"We Are Not to Grow Wild": Seventeenth-Century New England's Repudiation of Anglo-Indian Intermarriage.

Smits, David D.

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ERIC Number: EJ389454

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Publication Date: 1987

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"We Are Not to Grow Wild": Seventeenth-Century New England's Repudiation of Anglo-Indian Intermarriage.

Smits, David D.

American Indian Culture and Research Journal, v11 n4 p1-31 1987

Examines religious, political, social, and economic barriers to marriage between seventeenth-century Puritan New Englanders and their Algonquian neighbors. Explains Puritan anti-Indian feelings in terms of religious fanaticism and cultural exclusiveness rather than conventional racism. Contains 82 references. (SV)

Descriptors: American Indian History, American Indians, Colonial History (United States), Cultural Influences, Ethnocentrism, Intermarriage, Puritans, Racial Relations, Religious Discrimination, Religious Factors, Social History, Sociocultural Patterns

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Language: English

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