Indian Nation
Native American Literature and Nineteenth-century Nationalisms
Duke University Press · Print & ebook · April 30, 1997
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- Who it’s for
- Cheryl Walker examines how nineteenth-century Native writers reshaped ideas of American nationhood and identity.
- Themes
- Native American political thought, Nineteenth-century nationalism, Intercultural American identity
- Genres
- Native American Studies, Indigenous Lit Crit, Native American History
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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.
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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.
Native Nationhood
Cheryl Walker examines how nineteenth-century Native writers reshaped ideas of American nationhood and identity.
Come here for
- Published texts by nineteenth-century Native American writers
- Speeches examining American nationhood and identity
Expect
- An account of Native participation in forming American nationalism
- Simon Pokagon’s “The Red Man’s Rebuke,” published here in its entirety
Where it sits
| Native American Studies | 44% |
|---|---|
| Indigenous Lit Crit | 28% |
| Native American History | 25% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- American Lit Crit
- Native American Studies
- Authors
- Cheryl Walker
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Published
- April 30, 1997
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Native American political thought · Nineteenth-century nationalism · Intercultural American identity
- Reading lane
- American Lit Crit