TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shoemaker,Nancy
TI  - Native American whalemen and the world: the contingency of race 
SN  - 9781469623351
AV  - E78 .N385 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - White people
KW  - New England
KW  - Relations with Indians
KW  - Whaling
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - History
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - Fishing
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Indian whalers
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; The ship --; The Gay Head harpooner --; Race, nationality, and gender --; The primacy of rank --; The beach --; Cultural encounters --; Cycles of conquest --; New heaven --; Islands --; Native American beachcombers in the Pacific --; Race and indigeneity in the life of Elisha Apes --; Beachcombers in New England --; The reservation --; Degradation and respect --; Conclusion --; Appendix A: Native American whalemen's database --; Appendix B: Native American logbooks and journals; 2; b
N2  - In the 19th century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living travelling the world's oceans on whaleships. Many were career whalemen, spending 20 years or more at sea. Exploring the shifting racial ideologies that shaped their lives, Nancy Shoemaker shows how the category of 'Indian' was as fluid as the whalemen were mobile
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