Indian nation : Native American literature and nineteenth-century nationalisms

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Label

Indian nation : Native American literature and nineteenth-century nationalisms

Title remainder

Native American literature and nineteenth-century nationalisms

Statement of responsibility

Cheryl Walker

Creator

• Walker, Cheryl, 1947-

Subject

• American literature -- Indian authors | History and criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Ethnic relations in literature
• History
• Indians in literature
• Indians of North America -- Historiography
• Indians of North America -- Intellectual life
• Literature and anthropology -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• National characteristics, American, in literature
• Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Nationalism in literature
• United States -- Civilization | Indian influences
• American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

• Walker examines the rhetoric and writings of nineteenth-century Native Americans, including William Apess, Black Hawk, George Copway, John Rollin Ridge, and Sarah Winnemucca. Demonstrating with unique detail how these authors worked to transform venerable myths and icons of American identity, Indian Nation chronicles Native American participation in the forming of an American nationalism in both published texts and speeches that were delivered throughout the United States. Pottawattomie Chief Simon Pokagon's "The Red Man's Rebuke," an important document of Indian oratory, is published here in its entirety for the first time since 1893
• Indian Nation documents the contributions of Native Americans to the notion of American nationhood and to concepts of American identity at a crucial, defining time in U.S. history. Departing from previous scholarship, Cheryl Walker turns the "usual" questions on their heads, asking not how whites experienced indigenous peoples, but how Native Americans envisioned the United States as a nation. This project unfolds a narrative of participatory resistance in which Indians themselves sought to transform the discourse of nationhood

Member of

• New Americanists

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

810.9/897

Illustrations

portraits

Index

index present

LC call number

PS153.I52

LC item number

W35 1997

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

New Americanists