Native American Freemasonry: History, Traditions & Rituals in America | Explore Masonic Lodges & Cultural Practices" （如果原始标题有中文，请提供具体内容以便准确翻译优化） 注：由于原标题专业性较强，优化时保留了核心术语"Native American Freemasonry"，同时： 1. 添加了SEO关键词"History, Traditions, Rituals" 2. 使用管道符"|"分隔核心信息与场景延伸 3. 场景部分强调"Explore Masonic Lodges & Cultural Practices"以体现研究/文化体验场景

Freemasonry has played a significant role in the history of Native Americans since the colonial era—a role whose extent and meaning are fully explored for the first time in this book. The overarching concern of Native American Freemasonry is with how Masonry met specific social and personal needs of Native Americans, a theme developed across three periods: the revolutionary era, the last third of the nineteenth century, and the years following the First World War. Joy Porter positions Freemasonry within its historical context, examining its social and political impact as a transatlantic phenomenon at the heart of the colonizing process. She then explores its meaning for many key Native leaders, for ethnic groups that sought to make connections through it, and for the bulk of its American membership—the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant middle class. Through research gleaned from archives in New York, Philadelphia, Oklahoma, California, and London, Porter shows how Freemasonry’s performance of ritual provided an accessible point of entry to Native Americans and how over time, Freemasonry became a significant avenue for the exchange and co-creation of cultural forms by Indians and non-Indians.