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Abenaki Daring
Jean Barman
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Description for Abenaki Daring
Hardback. The life and work of an Abenaki man illuminate the troubled history of Indigenous peoples. Series: McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BGH; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. Weight in Grams: 748.
An Abenaki born in St Francis, Quebec, Noel Annance (1792-1869), by virtue of two of his great-grandparents having been early white captives, attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Determined to apply his privileged education, he was caught between two ways of being, neither of which accepted him among their numbers. Despite outstanding service as an officer in the War of 1812, Annance was too Indigenous to be allowed to succeed in the far west fur trade, and too schooled in outsiders' ways to be accepted by those in charge on returning home. Annance did not crumple, but all his ... Read more
An Abenaki born in St Francis, Quebec, Noel Annance (1792-1869), by virtue of two of his great-grandparents having been early white captives, attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Determined to apply his privileged education, he was caught between two ways of being, neither of which accepted him among their numbers. Despite outstanding service as an officer in the War of 1812, Annance was too Indigenous to be allowed to succeed in the far west fur trade, and too schooled in outsiders' ways to be accepted by those in charge on returning home. Annance did not crumple, but all his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Series
McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773547926
SKU
V9780773547926
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About Jean Barman
Jean Barman is professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia.
Reviews for Abenaki Daring
" Abenaki Daring tells the story of Noel Annance whose life and career spanned the continent. The challenges he faced as an Abenaki student, as a Hudson' s Bay Company clerk, and as a political activist shed new light on the history of Aboriginal education, the social history of the fur trade, and Abenaki history in his times, as he ... Read more