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Native American Whalemen and the World
Nancy Shoemaker
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
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, Nancy Shoemaker shows how the category of "Indian" was as fluid as the whalemen were mobile.
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Mashpee history, cultural encounters in the Pacific, Americans in Fiji, indigenous people as travelers, nineteenth-century travel, Indian intermarriage in the nineteenth century, Amos Haskins, Arctic whaling, social life on ships in the age of sail, African Americans and Indians, New Zealand whaling, Hawai'i and whaling industry, racism and Native Americans, Aquinnah history, harpooner, Shinnecock, Narragansett, skilled labor in nineteenth-century U.S. history, racial categorization in the nineteenth-century U.S., Wampanoag, Paul Cuffe, New England Indians, Pacific exploration and native peoples, sailors and race, naturalization in the nineteenth-century U.S., Mohegan, Pequot, whaling labor