Cross Cultural Marriage
Cahill, Cathleen
Civilized Enough to Marry a White Woman: Indian-White Intermarriage
and the Problem of Race in the Late 19th Century
This paper explores the personal and social meanings of marriages
between White women and Indian men during the late nineteenth
century. It focuses on two couples, Elaine Goodale Eastman
and Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) and Corabelle Fellows and Samuel
Campbell (Chaska), who met while employed in the federal Indian
Service. These relationships carried ideological weight within
debates over Indian assimilation, both because marriage was
a central component of assimilation policy and because access
to white womenÕs sexuality was symbolically equated
with white male power in the United States. These findings
indicate substantial flexibility in the American racial order
and challenge existing accounts of race relations around the
turn of the century.
Demers, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Mitchell and the Mackinac Fur Trade: Intermarriage
and Commerce in the Early Republic
In 1776, métis Elizabeth Bertrand married military
surgeon David Mitchell at Michilimackinac, and over the next
half-century, built a formidable fur trade concern. Elizabeth
clashed frequently with U.S. authorities, who feared her Native
connections and influence; yet, she also hosted the wedding
of commandant Benjamin Pierce, brother of the future president,
all while remaining a British subject. This paper examines
how Elizabeth manipulated the networks into which she married
and raised her children. Like other Native women, Mitchell
discovered that, in lieu of being a middleman, she could use
her marriage to further her own ambitions in a politically
volatile milieu
Wynn, Kerry
Citizenship and Cross Cultural Marriage in the Cherokee Nation
and the United States, 1880-1920
This paper examines the importance of gender, race, and intermarriage
to the construction of citizenship in the shifting relationship
between the Cherokee Nation and the United States around the
turn of the twentieth century. At this time, marriage helped
to set the terrain for debate and marked specific concerns
about nationalism and belonging. From Cherokee laws on wedding
licenses to the inquiries of the Dawes Commission, intermarriage
proved to be an issue with great import for the sovereignty
of the Cherokee Nation and its contact with American colonialism
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