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White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America

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In nineteenth century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the Scottish Highland chief appear in similar ways–colorful and wild, righteous and warlike, the last of their kind. Earlier accounts depict both as barbarians, lacking in culture and in need of civilization. By the nineteenth century, intermarriage and cultural contact between the two–described right through the Seven Years’ War as cousins–used to be such that Cree, Mohawk, Cherokee, and Salish were continuously spoken with Gaelic accents.

On this imaginative work of imperial and tribal history, Colin Calloway examines why these two seemingly wildly disparate groups seem to have such a lot in common.

Both Highland clans and Native American societies underwent parallel experiences at the peripheries of Britain’s empire, and continuously encountered one any other at the frontier. Indeed, Highlanders and American Indians fought, traded, and lived together. Both groups were treated as tribal peoples–remnants of a barbaric past–and ultimately forced from their ancestral lands as their traditional food sources–cattle in the Highlands and bison at the Great Plains–were decimated to make way for livestock farming. In a familiar pattern, the cultures that conquered them would later romanticize the very ways of life they had destroyed.

White People, Indians, and Highlanders illustrates how these groups alternately resisted and accommodated the cultural and economic assault of colonialism, before their eventual dispossession right through the Highland Clearances and Indian Removals. What emerges is a finely-drawn portrait of how indigenous peoples with their own wealthy identities experienced cultural change, economic transformation, and demographic dislocation amidst the growing power of the British and American empires.

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