Examines marriages between white women and indigenous men in Australia and the United States between 1887 and 1937. This study uncovers striking differences bet

"A study of the role blood quantum played in the assimilation period between 1887 and 1934 in the United States"--

From whalers and traders marrying into Maori families in the early 19th century to the growth of interracial marriages in the later 20th, Matters of the Heart u

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, indigenous communities in the United States and Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of sta

The border between the United States and Mexico, established in 1853, passes through the territory of the Tohono O'odham peoples. This revealing book sheds ligh