Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827-1863

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 2004 - 367 páginas
In the early years of the republic, the United States government negotiated with Indian nations because it could not afford protracted wars politically, militarily, or economically. Maureen Konkle argues that by depending on treaties, which rest on the eq
 

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The Cherokee Resistance Everybodys Indians
42
Civilization and Misrepresentation
49
Debating Removal
61
Time Immermorial
71
Sequoyah the Cherokee Antiquarians and Progress
78
William Apess Racial Difference and Native History A Real Wild Indian
97
Experiences
106
Nullifying Acts
119
William Warrens Tribal Knowledge
197
Sentiment and Performance
205
Reclaiming Red Jacket and the Confederacy in Iroquois Writing Learned Pagans
224
Contrary Eloquence in Red Jacket and David Cusick
232
Seneca Historians in the Wake of Racial Differentiation
250
Repoliticizing Red jacket
265
Empire of the Real
274
Conclusion
288

Denominated Indian
131
Apesss Effects
146
Traditionary History in Ojibwe Writing Getting Inside Indians Heads
160
Ethnology and Effacement
166
Chaos Conversion and Progress
181
Notes
295
Bibliogrpahy
329
Acknowledgments
357
Index
359
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Página 19 - However this restriction may be opposed to natural right, and to the usages of civilized nations, yet, if it be indispensable to that system under which the country has been settled, and be adapted to the actual condition of the two people, it may, perhaps, be supported by reason, and certainly cannot be rejected by courts of justice.
Página 14 - The Indians being the prior occupants, possess the right of the soil. It cannot be taken from them unless by their free consent, or by the right of conquest in case of a just war. To dispossess them on any other principle, would be a gross violation of the fundamental laws of nature, and of that distributive justice which is the glory of a nation.
Página 22 - The extravagant and absurd idea, that the feeble settlements made on the sea coast, or the companies under whom they were made, acquired legitimate power by them to govern the people, or occupy the lands from sea to sea, did not enter the mind of any man.
Página 19 - However extravagant the pretension of converting the discovery of an inhabited country into conquest may appear; if the principle has been asserted in the first instance, and afterwards sustained; if a country has been acquired and held under it; if the property of the great mass of the community orginates in it, it becomes the law of the land, and cannot be questioned.
Página 23 - The king purchased their lands when they were willing to sell, at a price they were willing to take; but never coerced a surrender of them.
Página 1 - Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings.
Página 24 - If courts were permitted to indulge their sympathies, a case better calculated to excite them can scarcely be imagined. A people once numerous, powerful, and truly independent, found by our ancestors in the quiet and uncontrolled possession of an ample domain, gradually sinking beneath our superior policy, our arts and our arms, have yielded their lands by successive treaties, each of which contains a solemn guarantee of the residue, until they retain no more of their formerly extensive territory...

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Maureen Konkle is associate professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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