A Métis wife's tale: Race, womanhood, and adaptation to settler colonialism in the diaries of Mary Hobart Williams
As the War of 1812 drew to a stalemate, the American government began the process of state formation in the "Old Northwest," which put political, economic, and cultural pressures on the indigenous population. Among the Anishinaabeg, Menominee, Ho-Chunk, and other Native inhabitants, howeve...
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fteastmichu:oai:commons.emich.edu:theses-2464 2023-05-15T13:28:30+02:00 A Métis wife's tale: Race, womanhood, and adaptation to settler colonialism in the diaries of Mary Hobart Williams Schnurr, Rachael 2021-01-01T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://commons.emich.edu/theses/1087 https://commons.emich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2464&context=theses unknown DigitalCommons@EMU https://commons.emich.edu/theses/1087 https://commons.emich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2464&context=theses Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations fur trade Menominee Native American United States War of 1812 Wisconsin History Native American Studies Women's History text 2021 fteastmichu 2022-03-18T06:29:25Z As the War of 1812 drew to a stalemate, the American government began the process of state formation in the "Old Northwest," which put political, economic, and cultural pressures on the indigenous population. Among the Anishinaabeg, Menominee, Ho-Chunk, and other Native inhabitants, however, were fifty-three communities of mixed ancestry produced by the fur trade: the Great Lakes Metis. This project looks at the ways the Metis of Green Bay adapted to the pressures of settler colonialism through the nineteenth century. In particular, it uses the diaries of a French-Menominee woman named Mary Hobart Williams to identify examples of "survivance, "or the continued presence of indigenous peoples on the land in ways that defy cliched formulas. Williams remained stable and solvent on her own land until her death in the 1880s. She did this by adapting her labor, adding to her kinship network, and using literacy to control her world. Text anishina* Eastern Michigan University: Digital Commons@EMU Green Bay ENVELOPE(-36.014,-36.014,-54.870,-54.870) |
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As the War of 1812 drew to a stalemate, the American government began the process of state formation in the "Old Northwest," which put political, economic, and cultural pressures on the indigenous population. Among the Anishinaabeg, Menominee, Ho-Chunk, and other Native inhabitants, however, were fifty-three communities of mixed ancestry produced by the fur trade: the Great Lakes Metis. This project looks at the ways the Metis of Green Bay adapted to the pressures of settler colonialism through the nineteenth century. In particular, it uses the diaries of a French-Menominee woman named Mary Hobart Williams to identify examples of "survivance, "or the continued presence of indigenous peoples on the land in ways that defy cliched formulas. Williams remained stable and solvent on her own land until her death in the 1880s. She did this by adapting her labor, adding to her kinship network, and using literacy to control her world. |
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