Legitimacies, Indian identities and the law: The politics of sex and the creation of history in colonial New England

Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples 1600-1850

Volumn , Issue , 2020, Pages 217-237

  Plane, Ann Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781003076711-11     Document Type: Chapter

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