Title Indian nation : Native American literature and nineteenth-century nationalisms / Cheryl Walker

Published Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 256 pages) : illustrations Series New Americanists New Americanists Contents The subject of America: the outsider inside -- Writing Indians -- The irony and mimicry of William Apess -- Black Hawk and the moral force of transposition -- The terms of George Copway's surrender -- John Rollin Ridge and the law -- Sarah Winnemucca's meditations: gender, race, and nation -- Personifying America: Apess's "Eulogy on King Philip" -- Native American literature and nineteenth-century nationalisms -- Appendix: "The red man's rebuke." Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-247) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism Literature and anthropology -- United States -- History -- 19th century Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Indians of North America -- Historiography. National characteristics, American, in literature. Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century Indians of North America -- Intellectual life Ethnic relations in literature. Nationalism in literature. Indians in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature American literature -- Indian authors Civilization -- Indian influences Ethnic relations in literature Indians in literature Indians of North America -- Historiography Indians of North America -- Intellectual life Literature and anthropology Literature and society National characteristics, American, in literature Nationalism Nationalism in literature Politische Identität Literatur Nationalbewusstsein United States -- Civilization -- Indian influences. United States Nordamerika Indianer <Motiv> Indianer. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822397007 0822397005

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