title: Views of older Native American adults in colonial New England.
abstract: This study examines the perceptions and treatment of older Native American adults in colonial New England (1620-1783). Social scientists have found that varying degrees of persistence and change have historically characterized Indian attitudes toward older adults in communities located in the central and western United States. In regards to northeastern North America, historians have learned that, during the colonial period, older Europeans dealt with a variety of attitudes and experiences. This study examines how English colonists and Indians viewed and treated older Native American adults in part of northeastern North America. Available documents show that while indigenous persons valued and respected older adults before and throughout the colonial period, English colonists, particularly among the clergy, held more mixed views of older Native Americans, including notions that they were frail and stubborn.
authors.affiliation: History Department, Saint Cloud State University, 283 Stewart Hall, 720 4th Ave. South, Saint Cloud, MN, USA. jeeden@stcloudstate.edu
authors.forename: Jason
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Eden
authors.forename: Naomi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Eden
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000375:Aging / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D018595:Colonialism; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology*; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000523:psychology; D009511:New England; D044465:White People
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