One of the requirements for HIST 223 is to read "Our Beloved Kin" by Lisa Brooks. This will be important for writing an essay and for conference discussions. These notes contain the context for King Phillip's War, examination of the book from euro-centric and feminist perspectives, criticisms of t...
- Emphasis on women is a refreshing perspective when discussing colonial americas
- Author has an uphill battle against her colonial sources
- They deliberately minimalize or completely omit the importance/participation of
native women in their diplomatic debate or their agreements
- Sources are not to be read to be believed they are read to be seen through and taken apart
- She rarely accepts documentation as accurate
- Focusing on who is missing, what isn’t being said, why it’s missing and how the
subjects are avoided/the space is filled
- Even looks beyond her sources to create “scenarios” she believes could have
happened
- “Scenarios” are helpful as a reader, but not as a historian
- Told in a story format
- Establishes the stark contrast between Europeans and Indigenous people
- Humanizes characters she writes about and their perspectives
- Forces some imagined truth from her colonial sources
- Maintains a more consistent narrative that attracts the reader
- However, these “scenarios” are not well enough distinguished from her factual
statements and her direct quotes from sources
- Although they are good for a narrative, the lack of distinction makes me wonder
about inner bias projection and possible over exaggerations to push a narrative
- Gendered views not just against people, but also against lands
- Natives see land as a generous mother who is sharing her “body” to feed her
children
- Europeans see it as a fertile and lustful area “pregnant with possibility”
- Less about historical facts as the war happens, more about why these things happened
and their importance
- Comparison against wikipedia
- Women are only mentioned as “women and children…”
- Focus on militarization, on male Natives in powerful positions,
- Many lines of statistics
- No mention of English manipulation, English inner politics, steamrolling on
Native policies
- Land sale tension is less emphasized
- “Failure of diplomacy” doesn’t highlight the Native attempts and
European rejection of that diplomacy
- The book brings into question the suspicious circumstances of Wamsuttas death,
whereas the wikipedia article does not even mention it
- This shows the wikipedia article lacks much of the context that is required
to understand the tension between the natives and the Europeans
- This seems to be placing the blame back onto the Natives for picking
fights undeservedly, when really they had ample cause to be upset
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