Making Relatives of Them Volume 21 - 9780806192826

Making Relatives of Them Volume 21Native Kinship, Politics, and Gender in the Great Lakes Country, 1790-1850\nAuthor(s): Rebecca Kugel\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press, United States\nImprint: University of Oklahoma Press\nISBN-13: 9780806192826, 978-0806192826\nSynopsis\nKinship, as an organizing principle, gives structure to communities and culturesand it can vary as widely as the social relationships organized in its name. Making Relatives of Them examines kinship among the Great Lakes Native nations in the eventful years of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, revealing how these Indigenous peoples understanding of kinship, in complex relationship with concepts of gender, defined their social, political, and diplomatic interactions with one another and with Europeans and their descendants.\n\n For these Native nationsWyandot, Shawnee, Delaware, Miami, Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, Dakota, Menomini, and Ho-chunkthe constructs and practices of ki.