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Inconsistent friends: Philadelphia Quakers and the development of Native American missions in the long eighteenth centuryThompson, Kari Elizabeth Rose 01 May 2013 (has links)
With theology grounded in beliefs of human equality and religious toleration, early Quakers discussed religious ideas with Native Americans, but did not conduct the kinds of missionary projects common to other English Protestants in America in their first century there. Instead, they focused on creating good relationships with the native people who lived in the area that became Pennsylvania, as well as with those beyond its borders. Despite this rhetoric, Quakers were inconsistent in enacting their own ideals. After allowing the unfair Walking Purchase of 1737 through poor government oversight, Philadelphia Quakers created a group whose aim was to reestablish peaceful relationships with Native Americans, particularly during the tumultuous Seven Years War. This group had scant success, largely limited to reinvigorating communication between Quakers and Native Americans. By 1795, Philadelphia Quakers determined they were divinely called to assist Native Americans more directly by teaching them skills of Euro-American farming and housekeeping. To that end, they began missions with the Oneida in 1796 and the Seneca in 1798. This study argues that despite Quakers' own conception of themselves as unique from other colonists and thus able to provide a superior education for Native Americans than that provided by other Protestants, Quakers were engaged in the same colonizing project as other missionaries and colonists.
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The Contested Ground of the "Peaceable Kingdom": Environmental Change and the Construction of Identity in Early Pennsylvania.Mackintosh, Michael Dean, 0000-0003-2514-4329 January 2022 (has links)
This dissertation examines the environmental changes that attended the founding of the colony of Pennsylvania and its capital city of Philadelphia in the latter part of the seventeenth century. Through engagement with the analytical methods of environmental history, ethnohistory, and ecocriticism, this dissertation demonstrates that environmental change was a vitally important factor in a series of conflicts among the various peoples of early Pennsylvania, and explores the ways that people changed their own social arrangements by changing their environment. The central conflict, the contest around which the others revolved, concerned the founding of Philadelphia. The idealistic aspirations of colonial proprietor William Penn, who envisioned (in various forms) an expansive and planned settlement designed to promote good social order, clashed with the motives of Pennsylvania’s colonists, who wanted a port city that would most efficiently facilitate the export of the colony’s agricultural production. The outcome of the conflict over the nature of Philadelphia was decisive: the colonial city was indeed, in form and function, primarily a node that served as the vibrant interface between Pennsylvania’s fertile agricultural landscape and the larger Atlantic economy. The conflict over the nature of the city also shaped the nature of the larger colony. Pennsylvania was primarily a project of environmental transformation, as colonists eagerly implemented an English-style agricultural system rooted in private property ownership and production for the Atlantic economy.
This process of environmental transformation was especially consequential for the nature of relationships among the people of the colony. The new ecological regime of Pennsylvania served as a mechanism of integration that bound together diverse inhabitants of the colony (including the English colonists who made up the majority of Pennsylvania’s settlers, non-English newcomers, and the Euro-American peoples who already occupied the land before Pennsylvania was founded) into a shared system of land use, property ownership, and market economics. At the same time, in a simultaneous process, the new agricultural system alienated the Lenape people from Pennsylvania, as the dominant land-use practices of the colony threatened to intrude on Native American independence, cultural integrity, and self-determination. Environmental change therefore contributed significantly to developing concepts of identity in early Pennsylvania that saw the increasing differentiation of Native Americans and European colonists into separate categories of people, with increasingly incompatible ecological modes and systems of land use. / History
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The historical impact and current challenges of Christian ministry among the Aboriginal people of the Delaware Bay region / John Rob NorwoodNorwood, John Rob January 2015 (has links)
The purpose of this research is to assess and address issues of contextualization and
reconciliation as they pertain to Christianization and cultural preservation within the
three Nanticoke-Lenape American Indian tribal communities remaining in the states of
New Jersey and Delaware in the United States. The study seeks to provide insight into
the challenges for ministry within the socio-cultural and political context of the tribal
communities, particularly in regard to meaningful healing and reconciliation over the
lingering effects of colonization, in a manner that promotes integral, holistic,
contextualized Christian ministry. To achieve this, the study investigates the historical
backdrop of the tribal communities, including European contact, colonization, missions,
assimilation and cultural survival. Past and present tribal lifeways, beliefs, and practices
are evaluated through documented historical sources and contemporary accounts. The
research highlights the histories and current ministries of the principal historic tribal
congregations, and their role in the spiritual, cultural, and political survival of the tribes.
It also assesses possible approaches for effective, mission oriented, compassionate
engagement as a matter of faithful contextualization and social justice.
It should be noted that within this work the terms “American Indian,” “Native
American,” “Indigenous American,” “Aboriginal American,” and “First Nations
People” are all used to describe the indigenous people of America. These terms should
not be confused with the term “Indian American,” which describes an American citizen
whose ancestors can be traced to the nation of India on the continent of Asia. / PhD (Missiology), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015
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The historical impact and current challenges of Christian ministry among the Aboriginal people of the Delaware Bay region / John Rob NorwoodNorwood, John Rob January 2015 (has links)
The purpose of this research is to assess and address issues of contextualization and
reconciliation as they pertain to Christianization and cultural preservation within the
three Nanticoke-Lenape American Indian tribal communities remaining in the states of
New Jersey and Delaware in the United States. The study seeks to provide insight into
the challenges for ministry within the socio-cultural and political context of the tribal
communities, particularly in regard to meaningful healing and reconciliation over the
lingering effects of colonization, in a manner that promotes integral, holistic,
contextualized Christian ministry. To achieve this, the study investigates the historical
backdrop of the tribal communities, including European contact, colonization, missions,
assimilation and cultural survival. Past and present tribal lifeways, beliefs, and practices
are evaluated through documented historical sources and contemporary accounts. The
research highlights the histories and current ministries of the principal historic tribal
congregations, and their role in the spiritual, cultural, and political survival of the tribes.
It also assesses possible approaches for effective, mission oriented, compassionate
engagement as a matter of faithful contextualization and social justice.
It should be noted that within this work the terms “American Indian,” “Native
American,” “Indigenous American,” “Aboriginal American,” and “First Nations
People” are all used to describe the indigenous people of America. These terms should
not be confused with the term “Indian American,” which describes an American citizen
whose ancestors can be traced to the nation of India on the continent of Asia. / PhD (Missiology), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015
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Commemorating Indiana at the 1916 Statehood Centennial Celebrations: An Examination of the Memory of Colonization and its Lingering Effects on the Indiana State Park SystemReceveur, Garrett Wayne 02 1900 (has links)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Indiana’s state park system developed as a result of state centennial celebrations in 1916. Government officials created state parks as a permanent memorial that glorified the Hoosier pioneer spirit, which celebrated actions of white colonists as they confronted challenges of the new industrial twentieth century. However, this memorialization erased the Lenni Lenape, Miami, Potawatomi, and Shawnee tribes played in the state’s history. This paper analyzes the Indiana statehood centennial celebrations as sites of erasure of Native American contributions to state and national history. It examines how Richard Lieber, the founder of the parks system, and others built the state park system to understand the ways individual state parks commemorated that Hoosier pioneer spirit at the expense of Native American voices. Turkey Run, McCormick’s Creek, Clifty Falls, Indiana Dunes, Pokagon, Spring Mill, and Lincoln State Parks are critiqued in this analysis to illustrate how each park encompasses and presents the story of colonization.
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THE BRONX COCKED BACK AND SMOKING MULTIFARIOUS PROSE PERFORMANCEAvila, Alex 01 June 2016 (has links)
The Bronx Cocked Back And Smoking is a collection of multifarious prose performances recounting the historical, personal, social, political and cultural constructs of a city birthed by violence. This body of work is accompanied by video, audio, photography, and theatre performance texts. St. Mary’s Housing project, in the Bronx, is the foundation where most of this literary work takes place. The modern day Griot (storyteller) is a Poet, guiding his audience through the social inequalities and disparities that plague St. Mary’s community. The Poet shares personal traumatic insights while simultaneously utilizing writing as a form of survival to the conditions of the Bronx. This multi-platform performance highlights the metaphorical and physical concerns with the cycle of violence. This question is answered through the Poet’s choice by selecting the pen over the gun.
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