Rubertone, Patricia E.,

Native Providence : memory, community, and survivance in the Northeast / Patricia E. Rubertone. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (xxiv, 434 pages) : illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

"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"--



9781496224019


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--Antiquities.--Rhode Island--Providence
Urban Indians--North America.
Genealogy.
History.


Electronic Books.

E78 / .N385 2020