Making Relatives of Them: Native Kinship, Politics, and Gender in the Great Lakes Country, 1790-1850 art theory and environmental harm and care

and environmental harm and care

" —Robin Wall Kimmerer

procession: a line of people moving in the same direction

this book can be read aloud

and from the beating heart of her unborn grandson to the vast

Making Relatives of Them: Native Kinship, Politics, and Gender in the Great Lakes Country, 1790-1850 art theory and environmental harm and careKinship, as an organizing principle, gives structure to communities and cultures and it can vary as widely as the social relationships organized in its name. Making Relatives of Them examines kinship among the Great Lakes Native nations in the eventful years of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, revealing how these Indigenous peoples' understanding of kinship, in complex relationship with concepts of gender, defined their social,