Native American Whalemen and the World

Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race

Bibliographic Data

ID19966583
AuthorsNancy Shoemaker (corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages320
Publication date2015-04-27
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueNative American Whalemen and the World (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5149/northcarolina/9781469622576.001.0001
OpenAlexW2339251409
Open LibraryOL28561151M
ISBN9781469622576
LanguageEN
Citations received10

In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world’s oceans on whaleships. Many were career whalemen, spending twenty years or more at sea. Their labor invigorated economically depressed reservations with vital income and led to complex and surprising connections with other Indigenous peoples, from the islands of the Pacific to the Arctic Ocean. At home, aboard ship, or around the world, Native American seafarers found themselves in a variety of situations, each with distinct racial expectations about who was “Indian” and how “Indians” behaved. Treated by their white neighbors as degraded dependents incapable of taking care of themselves, Native New Englanders nevertheless rose to positions of command at sea. They thereby complicated myths of exploration and expansion that depicted cultural encounters as the meeting of two peoples, whites and Indians. Highlighting the shifting racial ideologies that shaped the lives of these whalemen, this book shows how the category of “Indian” was as fluid as the whalemen were mobile

Arctic · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Geography · Ideology · Indigenous · Mythology · Native american · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The arctic · Variety (cybernetics) · White (mutation) · Anthropology · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Ecology · History · Law · Oceanography · Baleines · Chasse · Chasseurs de baleines indiens d'Amérique · Ethnic identity · Ethnic relations · Fishing · Identite ethnique · Indian whalers · Indians of North America · Indiens d'Amérique · Indigenes Volk · new england · race relations · Relations interethniques · Relations raciales · Relations with Indians · Social aspects · Social conditions · united states · Walfang · Whaling · White people · Whites

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