03851nam 2200733 a 450 991078838670332120200520144314.01-280-49781-597866135930470-8032-3989-0(CKB)3170000000046328(EBL)915041(OCoLC)793511407(SSID)ssj0000601410(PQKBManifestationID)11409537(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000601410(PQKBWorkID)10565984(PQKB)10735705(OCoLC)797825938(MdBmJHUP)muse3746(Au-PeEL)EBL915041(CaPaEBR)ebr10559325(CaONFJC)MIL359304(MiAaPQ)EBC915041(EXLCZ)99317000000004632820110630d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNative acts[electronic resource] Indian performance, 1603-1832 /edited by Joshua David Bellin and Laura L. Mielke ; afterword by Philip J. DeloriaLincoln [Neb.] University of Nebraska Pressc20111 online resource (344 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8032-2632-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1. Lying Inventions: Native Dissimulation in Early Colonial New England; 2. The Deer Island Indians and Common Law Performance; 3. Native Performances of Diplomacy and Religionin Early New France; 4. Wendat Song and Carnival Noise in the Jesuit Relations; 5. "I Wunnatuckquannum,This Is My Hand": Native Performance in Massachusett Language Indian Deeds; 6. In a Red Petticoat: Coosaponakeesa's Performance of Creek Sovereignty in Colonial GeorgiaPlaying John White: John Wompas and Racial Identity in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World8. "This Wretched Scene ofBritish Curiosity and Savage Debauchery": Performing Indian Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Britain; 9. Performing Indian Publics: Two Native Views of Diplomacy to the Western Nations in 1792; 10. Editing as Indian Performance: Elias Boudinot, Poetry, and the Cherokee Phoenix; Afterword; IndexLong before the Boston Tea Party, where colonists staged a revolutionary act by masquerading as Indians, people looked to Native Americans for the symbols, imagery, and acts that showed what it meant to be "American." And for just as long, observers have largely overlooked the role that Native peoples themselves played in creating and enacting the Indian performances appropriated by European Americans. It is precisely this neglected notion of Native Americans "playing Indian" that Native Acts explores. These essays-by historians, literary critics, anthropologists, and folklorists-provide the fIndians of North AmericaPublic opinionIndians in popular cultureIndians of North AmericaHistoryIndians in literatureAmerican literatureIndian authorsAmerican literatureWhite authorsPublic opinionNorth AmericaIndians of North AmericaPublic opinion.Indians in popular culture.Indians of North AmericaHistory.Indians in literature.American literatureIndian authors.American literatureWhite authors.Public opinion305.897009/03Bellin Joshua David1567850Mielke Laura L1567851MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788386703321Native acts3839579UNINA