Native Americans and Wage Labor : Ethnohistorical Perspectives

by Littlefield, Alice; Knack, Martha C.

• ISBN13: 9780806128160
• ISBN10: 080612816X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

Native Americans and Wage Labor: Ethnohistorical Perspectives presents historical evidence that wage labor was prevalent among Native Americans. In this timely collection of essays, leading ethnographers and ethnohistorians, as well as innovative younger scholars, present field and primary historical evidence that wage labor was a significant American Indian economic adaptation as early as the seventeenth century in some areas and was common in many U.S. indigenous communities by the late nineteenth century. These well-written, well-documented case studies form a concrete picture of Indian dependence on wage labor from Maine to California and of Native Americans' place in the capitalist system.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Preface
Native American Labor: Retrieving History, Rethinking Theory	p. 3
Tribal Network and Migrant Labor: Mi'kmaq Indians as Seasonal Workers in Aroostook's Potato Fields, 1870-1980	p. 45
Wage Labor in Two Michigan Ottawa Communities	p. 66
Indian Education and the World of Work in Michigan, 1893-1933	p. 100
The Significance of Cheyenne Work in the History of U.S. Capitalism	p. 122
Nineteenth-Century Great Basin Indian Wage Labor	p. 144
Watering the Flower: Laguna Pueblo and the Santa Fe Railroad, 1880-1943	p. 177
Indian Labor in San Diego County, California, 1850-1900	p. 198
Wage Labor: Survival for the Death Valley Timbisha	p. 218
From Legend to Land to Labor: Changing Perspectives on Native American Work	p. 245
Notes	p. 274
References	p. 285
Contributors	p. 346
Index	p. 349
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