Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Peoples: Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia 9780773588806

Analyzing a long-neglected element of Irish and Scottish diaspora studies. Analyzing a long-neglected element of Irish

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Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Peoples: Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia
 9780773588806

Table of contents :
Cover
Copyright
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 - The Great European Migration and Indigenous Populations
2 - James Mooney (1861–1921): The “Indian Man” and the “Irish Catholic”
3 - Jeremiah and Alma Curtin’s Indian Journeys
4 - Transnational Dimensions of Irish Anti-Imperialism, 1842–54
5 - Shamrock Aborigines: The Irish, the Aboriginal Australians, and Their Children
6 - “It Is Curious How Keenly Allied in Character Are the Scotch Highlander and the Maori”: Encounters in a New Zealand Colonial Settlement
7 - A Thorough Indian: Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Thomas Moore, Adam Kidd, and Irish Identifications with Aboriginal Culture in Canadian Literature
8 - Michael Power, the Catholic Church, and the Evangelization of the First Nations Peoples of Western Upper Canada, 1841–48
9 - Observations of a Scottish Moralist: Indigenous Peoples and the Nationalities of Canada
10 - “Going to the Land of the Yellow Men”: The Representation of Indigenous Americans in Scottish Gaelic Literature
11 - Transatlantic Rhythms: To the Far Nor’Wast and Back Again
12 - The Fur Traders’ Garden: Horticultural Imperialism in Rupert’s Land, 1670–1770
13 - Arctic Encounters:Twentieth-Century Scots in the Hudson’s Bay Company
14 - Aboriginal Fiddling: The Scottish Connection
15 - “Teller of Tales”: John Buchan, First Baron Tweedsmuir, and Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples
Contributors
Index

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