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Book

Finding right relations : Quakers, Native Americans, and settler colonialism

Call Number

  • 970.00497 N6696 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2022.

Physical Description

x, 212 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

"Colonialism has the power to corrupt. This important new work argues that even the early Quakers, who had a belief system rooted in social justice, committed structural and cultural violence against their Indigenous neighbors"--

Contents

  • Introduction. Quaker settler-colonialism : its disastrous impacts on American Indians
  • 1. Quaker and Lenape peacemaking in the 1700s : what Quakers didn't hear
  • 2. Quaker governance : peace, politeness, or politics?
  • 3. The failure of the Pennsylvania government : the Conestoga massacres
  • 4. The subversive effects of colonial ideology : early Quaker attitudes toward American Indians
  • 5. Quaker beliefs, colonialism, and American Indian education : contributing to cultural genocide
  • 6. The universality of peacemaking : hope for social justice?
  • 7. A feeling of rightness : Quaker/Indigenous relations, past, present, and future.

Subjects

Added Authors

Barbara M Heather