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Authorized agents : publication and diplomacy in the era of Indian removal /

"In nineteenth-century North America, the literature of Indian nations extended a long tradition of diplomacy between Indigenous people and settler states. While the crisis of removal profoundly reshaped Indian country between 1820 and 1860, Indigenous intellectuals and tribal leaders often wor...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kelderman, Frank, 1984- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019]
Series:Native traces.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Indian removal and the projects of Native American writing
  • Negotiating empire in the Benjamin O'Fallon delegation
  • Frontier diplomacy and removal in Sauk writing and oratory
  • Peter Pitchlynn and the literature of Choctaw nation-building
  • Community and authority in Ojibwe letters
  • Afterword: The Indians in the lobby.