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... situate and contrast contemporary Indian-European relations in central and eastern North America as either a “middle ground” or a “native ground.” Yet these constructs reproduce the very narratives they were intended to challenge. By framing Indian responses to colonialism as a binary of assimilation...

... in the colony, close attention to this Dharawal man’s life also demonstrates the need for caution in applying “models” for cross-cultural relations in colonial contexts. However stimulating “middle ground” or “native ground” ideas may be, cross-cultural interaction in early colonial New South Wales...

... colonial power rapidly eroded the “middle ground” across the lower Great Lakes and political disputes factionalized the Shawnees, putting new pressures on how people constructed and forgot the past. Copyright 2016 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2016 Atlantic world storytelling Native...

... numerous insights about how a community deployed traditional rhetoric to seek mercy from their civil magistrate, and to provide a justification for committing acts of idolatry and child sacrifice. Rather than aligning with the canonical middle ground ( nepantla ), often used as a yardstick, this confession...

... of a Metis Society and Culture in the Great Lakes Region, 1680-1830. Ph.D diss. , Chicago:University of Illinois. Thorne, Tanis 1996 The Many Hands of My Relations: French and Indians in the Lower Missouri . Columbia:University of Missouri Press. White, Richard 1991 The Middle Ground: Indians...

... the “marital middle ground,” a space where Euro-American and indigenous partners created new, hybrid cultural forms (25). She borrows this concept from Richard White, but White regarded the middle ground as a temporary phenomenon during early colonialization, while McGrath views the marital middle ground...

... turned his attention to a broader range of political, social, and economic accommodations and adaptations between Frenchmen, Englishmen, Americans, and Indians in the Great Lakes region. In the middle ground, a tense...

...’ history” has worn thin. Long periods of native resistance and colonial failure now complicate the picture. The old presumption of inevitability—history read backwards—hides more than it reveals. If you had to pick a turning point, you would probably start with Richard White’s The Middle Ground (1991...

... that is intrinsic to native-settler relations in North America and elsewhere by situating themselves more on the agency side of the spectrum. Most prominently, Richard White ( 1992 ) has talked about a “middle ground” that indigenous communities were able to establish through their diplomacy, thus opening up...

... to 1 maintain the Algonquian-French alliance. Most recently, Richard White has envisioned the fur trade as integral to an ever evolving arena of cultural negotiation, which he labeled the ‘‘middle ground For White ‘‘the cre...

... metaphor for this process, namely, the so-called Middle Ground. Richard White’s influential study has shown that negotiations among different actors could succeed only when based on common denominators of communication: The middle ground depended on the inability of both sides to gain their ends through...

... Portage through a lens of geographic mobility. Depicted as a cosmopolitan borderland, the portage produced a complex set of human relations and protocols distinct from the conventional “middle ground” narrative of the Great Lakes. Nelson exemplifies this claim in a discussion of colonial and Indigenous...

... of these peripheries with each other as well as with the metropo- lis. A second trend, exemplified by Richard White’s The Middle Ground, has stressed the interaction of Native Americans with Europeans over pro- tracted periods in those...

... Toward a Native American Critical Theory), by seeking out middle ground, or what Moore refers to as “Ground Theory.” Ground theory is offered as a strategy by which to “keep listening in specific ways to voices of the earth that cross America’s ideological bor- ders” (5). It recognizes...

... rise to many kinds of inscriptive readaptation. In this debate the colonial remaking of native “graphism” and the emergence of what one scholar (Cohen 2008) calls an alphabetic “middle ground” (echoing White’s 1991 coinage) become parts of a single fecund discussion. It was the theme...

... University Press. Usner, Daniel H., Jr. 1992 Indians, Settlers,and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi before 1783 . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. White, Richard 1991 The Middle Ground: Indians,Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815...

... necessitated negotiation” (21), which made the English so uncomfortable that, as chapter 4 demonstrates, they devised a number of ways to whitewash this dependence in their accounts and letters home. But this negotiation is not the type one finds in Richard White’s Middle Ground , in which creative...

... . The Spanish Frontier in North America . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . Weber David . 2005 . Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . White Richard . 1991 . The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics...

.... 8 Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815, Studies in North American Indian History (New York, 1991), 94–100; Gary Clayton Anderson, Kinsmen of Another Kind: Dakota-­White Relations in the Upper Mississippi Valley...

... was recommend it to their respective colo- nies, a practically meaningless action that accounts for the lack of enthu- siasm most of them showed in promoting it when the assemblies took it under consideration. Shannon also shows that the ‘‘middle ground’’ was still functioning at the Albany Conference...