White People, Indians, and Highlanders - Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America Calloway Paperback
White People, Indians, and Highlanders - Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America Calloway Paperback In nineteenth century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the Scottish…
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White People, Indians, and Highlanders - Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America Calloway Paperback
In nineteenth century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the Scottish Highland chief appear in similar ways--colorful and wild, righteous and warlike, the last of their kind. By the nineteenth century, intermarriage and cultural contact between the two--described during the Seven Years' War as cousins--was such that Cree, Mohawk, Cherokee, and Salish were often spoken with Gaelic accents.In this imaginative work of imperial and tribal history, Colin Calloway examines why these two seemingly wildly disparate groups appear to have so much in common.Both Highland clans and Native American societies underwent parallel experiences on the peripheries of Britain's empire, and often encountered one another on the frontier. Earlier accounts depict both as barbarians, lacking in culture and in need of civilization.
Indeed, Highlanders and American Indians fought, traded, and