Making Relatives of Them: Native Kinship, Politics, and Gender in the Great Lakes Country, 1790-1850

Making Relatives of Them: Native Kinship, Politics, and Gender in the Great Lakes Country, 1790-1850Kinship, as an organizing principle, gives structure to communities and cultures and it can vary as widely as the social relationships organized in its name. Making Relatives of Them examines kinship among the Great Lakes Native nations in the eventful years of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, revealing how these Indigenous peoples' understanding of kinship, in complex relationship with concepts of gender, defined their social,

challenging ideas of national belonging

that we show love and care

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The activist-as-terrorist framing is cropping up everywhere

I Will Live for Both of Us provides key insights into Inuit history

but when he's forced to work with her on the ranch

I must eat

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a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec

filled with three older Blackfeet

Featuring seventy color illustrations

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