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Indian Nation - Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms (Paperback, New)
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Indian Nation - Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms (Paperback, New)
Series: New Americanists
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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. 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. By looking at this writing
through the lens of the best theoretical work on nationality,
postcoloniality, and the subaltern, Walker creates a new and
encompassing picture of the relationship between Native Americans
and whites. She shows that, contrary to previous studies, America
in the nineteenth century was intercultural in significant ways.
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