March 2013 Archives

Harvard University's Tozzer Library recently digitized Photographs of North American Indians. ca. 1850-1879.

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:8403858

More information on this collection can be found here:

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/03/portraits-of-vanished-indian-life/

Jean M. O'Brien to Speak at Inaugural Wilbert H. Ahern Distinguished Lecture
University of Minnesota, Morris campus

The lecture will be streamed online

Event Date/Time: Monday, Mar. 4, 2013 7:30 pm
Location: HFA Recital Hall

Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England. O'Brien, Jean, University of Minnesota Press, Author, 2010.

Jean O'Brien, PhD, University of Minnesota

Other works by Jean O'Brien

Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790. O'Brien, Jean, Cambridge University Press, 1997.

"Why Here? Scholarly Locations for American Indian Studies". O'Brien, Jean, American Quarterly, 2003.

"'Vanishing' Indians in Nineteenth-Century New England: Local Historians' Erasure of Still-Present Indian People". O'Brien, Jean, Sergei Kan and Pauline Turner Stong, eds., New Perspectives on Native North America, 2006.

"O'Brien, Jean. "'Our Old and Valuable Liberty': A Natick Indian Petition in Defense of Their Fishing Rights, 1748." Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology. N.p.: University of Massachussetts, 2008.

O'Brien, J. (1995). Divorced from the Land: Accommodation Strategies of Indian Women in Eighteenth-Century New England. In Gender, kinship, power: an interdisciplinary and comparative history (pp. pp. 319-333). New York, N.Y.: Routledge.