Oregon and the Collapse of Illahee

U.S. Empire and the Transformation of an Indigenous World, 1792-1859

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2708748
AutoresGray H Whaley (autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Páginas315
Data de publicação2010-06-15
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoOregon and the collapse of Illahee (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraUniversity of North Carolina Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5149/9780807898314_whaley
OpenAlexW4239502745
ISBN9780807898314
Open LibraryOL23972419M
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11

Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States. This book examines relations among newcomers and between newcomers and Native peoples—focusing on political sovereignty, religion, trade, sexuality, and the land—from initial encounters to Oregon's statehood. It emphasizes Native perspectives, using the Chinook word Illahee (homeland) to refer to the indigenous world it examines, and argues that the process of Oregon's founding is best understood as a contest between the British Empire and a nascent American one, with Oregon's Native people and their lands at the heart of the conflict. The chapter identifies race, republicanism, liberal economics, and violence as the key ideological and practical components of American settler-colonialism. Native peoples faced capriciousness, demographic collapse, and attempted genocide, but they fought to preserve Illahee even as external forces caused the collapse of their world

Colonialism · CONTEST · Criminology · Empire · Ethnology · Genocide · Homeland · Ideology · Indigenous · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Archaeology and Natural History · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · 1789-1869 · Government relations · Indians of North America · Oregon · race relations · Relations with Indians · Treatment of Indians · united states · White people · Whites