Abstract
This chapter shows how American whaling had more of an impact on local communities around the world through the slow creep of economic, social, and cultural exchanges. In these interactions, whalemen of all backgrounds still had interests that bound them to the ship and their shipmates. Although they would become connected to “natives” and “Indians” of other places through the process of cultural contact and exchange, their status as American sailors took precedence. The Native American whalemen were not identifying as or claiming to be white, but they defined themselves as American sailors when they traveled to foreign lands because the situation they were in delegated to others the role of native.
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