Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Native Americans"
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Snowshoe Country: Indians, Colonists, and Winter Spaces of Power in the Northeast, 1620-1727
(2013-02-08)This dissertation is a political and environmental history of winter in the colonial Northeast during some of the coldest years of the Little Ice Age. Unlike conventional histories of Atlantic encounters and environmental ... -
The Missionary Republic: Missionization, Improvement, and the Remaking of American Protestantism, 1787-1837
(2022-06-06)This dissertation seeks to explain the rise of missionary activism to a place of cultural prominence in the early American republic from the 1780s, when missions were dilapidated holdovers of British philanthropy, to the ... -
Troublesome Children: Mormon Families, Race, and United States Westward Expansion, 1848-1893
(2013-03-15)Debates over Mormons in the nineteenth century United States were rarely solely about Mormonism. This dissertation examines the ways in which Utah-oriented discourses of outsider groups influenced political debates at the ...