Our Beloved Kin A New History of King Philip's War Lisa Brooks

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Series:: The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity
Format:: Paperback
Publication date:: 09 Apr 2019
ISBN:: 9780300244328
Imprint:: Yale University Press
Dimensions:: 448 pages: 235 x 156 x 33mm
Illustrations:: 13 b-w illus.
Sales territories:: World

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2019 Bancroft Prize winner

Winner of the Western HIstory Association's 2019 John C. Ewers Book Award and Donald L. Fixico Award

“By making what we thought was a small story very large indeed—Ms. Brooks really does give us ‘A New History of King Philip’s War.’”—The Wall Street Journal

With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, 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. Through both a narrow focus on Weetamoo, Printer, and their network of relations, and a far broader scope that includes 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 not just in extensive archival research but also in the land and communities of Native New England, reading the actions of actors during the seventeenth century alongside an analysis of the landscape and interpretations informed by tribal history.

Lisa Brooks is professor of English and American studies at Amherst College. She is the author of The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast.

“By making what we thought was a small story very large indeed—Ms. Brooks really does give us ‘A New History of King Philip’s War.’”—The Wall Street Journal

Winner of one of the 2019 Bancroft Prizes in American History and Diplomacy, sponsored by Columbia University

Winner of the 2019 New England Society in the City of New York Book Awards, Historical Nonfiction category

Listed as one of the “must read “ titles in the 19th annual non-fiction category for the Mass Center for the Book Awards.

Winner of the 2019 John C. Ewers Book Award for best book on North American Indian Ethnohistory, sponsored by the Western History Association

Winner of the 2019 Donald L. Fixico Award for best book on American Indian and Canadian First Nations History, sponsored by the Western History Association

"Brilliant, meticulously researched, a scholarly tour de force, I could not put Our Beloved Kin down!"—LeAnne Howe, Choctaw, author of Shell Shaker

"Our Beloved Kin is a major intellectual feat. With brilliant narration and storytelling, Brooks engages in a critical remapping that centers Indigenous sovereignty and kinship with conceptual rigor, methodological innovation, and important historical interventions"—J. Kehaulani Kauanui, author of Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity

"In this mesmerizing and methodologically bold reassessment of King Philip’s War, Lisa Brooks brings to life the gendered resistance to colonialism in Indigenous place-worlds through the language and landscape of kinship."—Jean M. O'Brien, author of Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England

"There have been many books about King Philip’s War but none like this. Our Beloved Kin is insightful and a better way to understand New England’s past."—Colin G. Calloway, author of The Indian World of George Washington

“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. 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