Creating Oregon from Illahee: Race, Settler-Colonialism, and Native Sovereignty in Western Oregon, 1792-1856
| dc.contributor.author | Whaley, Gray H. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-01-25T23:58:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-01-25T23:58:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2002-06 | |
| dc.description | 441 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The colonial history of Oregon requires, in my opinion, significant revision. Therefore, I addressed numerous important topics that regional historians, in my estimation, have handled incompletely. Such topics include the paradoxes of Christian mission and colony, economic speculations of the "hardy pioneers," interracial marriages and the so-called "mixed-bloods," the relationship between citizenship and white patriarchy. and the attempted extermination of the Indians of southwestern Oregon. This dissertation attempts to analyze the power of different people to shape western Oregon in the early nineteenth century. a time of fundamental changes to identity, environment, and demography. I explored both the nature of Euro-American settler-colonialism in western Oregon and Native efforts to create new forms of sovereignty under the pressures of disease, displacement. and conquest. My emphasis on colonialism provides an effective context for exploring the dynamics of power that are crucial for understanding the region's history. As well, my approach makes it possible to relate an important part of United States history 10 similar histories in the world such as New Zealand and Australia that also featured settler-colonialism and its counterparts: conquest. Native dispossession, and, in some instances, genocide. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/29246 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.subject | Lower Oregon fur trade | en_US |
| dc.subject | Experimental religion | en_US |
| dc.subject | Race wars | en_US |
| dc.subject | Native American colonies | en_US |
| dc.title | Creating Oregon from Illahee: Race, Settler-Colonialism, and Native Sovereignty in Western Oregon, 1792-1856 | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis / Dissertation | en_US |