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Native acts : Indian performance, 1603-1832 /

Long before the Boston Tea Party, where colonists staged a revolutionary act by masquerading as Indians, people looked to Native Americans for the symbols, imagery, and acts that showed what it meant to be "American." And for just as long, observers have largely overlooked the role that Na...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bellin, Joshua David (Editor ), Mielke, Laura L. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln [Neb.] : University of Nebraska Press, ©2011.
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1. Lying Inventions: Native Dissimulation in Early Colonial New England; 2. The Deer Island Indians and Common Law Performance; 3. Native Performances of Diplomacy and Religionin Early New France; 4. Wendat Song and Carnival Noise in the Jesuit Relations; 5. "I Wunnatuckquannum, This Is My Hand": Native Performance in Massachusett Language Indian Deeds; 6. In a Red Petticoat: Coosaponakeesa's Performance of Creek Sovereignty in Colonial Georgia.
  • Playing John White: John Wompas and Racial Identity in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World8. "This Wretched Scene ofBritish Curiosity and Savage Debauchery": Performing Indian Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Britain; 9. Performing Indian Publics: Two Native Views of Diplomacy to the Western Nations in 1792; 10. Editing as Indian Performance: Elias Boudinot, Poetry, and the Cherokee Phoenix; Afterword; Index.