LEADER 03883nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910463516903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-49781-5 010 $a9786613593047 010 $a0-8032-3989-0 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046328 035 $a(EBL)915041 035 $a(OCoLC)793511407 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000601410 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11409537 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000601410 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10565984 035 $a(PQKB)10735705 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC915041 035 $a(OCoLC)797825938 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3746 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL915041 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10559325 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL359304 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046328 100 $a20110630d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aNative acts$b[electronic resource] $eIndian performance, 1603-1832 /$fedited by Joshua David Bellin and Laura L. Mielke ; afterword by Philip J. Deloria 210 $aLincoln [Neb.] $cUniversity of Nebraska Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (344 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8032-2632-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 Georgia 327 $aPlaying 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; Index 330 $aLong 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 f 606 $aIndians of North America$xPublic opinion 606 $aIndians in popular culture 606 $aIndians of North America$xHistory 606 $aIndians in literature 606 $aAmerican literature$xIndian authors 606 $aAmerican literature$xWhite authors 606 $aPublic opinion$zNorth America 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xPublic opinion. 615 0$aIndians in popular culture. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xHistory. 615 0$aIndians in literature. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xIndian authors. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xWhite authors. 615 0$aPublic opinion 676 $a305.897009/03 701 $aBellin$b Joshua David$0989054 701 $aMielke$b Laura L$0989055 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463516903321 996 $aNative acts$92261890 997 $aUNINA