Coll Thrush
Biographic Data
| ID | 455214 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Coll Thrush |
| GIVEN NAMES | Coll |
| FAMILY NAME | Thrush |
| SIGNATURE | THRUSH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Unrecognized in California: Federal Acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians
An inside account of one Luiseño tribe's history and their efforts to be recognized by the United States With the largest number of Native Americans as well as the most non-federally recognized tribes in the United States, the state of California is a key site for sovereignty struggles, including federal recognition. In Unrecognized in California , Olivia M. Chilcote, member of the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians of San Diego County, demonst…
American Indians and the American Dream: Policies, Place, and Property in Minnesota by Kasey Keeler (review)
Reviewed by: American Indians and the American Dream: Policies, Place, and Property in Minnesota by Kasey Keeler Coll Thrush (bio) American Indians and the American Dream: Policies, Place, and Property in Minnesota by Kasey Keeler University of Minnesota Press, 2023 WHAT DO a Civil War–era campaign of genocide and a 1992 federal home loan program have to do with each other? A lot, it turns out. Kasey R. Keeler's excellent examination of the polit…
Outback and Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary
Journal Article Outback and Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary Get access Outback and Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary. By Tom Lynch. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. xii, 335 pp. $60.00.) Coll Thrush Coll Thrush University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 111, Issue 1, June 2024…
Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women's Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program
Traces young Native women’s lives and experiences as Bay Area domestic workers In the early twentieth century, the Bay Area Outing Program coercively recruited over a thousand Native girls and women from boarding schools to labor as live-in domestic workers across the San Francisco Bay Area. Outing removed Native people from their communities and transferred them to white homes, farms, and businesses to work as menial laborers. In exchange for ro…
Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California
Connects California cannabis production to the violence and dispossession of Indigenous land and people Young countercultural back-to-the-land settlers flocked to northwestern California beginning in the 1960s, and by the 1970s, unregulated cannabis production proliferated on Indigenous lands. As of 2021, the California cannabis economy was valued at $3.5 billion. In Settler Cannabis , Kaitlin Reed demonstrates how this "green rush" is only the m…
Lewis & Clark Reframed: Examining Ties to Cook, Vancouver, and Mackenzie. By David L. Nicandri. Foreword by Clay S. Jenkinson
Journal Article Lewis & Clark Reframed: Examining Ties to Cook, Vancouver, and Mackenzie. By David L. Nicandri. Foreword by Clay S. Jenkinson Get access Lewis & Clark Reframed: Examining Ties to Cook, Vancouver, and Mackenzie. By David L. Nicandri. Foreword by Clay S. Jenkinson. (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2020. xxviii + 156 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $32.95, paper.) Coll Thrush Coll Thrush University of British Colum…
Thunder Go North: The Hunt for Sir Francis Drake's Fair and Good Bay
This book is a necessary reckoning,” writes Melissa Darby (p. 7). Certainly, Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the globe, the backdrop for Darby's work, has long fascinated and confounded historians. One oft-debated aspect of the journey centers on how far north along the western coast of North America Drake and his crew traveled. Widespread consensus is that Drake's “fair and good bay,” where the English encountered Indigenous people as they r…
Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism: Approaching the Imperial Archive
Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism: Approaching the Imperial Archive." Australian Historical Studies, 49(2), pp. 274–275
A Devil’s Looking Glass, circa 1576
Dr. Dee’s Mirror Obsidian Mexica, 15th–16th century A.D. Diameter: 18.400 cm M&ME 1966, 10-1, 1 Enlightenment: Religion Earth, spit up the black drink from the Underworld,pour itztli , hot black glass, out onto yourself.Black glass waits in craters and on smoking slopes; it waits for the people....
A Notebook, 1929
Do you see this? He pins black cloth over his greatcoat,leaves his room in Warner Street and trundles his olding bonesdown to the Strandwhere Australia House corners the thoroughfare.The black cloth speaks indictment. Coveredin toy skeletons, it drapes his stooping shoulders,...
That Kind Urbanity of Manner: Navigating Ritual in Māori and Kānaka Maoli London, 1806–1866
This chapter analyzes how London became a place driven by ritual. As scholars of the early nineteenth century have noted, British society experienced a social revolution in which an ever more formal culture “acquired taboos, introduced strict rules of propriety, and became reticent about sex and the emotions revolting from the customs of their elders.” The word most often used to describe this new reality was “manners.” Simultaneously lauded and …
Alive from America: Indigenous Diplomacies and Urban Disorder, 1710–1765
This chapter looks at how Indigenous North Americans have become emissaries seeking to cement political, military, and economic relations with the Crown within a deepening transatlantic system of trade, political alliance, and warfare. In 1710, four men—three of them Mohawk, the fourth from the allied Mahicans—captivated the city, becoming known as the Four Kings. In 1734, a group of Yamacraw elites came from the new colony of Georgia to establis…
A Hat Factory, circa 1875
Above a sea of chimneypotted and stovepiped men,four gargoyles perch in the Oxford Street skyline.Neither lions nor demons nor saints: beavers. They look down fromHenry Heath’s factory, where seventy men sew and blockVictorian manhood.Newly carved and ensconced, the beavers are already epitaphs...
Civilization Itself Consents: Disciplining Bodies in Imperial Suburbia, 1861–1914
This chapter considers two moments—an ethnographic display of military regimentation from the third quarter of the nineteenth century, and an anti-modern jeremiad from the first years of the twentieth. Both involved North American Indigenous people and were deeply shaped by narratives of civilization and progress. But perhaps more importantly, both happened in a specific place and time: the late Victorian and Edwardian city, where particular kind…
Atlantes, 1761
Atlantes (n. pl.): The plural form of atlas; stone carvings of male figures, used as columns to support the entablature of a Greek or Greek-style structure. What a cannonball does to a human body: blossoms it in pink and white and red and grey and yellow,...
The City of Long Memory: Remembering and Reclaiming Indigenous London, 1982–2013
This chapter talks about a certain repatriation that has taken place in London: the remembering and reclaiming of the city and of Indigenous travelers by descendant communities. In this entanglement of memory between the city and its Indigenous history, activism, ceremony, and reenactment are central to the story. Indigenous communities, particularly from Canada, have continued to assert relationships to the Crown through journeys to London, in a…
Epilogue: The Other Indigenous London
This concluding chapter reviews the gallery “London Before London,” which is described as a vision of indigenous humanity. Upon viewing “London Before London,” one could be reminded of the many museums that have been established by Indigenous communities and nations in the past half century, in which Indigenous people have taken charge of the public interpretation of their lived history and culture, presenting themselves not as static denizens of…
A Debtor’s Petition, 1676
Come listen to me and I will declare a story as true as you ever did hear I merry will be while my money doth last and only will shew that the worst is past. King’s Bench. Queen’s Bench. Wood Street. Poultry. Fleet. Ludgate. Tothill Fields. Coldbath Fields....
The Unhidden City: Imagining Indigenous Londons
This chapter adds to the canon of secret Londons through the inscription of another layer, another arcane and invisible text in the palimpsest that is the urban landscape. Such accounts of other Londons gesture toward the irreducible survivals of past landscapes in a place that constantly unearths its own history. As stated by Prof. Timothy Morton, “the streets beneath the streets, the Roman Wall, the boarded-up houses, the unexploded bombs, are …
“Such Confusion As I Never Dreamt”: Indigenous Reasonings in an Unreasonable City, 1766–1785
This chapter explores how the the combination of animal domestication and widespread urbanization across Europe, Asia, and Africa had led to the development of epidemic diseases against which Indigenous peoples in the Americas and elsewhere had little or no natural resistance. It was this urban reality that had likely cost the lives of the Algonquian people who disappeared into the city and that had prevented four of the five Inuit from making it…
A Lost Museum, 1793
Sparry bodies, eagle stones, Muscovy mica, ponderous earths ; garnets of twenty-six sides, violet fluors, Brazil rubies, Peru emeralds. Eora people are singing, Eora people are dreaming, Eora people are stick-firing the land, Eora people are seeing the ships come in. Eora people are greeting the newcomers, Eora people...
Dawnland Telescopes: Making Colonial Knowledge in Algonquian London, 1580–1630
This chapter examines how London had to learn to be colonial. From the very first moments of sustained encounter in the late sixteenth century, places like Ossomocomuck and London were entangled through the creation of knowledge. Even before explorers stepped ashore in “Virginia,” they were propelled there by an unprecedented urban crisis that threatened the stability of London society. This urban context shaped how English explorers and colonist…
Urban Native Histories
Urbanization has profoundly affected indigenous peoples. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, more than half of all American Indian and Alaskan Native people live not on reservations or in rural areas, but in towns and cities. According to the 2000 US census, some of the largest Indian populations are in places like Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Seattle. This study focuses on the widespread indigenous history in and of urban places to dr…
Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire
Panguru and the City: Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua: An Urban Migration History
While the majority of Indigenous people in countries such as Australia, New Zealand, the US and Canada now live in urban areas, scholarly treatments of the subject of Indigenous urbanisation—and be
Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire
This book provides an imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries. London is famed both as the ancient center of a former empire and as a modern metropolis of bewildering complexity and diversity. This book offers an imaginative vision of the city's past crafted from an almost entirely new perspective: that of Indigenous children…
The Iceberg and the Cathedral: Encounter, Entanglement, and Isuma in Inuit London
In 1772, entrepreneur George Cartwright brought five Inuit people to England from Nunatsiavut (Labrador). Most of their time was spent in London, where they encountered many of the city's sights and experienced its social divisions and environmental conditions. This article explores their voyage, challenging the notion that “primitives” such as the Inuit visitors were necessarily awed into submission by the urban landscape. Rather, they understoo…
Finding Fault: Indigenous Seismology, Colonial Science, and the Rediscovery of Earthquakes and Tsunamis in Cascadia
On Ash Wednesday in the new millennium's first year, the earth deep beneath Puget Sound slipped. Some thirty miles below Anderson Island, just off the Nisqually River's delta, a piece of the planet's crust fractured and slipped a meter or so, and sent out pulses of energy the equivalent of about thirtyfive Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs. The resulting earthquake was felt from northern Oregon to British Columbia and had major effects throughout the …
City of the Changers
Between the 1880s and the 1930s indigenous people continued to eke out traditional livings along the waterways and shorelines of Seattle's urbanizing and industrializing landscape. During those same years, however, the city's civic leaders and urban planners oversaw massive transformations of that landscape, including the creation of a ship canal linking Puget Sound with Lake Washington and the straightening of the Duwamish River. These transform…
Vancouver the Cannibal: Cuisine, Encounter, and the Dilemma of Difference on the Northwest Coast, 1774-1808
Food is fundamental. As Felipe Fernández-Armesto has written, food "has a good claim to be considered the world's most important subject. It is what matters most to most people for most of the time" (Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food [New York, 2002], ix). We are what we eat, both materially and discursively, both in terms of the ecological networks that provide us with sustenance and the identities that define who we are as social, cultu…
Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism: Approaching the Imperial Archive
Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism: Approaching the Imperial Archive." Australian Historical Studies, 49(2), pp. 274–275
City of the Changers
Between the 1880s and the 1930s indigenous people continued to eke out traditional livings along the waterways and shorelines of Seattle's urbanizing and industrializing landscape. During those same years, however, the city's civic leaders and urban planners oversaw massive transformations of that landscape, including the creation of a ship canal linking Puget Sound with Lake Washington and the straightening of the Duwamish River. These transform…
P utting M eat on the A merican T able: T aste , T echnology , T ransformation by Roger Horowitz
(2007). Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, Transformation by Roger Horowitz. Food, Culture & Society: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 349-351
Finding Fault: Indigenous Seismology, Colonial Science, and the Rediscovery of Earthquakes and Tsunamis in Cascadia
On Ash Wednesday in the new millennium's first year, the earth deep beneath Puget Sound slipped. Some thirty miles below Anderson Island, just off the Nisqually River's delta, a piece of the planet's crust fractured and slipped a meter or so, and sent out pulses of energy the equivalent of about thirtyfive Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs. The resulting earthquake was felt from northern Oregon to British Columbia and had major effects throughout the …
Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence: Native Ghosts in North American Culture and History
Vancouver the Cannibal: Cuisine, Encounter, and the Dilemma of Difference on the Northwest Coast, 1774-1808
Food is fundamental. As Felipe Fernández-Armesto has written, food "has a good claim to be considered the world's most important subject. It is what matters most to most people for most of the time" (Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food [New York, 2002], ix). We are what we eat, both materially and discursively, both in terms of the ecological networks that provide us with sustenance and the identities that define who we are as social, cultu…
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The Savage Visit: New World people and popular imperial culture in Britain, 1710–1795 by Kate Fullagar (review)
Reviewed by: The Savage Visit: New World people and popular imperial culture in Britain, 1710–1795 by Kate Fullagar Coll Thrush The Savage Visit: New World people and popular imperial culture in Britain, 1710–1795 By Kate Fullagar. Berkeley: University of California, 2012. A self-described Eurocentric project, Kate Fullagar’s The Savage Visit is nonetheless auseful contribution to the growing literature on Indigenous people in Europe during the r…
Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire by Nicholas Thomas (review)
NAIS 1:1 SPRING 2014 Reviews 131 COLL THRUSH Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire by Nicholas Thomas Yale University Press, 2010 BEST KNOWN FOR HIS BOOK Entangled Objects (1991), Nicholas Thomas begins the award-winning Islanders with one of those moments of colonial entanglement that continue to fascinate scholars and confound expectations. Rather than opening this excellent history of the long nineteenth century in the South Pacific with…
The Iceberg and the Cathedral: Encounter, Entanglement, and Isuma in Inuit London
In 1772, entrepreneur George Cartwright brought five Inuit people to England from Nunatsiavut (Labrador). Most of their time was spent in London, where they encountered many of the city's sights and experienced its social divisions and environmental conditions. This article explores their voyage, challenging the notion that “primitives” such as the Inuit visitors were necessarily awed into submission by the urban landscape. Rather, they understoo…
Monument, Mobility, and Modernity; Or, the Sachem of Southwark and Other Surprising Commemorations
Offering an overview of the other four essays in this special section, this essay also opens up broader ground for consideration. It begins with the story of Mahomet Weyonomon, a Mohegan sachem who traveled to London in 1736 to present a land-rights petition to George II but who died of smallpox before he could complete his task. Two hundred seventy years later, the Mohegan Tribe, with the help of Elizabeth II, unveiled a monument to Mahomet at S…
A Devil’s Looking Glass, circa 1576
Dr. Dee’s Mirror Obsidian Mexica, 15th–16th century A.D. Diameter: 18.400 cm M&ME 1966, 10-1, 1 Enlightenment: Religion Earth, spit up the black drink from the Underworld,pour itztli , hot black glass, out onto yourself.Black glass waits in craters and on smoking slopes; it waits for the people....
A Notebook, 1929
Do you see this? He pins black cloth over his greatcoat,leaves his room in Warner Street and trundles his olding bonesdown to the Strandwhere Australia House corners the thoroughfare.The black cloth speaks indictment. Coveredin toy skeletons, it drapes his stooping shoulders,...
That Kind Urbanity of Manner: Navigating Ritual in Māori and Kānaka Maoli London, 1806–1866
This chapter analyzes how London became a place driven by ritual. As scholars of the early nineteenth century have noted, British society experienced a social revolution in which an ever more formal culture “acquired taboos, introduced strict rules of propriety, and became reticent about sex and the emotions revolting from the customs of their elders.” The word most often used to describe this new reality was “manners.” Simultaneously lauded and …
Alive from America: Indigenous Diplomacies and Urban Disorder, 1710–1765
This chapter looks at how Indigenous North Americans have become emissaries seeking to cement political, military, and economic relations with the Crown within a deepening transatlantic system of trade, political alliance, and warfare. In 1710, four men—three of them Mohawk, the fourth from the allied Mahicans—captivated the city, becoming known as the Four Kings. In 1734, a group of Yamacraw elites came from the new colony of Georgia to establis…
A Hat Factory, circa 1875
Above a sea of chimneypotted and stovepiped men,four gargoyles perch in the Oxford Street skyline.Neither lions nor demons nor saints: beavers. They look down fromHenry Heath’s factory, where seventy men sew and blockVictorian manhood.Newly carved and ensconced, the beavers are already epitaphs...
Civilization Itself Consents: Disciplining Bodies in Imperial Suburbia, 1861–1914
This chapter considers two moments—an ethnographic display of military regimentation from the third quarter of the nineteenth century, and an anti-modern jeremiad from the first years of the twentieth. Both involved North American Indigenous people and were deeply shaped by narratives of civilization and progress. But perhaps more importantly, both happened in a specific place and time: the late Victorian and Edwardian city, where particular kind…
Atlantes, 1761
Atlantes (n. pl.): The plural form of atlas; stone carvings of male figures, used as columns to support the entablature of a Greek or Greek-style structure. What a cannonball does to a human body: blossoms it in pink and white and red and grey and yellow,...
The City of Long Memory: Remembering and Reclaiming Indigenous London, 1982–2013
This chapter talks about a certain repatriation that has taken place in London: the remembering and reclaiming of the city and of Indigenous travelers by descendant communities. In this entanglement of memory between the city and its Indigenous history, activism, ceremony, and reenactment are central to the story. Indigenous communities, particularly from Canada, have continued to assert relationships to the Crown through journeys to London, in a…
Epilogue: The Other Indigenous London
This concluding chapter reviews the gallery “London Before London,” which is described as a vision of indigenous humanity. Upon viewing “London Before London,” one could be reminded of the many museums that have been established by Indigenous communities and nations in the past half century, in which Indigenous people have taken charge of the public interpretation of their lived history and culture, presenting themselves not as static denizens of…
A Debtor’s Petition, 1676
Come listen to me and I will declare a story as true as you ever did hear I merry will be while my money doth last and only will shew that the worst is past. King’s Bench. Queen’s Bench. Wood Street. Poultry. Fleet. Ludgate. Tothill Fields. Coldbath Fields....
The Unhidden City: Imagining Indigenous Londons
This chapter adds to the canon of secret Londons through the inscription of another layer, another arcane and invisible text in the palimpsest that is the urban landscape. Such accounts of other Londons gesture toward the irreducible survivals of past landscapes in a place that constantly unearths its own history. As stated by Prof. Timothy Morton, “the streets beneath the streets, the Roman Wall, the boarded-up houses, the unexploded bombs, are …
“Such Confusion As I Never Dreamt”: Indigenous Reasonings in an Unreasonable City, 1766–1785
This chapter explores how the the combination of animal domestication and widespread urbanization across Europe, Asia, and Africa had led to the development of epidemic diseases against which Indigenous peoples in the Americas and elsewhere had little or no natural resistance. It was this urban reality that had likely cost the lives of the Algonquian people who disappeared into the city and that had prevented four of the five Inuit from making it…
A Lost Museum, 1793
Sparry bodies, eagle stones, Muscovy mica, ponderous earths ; garnets of twenty-six sides, violet fluors, Brazil rubies, Peru emeralds. Eora people are singing, Eora people are dreaming, Eora people are stick-firing the land, Eora people are seeing the ships come in. Eora people are greeting the newcomers, Eora people...
Dawnland Telescopes: Making Colonial Knowledge in Algonquian London, 1580–1630
This chapter examines how London had to learn to be colonial. From the very first moments of sustained encounter in the late sixteenth century, places like Ossomocomuck and London were entangled through the creation of knowledge. Even before explorers stepped ashore in “Virginia,” they were propelled there by an unprecedented urban crisis that threatened the stability of London society. This urban context shaped how English explorers and colonist…
Urban Native Histories
Urbanization has profoundly affected indigenous peoples. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, more than half of all American Indian and Alaskan Native people live not on reservations or in rural areas, but in towns and cities. According to the 2000 US census, some of the largest Indian populations are in places like Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Seattle. This study focuses on the widespread indigenous history in and of urban places to dr…
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