"Our People Scattered:" Violence, Captivity, and Colonialism on the Northwest Coast, 1774-1846

Simple item page
dc.contributor.advisorOstler, Jeffrey
dc.contributor.authorUrrea, Ian
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-27T22:36:12Z
dc.date.available2020-02-27T22:36:12Z
dc.date.issued2020-02-27
dc.description.abstractThis thesis interrogates the practice, economy, and sociopolitics of slavery and captivity among Indigenous peoples and Euro-American colonizers on the Northwest Coast of North America from 1774-1846. Through the use of secondary and primary source materials, including the private journals of fur traders, oral histories, and anthropological analyses, this project has found that with the advent of the maritime fur trade and its subsequent evolution into a land-based fur trading economy, prolonged interactions between Euro-American agents and Indigenous peoples fundamentally altered the economy and practice of Native slavery on the Northwest Coast. Furthermore, Euro-American forms of captivity (including hostage-taking and unfree labor) intersected with the Native slave economy in distinctive and fascinating ways. Finally, this study observes that the Indigenous economic, sociopolitical, and demographic landscape of the Northwest Coast underwent various transformations in which captivity in its myriad forms assumed a central role.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/25267
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectCaptivityen_US
dc.subjectNorthwest Coasten_US
dc.subjectPacific Northwesten_US
dc.subjectSlaveryen_US
dc.title"Our People Scattered:" Violence, Captivity, and Colonialism on the Northwest Coast, 1774-1846
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of History
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Urrea_oregon_0171N_12631.pdf
Size:
4.8 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download

Collections

Theses and Dissertations
History Theses and Dissertations