ANTH 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Native American Religion, William C. Sturtevant, Pow Wow
14 Mar 2016
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Setlement of mashpee as an indian tribe or not, over a dispute on land. Non-intercourse act of 1790: paternalist legislaion, designed to protect tribal groups from spolizaion by unscrupulous whites, declared that alienaion of indian lands could be legally accomplished only with the permission of congress. Mashpee claim compared to maine indians: maine indians: disinct communiies and clear aboriginal roots in the area, mashpee had elusive tribal insituions, interrelated in ethnic marriages and status, etc. In mashpee, some wore regalia occasionally and a few spoke a litle indian dialect. Indian taverns: where paths crossed, appeasing of spirits in the area. Mashpee indians sufered the fate of many small naive american groups who remained in the original 13 states. Not accorded the reservaions and sovereign status of tribes. Moral and spiritual values oten naive american amalgams compounded from both local tradiions and pan-indian sources. Diversity of local histories and insituional arrangements, the long term residents of.
