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1 online resource (xlvi, 346 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
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Indigenous Americas |
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Indigenous Americas.
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Alnôbawôgan, Wlôgan, Awikhigan: entering native space -- Restoring a dish turned upside down: Samson Occom, the Mohegan land case, and the writing of communal remembrance -- Two paths to peace: competing visions of the common pot -- Regenerating the village dish: William Apess and the Mashpee woodland revolt -- Envisioning New England as native space: William Apess's Eulogy on King Philip -- Awikhigawôgan: mapping the genres of indigenous writing in the network of relations -- Concluding thoughts from Wabanaki space: literacy and the oral tradition |
| Summary |
Literary critics frequently portray early Native American writers either as individuals caught between two worlds or as subjects who, even as they defied the colonial world, struggled to exist within it. In striking counterpoint to these analyses, Lisa Brooks demonstrates the ways in which Native leaders--including Samson Occom, Joseph Brant, Hendrick Aupaumut, and William Apess--adopted writing as a tool to reclaim rights and land in the Native networks of what is now the northeastern United States. "The Common Pot," a metaphor that appears in Native writings during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, embodies land, community, and the shared space of sustenance among relations. Far from being corrupted by forms of writing introduced by European colonizers, Brooks contends, Native people frequently rejected the roles intended for them by their missionary teachers and used the skills they acquired to compose petitions, political tracts, and speeches; to record community councils and histories; and most important, to imagine collectively the routes through which the Common Pot could survive. Reframing the historical landscape of the region, Brooks constructs a provocative new picture of Native space before and after colonization. By recovering and reexamining Algonquian and Iroquoian texts, she shows that writing was not a foreign technology but rather a crucial weapon in the Native Americans' arsenal as they resisted--and today continue to oppose--colonial domination. provider's description |
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Cornell University, 2004) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-319) and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Indians of North America -- Psychology.
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Indian philosophy.
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Sacred space -- North America
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Sacred space -- Northeastern States
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Geographical perception -- North America
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Geographical perception -- Northeastern States
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American literature -- Indian authors -- History
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HISTORY -- Native American.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
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American literature -- Indian authors.
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Geographical perception.
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Indian philosophy.
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Indians of North America -- Psychology.
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Sacred space.
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Northeastern States -- History
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North America.
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Northeastern States.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816666294 |
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0816666296 |
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