Native acts: Indian performance, 1603-1832

by Bellin, Joshua David Mielke, Laura L.

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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 Native peoples themselves played in creating and enacting the Indian performances appropriated by European Americans. It is precisely this neglected notion of Native Americans "playing Indian" that Native Acts e…

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Full title :Native acts : Indian performance, 1603-1832 / edited by Joshua David Bellin and Laura L. Mielke ; afterword by Philip J. Deloria.

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Publication Date:©2011.

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Publisher(s):University of Nebraska Press
Place of Publication:Lincoln [Neb.]
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011.

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Description:1 ressource en ligne (333 p.)

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oclc:ocn871959886
LC Classification:E98.P99
Dewey Decimal:305.897009/03

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

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American literature -- Indian authors American literature -- White authors Amérique du Nord Écrivains indiens d'Amérique History Indians in literature Indians in popular culture Indians of North America Indians of North America -- History Indians of North America -- Public opin… Indiens d'Amérique Indiens d'Amérique dans la culture popu… Littérature américaine -- Auteurs blancs Littérature américaine -- Auteurs indie… Littérature indienne d'Amérique Littérature populaire indienne d'Amériq… Livres électroniques North America Opinion publique -- Amérique du Nord Public opinion