Before American history : : nationalist mythmaking and indigenous dispossession / / Christen Mucher.

• VerfasserIn: Mucher, Christen,
• Place / Publishing House: Charlottesville : : University of Virginia Press,, [2022]
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Writing the early Americas
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

"This book argues that the current understanding of North America's past was created as a tool of nationalism, and that it required the misappropriation of Indigenous histories. In the United States and Mexico, the Indigenous past was repurposed as American history while at the same time u...