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"Native Americans along the coasts of southern New England and Long Island have had close ties to whales for thousands of years. They made a living from the sea and saw in the world's largest beings special power and meaning. After English settlement in the early seventeenth century, the region's natural bounty of these creatures drew Natives and colonists alike to develop whale hunting on an industrial scale. By the nineteenth century, New England dominated the world in whaling, and Native Americans contributed substantially to whaleship crews. In Living with Whales, Nancy Shoemaker reconstructs the history of Native whaling in New England through a diversity of primary documents: explorers' descriptions of their "first encounters," indentures, deeds, merchants' accounts, Indian overseer reports, crew lists, memoirs, obituaries, and excerpts from journals kept by Native whalemen on their voyages. These materials span the centuries-long rise and fall of the American whalefishery and give insight into the far-reaching impact of whaling on Native North American communities. One chapter even follows a Pequot Native to New Zealand, where many of his Maori descendants still reside today. Whaling has left behind a legacy of ambivalent emotions. In oral histories included in this volume, descendants of Wampanoag and Shinnecock whalemen reflect on how whales, whaling, and the ocean were vital to the survival of coastal Native communities in the Northeast, but at great cost to human life, family life, whales, and the ocean environment."--Publisher's description.

Indians of North America --- Whaling --- Commercial whaling --- Hunting, Whale --- Whale fisheries --- Whale hunting --- Fisheries --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Fishing --- History. --- Social aspects --- Culture --- Ethnology

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Full of colorful details and engrossing stories, Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles shows that the aspirations of individual Americans to be recognized as people worthy of others' respect was a driving force in the global extension of United States influence shortly after the nation's founding.Nancy Shoemaker contends that what she calls extraterritorial Americans constituted the vanguard of a vast, early US global expansion. Using as her site of historical investigation nineteenth-century Fiji, the "cannibal isles" of American popular culture, she uncovers stories of Americans looking for opportunities to rise in social status and enhance their sense of self. Prior to British colonization in 1874, extraterritorial Americans had, she argues, as much impact on Fiji as did the British. While the American economy invested in the extraction of sandalwood and sea slugs as resources to sell in China, individuals who went to Fiji had more complicated, personal objectives.Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles considers these motivations through the lives of the three Americans who left the deepest imprint on Fiji: a runaway whaleman who settled in the islands, a sea captain's wife, and a merchant. Shoemaker's book shows how ordinary Americans living or working overseas found unusual venues where they could show themselves worthy of others' respect-others' approval, admiration, or deference.

Americans --- Visitors, Foreign --- Public opinion --- Foreign visitors --- Foreigners --- Foreigners, Visiting --- International visitors --- Visiting foreigners --- Travelers --- Exchange of persons programs --- Yankees --- Ethnology --- Travel --- History --- Attitudes. --- Whippey, David. --- Wallis, Mary --- Williams, John B. --- Wallis, Mary Davis Cook, --- Lady --- Fiji --- United States --- Fig'i --- Iye Fig'i --- Feejee --- Feejee Islands --- Fiji Islands --- Fei-chi kuo --- Fei-chi --- Fei-chi chʻün tao --- Fidschi --- Republic of Fiji --- Republic of the Fiji Islands --- Fijian Republic --- Matanitu ko Viti --- Matanitu Tu-Vaka-i-koya ko Viti --- Fijī Ripablik --- Fidji --- Fichi --- Republica d'as Islas Fichi --- Ficgiege --- Fixi --- República de les Islles Fixi --- Fici adaları --- Фіджы --- Fidz︠h︡y --- Fidži --- Republika Fidži ostrva --- Фиджи --- Fidzhi --- Република Фиджи --- Republika Fidzhi --- Fidžijská republika --- Gweriniaeth Ynysoedd Fiji --- Republik Fidschi-Inseln --- Fííjii --- Fidži Vabariik --- Φίτζι --- Phitzi --- Δημοκρατία των Νησιών Φίτζι --- Dēmokratia tōn Nēsiōn Phitzi --- Fiyi --- República de las Islas Fiyi --- Fiĝioj --- Fiji uharteetako Errepublika --- République des îles Fidji --- Fidzjy --- Fidsí --- Poblacht Oileán Fhidsí --- Pobblaght Ellanyn Fiji --- Fìdi --- Fidxi --- República das Illas Fidxi --- 피지 --- Pʻiji --- Republika Fidžijskoga Otočja --- Republica dagiti Isla ti Fiji --- Republik Kepulauan Fiji --- Fídjieyjar --- Fijieyjar --- Lýðveldið Fídjieyjar --- פיג׳י --- Jamhuri ya Visiwa vya Fiji --- Viti --- Insulae Vitienses --- Insulae Fisienses --- Res Publica Insularum Vitiensium --- Fidži Salu Republika --- Fidžis --- Fidžio Salų Respublika --- Fidzsi-szigetek --- Фиџи --- Република Фиџиски Острови --- Republika Fidžiski Ostrovi --- Tlācatlahtohcāyōtl in Tlālhuāctli Fiyi --- Bidji --- Republiek Fiji-eilanden --- フィジー --- Republikken Fijiøyene --- Republikken Fijiøyane --- Fiji Orollar Respublikasi --- Republika Wysp Fidżi --- Fidźi Dwip-samuh Ganaradźja --- República de Fiji --- República de Fidji --- República das Ilhas Fiji --- Republica Insulelor Fiji --- Phiyi --- Phiyi Wat'akuna Republika --- Witi --- Республика Островов Фиджи --- Respublika Ostrovov Fidzhi --- Fiži --- Fiti --- Fidyïi --- Ködörösêse tî mbênî Fidyïi Zûa --- Fixhi --- Republika e Ishujve Fixhi --- Figgi --- Republika Fidžijských ostrovov --- Republika Fidžijski otoki --- Republika Wyspůw Fidżi --- Република Фиџи Острва --- Fidžisaarten tasavalta --- Republiken Fijiöarna --- Fidzji --- Pidyi --- Republika ng mga Pulo ng Pidyi --- Republika ng Kapuluan ng Pidyi --- Fisi --- Fiji Adaları Cumhuriyeti --- Фіджі --- Республіка Фіджі --- Respublika Fidz︠h︡i --- Cộng hòa Quần đảo Fiji --- Ficiyuäns --- Fijii --- Republik bu iil yu Fiiji --- Fici --- Fėdžis --- Fėdžė Salū Respoblėka --- 斐济 --- Feiji --- Foreign public opinion, American --- Social life and customs --- Description and travel. --- Extraterritorial, Respect, Salem, Maritime, Oceania, Trade. --- Colony of Fiji

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"More than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting place between humans and whales. From Indigenous Pacific peoples who built lives and cosmologies around whales, to Euro-American whalers who descended upon the Pacific during the nineteenth century, and to the new forms of human-cetacean partnerships that have emerged from the late twentieth century, the relationship between these two species has been central to the ocean's history. Across Species and Cultures: Whales, Humans, and Pacific Worlds offers for the first time a critical, wide-ranging geographical and temporal look at the varieties of whale histories in the Pacific. The essay contributors, hailing from around the Pacific, present a wealth of fascinating stories while breaking new methodological ground in environmental history, women's history, animal studies, and Indigenous ontologies. In the process they reveal previously hidden aspects of the story of Pacific whaling, including the contributions of Indigenous people to capitalist whaling, the industry's exceptionally far-reaching spread, and its overlooked second life as a global, industrial slaughter in the twentieth century. While pointing to striking continuities in whaling histories around the Pacific, Across Species and Cultures also reveals deep tensions: between environmentalists and Indigenous peoples, between ideas and realities, and between the North and South Pacific. The book delves in unprecedented ways into the lives and histories of whales themselves. Despite the worst ravages of commercial and industrial whaling, whales survived two centuries of mass killing in the Pacific. Their perseverance continues to nourish many human communities around and in the Pacific Ocean where they are hunted as commodities, regarded as signs of wealth and power, act as providers and protectors, but are also ancestors, providing a bridge between human and nonhuman worlds"-- Provided by publisher.

Human-animal relationships. --- Animal-human relationships --- Animal-man relationships --- Animals and humans --- Human beings and animals --- Man-animal relationships --- Relationships, Human-animal --- Animals --- Aquaculture --- Technology & engineering