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Writing Indian nations : native intellectuals and the politics of historiography, 1827-1863 /
In the early years of the republic, the US government negotiated with Indian nations. This work demonstrates that by depending on treaties, Europeans in North America institutionalized a paradox: the very documents by which they sought to dispossess Native peoples in fact conceded Native autonomy.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The theory of Indian difference and the practice of treaty-making
- Evading Indian autonomy
- Criticism and the political struggles of native peoples
- Recognition, history, playing Indian
- 1. The Cherokee resistance
- Everybody's Indians
- Civilization and misrepresentation
- Debating removal
- Time immemorial
- Sequoyah, the Cherokee antiquarians, and progress
- 2. William Apess, racial difference, and native history
- A real wild Indian
- Experiences
- Nullifying acts
- Denominated Indian
- Apess's effects
- 3. Traditionary history in Ojibwe writing
- Getting inside Indians' heads
- Ethnology and effacement
- Chaos, conversion, and progress
- William Warren's tribal knowledge
- Sentiment and performance
- 4. Reclaiming red jacket and the confederacy in Iroquois writing
- Learned pagans
- Contrary eloquence in red jacket and David Cusick
- Seneca historians in the wake of racial differentiation
- Repoliticizing red jacket
- Empire of the real.