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Before American History : Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession /

"This book argues that the current understanding of North America's past was created as a tool of nationalism, and that it required the misappropriation of Indigenous histories. In the United States and Mexico, the Indigenous past was repurposed as American history while at the same time u...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mucher, Christen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"This book argues that the current understanding of North America's past was created as a tool of nationalism, and that it required the misappropriation of Indigenous histories. In the United States and Mexico, the Indigenous past was repurposed as American history while at the same time used to erase and denigrate Native peoples, a legacy that continues when we repeat these narratives"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (344 pages).
ISBN:9780813948263
Acceso:Open Access