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

Other author Bellin, Joshua David.
Other author Mielke, Laura L.
Format Book
Publication InfoLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2011.
Description333 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects
Indians of North America--Public opinion.
Indians in popular culture.
Indians of North America--History.
Indians in literature.
American literature--Indian authors.
American literature--White authors.
Public opinion--North America.

Contents Introduction / Laura L. Mielke -- Lying inventions: native dissimulation in early colonial New England / Matt Cohen -- The Deer Island Indians and common law performance / Nan Goodman -- Native performances of diplomacy and religion in early New France / John H. Pollack -- Wendat song and carnival noise in the Jesuit relations / Olivia Bloechl -- "I Wunnatuckquannum, this is my hand": native performance in Massachusett language Indian deeds / Stephanie Fitzgerald -- In a red petticoat: Coosaponakeesa's performance of Creek sovereignty in colonial Georgia / Caroline Wigginton -- Playing John White: John Wompas and racial identity in the seventeenth-century Atlantic world / Jenny Hale Pulsipher -- "This wretched scene of British curiosity and savage debauchery": performing Indian kingship in eighteenth-century Britain / Timothy J. Shannon -- Performing Indian publics: two native views of diplomacy to the western nations in 1792 / Phillip H. Round -- Editing as Indian performance: Elias Boudinot, poetry, and the Cherokee Phoenix / Theresa Strouth Gaul.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011027370
ISBN9780803226326 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0803226322 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks E98.P99 N377 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold