Finding right relations : Quakers, Native Americans, and settler colonialism / Marianne O. Nielsen and Barbara M. Heather.

Portion of title Quakers, Native Americans, and settler colonialism
Contents Introduction. Quaker settler-colonialism: its disastrous impacts on American Indians -- 1. Quaker and Lenape peacemaking in the 1700s: what Quakers didn't hear -- 2. Quaker governance: peace, politeness, or politics? -- 3. The failure of the Pennsylvania government: the Conestoga massacres -- 4. The subversive effects of colonial ideology: early Quaker attitudes toward American Indians -- 5. Quaker beliefs, colonialism, and American Indian education: contributing to cultural genocide -- 6. The universality of peacemaking: hope for social justice? -- 7. A feeling of rightness: Quaker/Indigenous relations, past, present, and future.
Abstract "Colonialism has the power to corrupt. This important new work argues that even the early Quakers, who had a belief system rooted in social justice, committed structural and cultural violence against their Indigenous neighbors"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2021041173
ISBN9780816544097 hardcover
ISBN0816544093 hardcover

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