The Insistence of the Indian : : Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Culture /

The Insistence of the Indian : : Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Culture / / Susan Scheckel.

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Americans' first attempts to forge a national identity coincided with the apparent need to define--and limit--the status and rights of Native Americans. During these early decades of the nineteenth century, the image of the "Indian" circulated throughout popular culture--in the novels...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Scheckel, Susan,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1998]
©1999
Year of Publication:1998
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (184 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ONE. The "Indian Problem" and the Question of National Identity
  • TWO. Cooper and the Sources of American National Identity
  • THREE. Domesticating the Drama of Conquest: Pocahontas on the Popular Stage
  • FOUR. Mary Jemison and the Domestication of the American Indians
  • FIVE. Black Hawk's Life: The Indian as Subject of History
  • SIX. A Guide to Remembrance: The Capitol Tour and the Construction of a U.S. Citizenry
  • NOTES
  • WORKS CITED
  • INDEX

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