"Our Beloved Kin" Author Lisa Brooks, Book Reading
King Philip's War through Native Eyes In Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the “First Indian War” (later named King Philip’s War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a female Wampanoag leader, and James Printer, a Nipmuc scholar, whose stories converge in the captivity of Mary Rowlandson, an English settler taken captive at Lancaster in 1675 who wrote the most famous captivity narrative of that war. Through a narrow focus on Weetamoo, Printer, and their network of relations, against a background of vast Indigenous geographies, Brooks leads us to a new understanding of the history of colonial New England, and of American origins. Brooks’s pathbreaking scholarship is grounded in extensive archival research, and in the land and communities of Native New England. She brings to life the actors of the seventeenth century alongside an analysis of their landscape and interpretations informed by tribal history. “Lisa Brooks brilliantly guides us through the “place-worlds” of Weetamoo and James Printer to create a stunningly original account of King Philip’s War that challenges the Eurocentric view of how New England was initially “settled”. The Native viewpoint changes everything we thought we knew.”—Mary Beth Norton, author of In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 Lisa Brooks is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Amherst College. Her first book, The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast (University of Minnesota Press, 2008) received the Media Ecology Association's Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture in 2011. Although deeply rooted in her Abenaki homeland, Brooks’s work has been widely influential in a global network of scholars and organizations.. These events are co-sponsored by Greenfield Community College, The Nolumbeka Project, and World Eye Bookshop
Date and Time
Thursday Feb 22, 2018
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM EST
Thursday, February 22, 7 p.m.
Location
Stinchfield Hall, Greenfield Community College, One College Drive, Greenfield
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