. Later nineteenth-century villages would live through a collapse of those labels. Recent archaeological investigations of pobladore communities in New Mexico speak to the plurality of cultures manifested on the frontier and epitomized by Genízaro villages.

Economic Growth and the Standard of Living in Southern New England, 1640–1774

1988 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gloria L. Main ◽  
Jackson T. Main
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
New England ◽  
Adult Male ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
Southern New England ◽  
The Impact

This study draws upon a large sample of probated estates from early Connecticut and Massachusetts. It finds that total probate wealth per adult male grew slowly over the colonial period and its growth was confined entirely to real estate. The value of consumption goods per estate fell during the early eighteenth century which raises questions about the impact of economic growth on household life.

Dissent and Education

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Burden
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Higher Educational Institutions ◽  
Legal Restrictions ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Dissenting Academies

Much eighteenth-century Dissenting educational activity was built on an older tradition of Puritan endeavour. In the middle of the seventeenth century, the godly had seen education as an important tool in spreading their ideas but, in the aftermath of the Restoration, had found themselves increasingly excluded from universities and schools. Consequently, Dissenters began to develop their own higher educational institutions (in the shape of Dissenting academies) and also began to set up their own schools. While the enforcement of some of the legal restrictions that made it difficult for Dissenting institutions diminished across the eighteenth century, the restrictions did not disappear entirely. While there has been considerable focus on Dissenting academies and their contribution to debates about doctrinal orthodoxy, the impact of Dissenting schools was also considerable.

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