Journal article
Native American Landholding in the Colonial Hudson Valley
American Indian culture and research journal, Vol.37(1), pp.79-104
01/01/2013
DOI: 10.17953/aicr.37.1.243w38p1x351u173
Abstract
Native American patterns of landownership among the Munsee- and Mahican-speaking peoples of the colonial Hudson Valley represented a set of practices that ranged from the communal landholding of larger political groups down to land held by individual families. At times these Indian groups treated their lands as cohesive homelands, and at other times they acted as if lands belonged to particular families. This article suggests that these practices sprang from a flexible political system where power was widely dispersed. Which pattern of landholding predominated at any given time depended on circumstances particular to each historical moment.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Native American Landholding in the Colonial Hudson Valley
- Creators
- Tom Midtrød - Northern Illinois University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- American Indian culture and research journal, Vol.37(1), pp.79-104
- DOI
- 10.17953/aicr.37.1.243w38p1x351u173
- ISSN
- 0161-6463
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2013
- Academic Unit
- History
- Record Identifier
- 9984277641902771
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