LEADER 02910nam 2200409 450 001 9910583589503321 005 20221224234420.0 010 $a0-8139-4826-6 035 $a(CKB)5860000000058612 035 $a(NjHacI)995860000000058612 035 $a(EXLCZ)995860000000058612 100 $a20221224d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBefore American History $eNationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession /$fChristen Mucher 210 1$aCharlottesville :$cUniversity of Virginia Press,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (344 pages). $cillustrations 225 1 $aWriting the early Americas 311 $a0-8139-4824-X 330 $aBefore American History juxtaposes Mexico City's famous carved Sun Stone with the mounded earthworks found throughout the Midwestern states of the U.S. to examine the project of settler nationalism from the 1780s to the 1840s in two North American republics usually studied separately. As the U.S. and Mexico transformed from European colonies into independent nations-and before war scarred them both-antiquarians and historians compiled and interpreted archives meant to document America's Indigenous pasts. These settler-colonial understandings of North America's past deliberately misappropriated Indigenous histories and repurposed them and their material objects as "American antiquities," thereby writing Indigenous pasts out of U.S. and Mexican national histories and national lands and erasing and denigrating Native peoples living in both nascent republics.Christen Mucher creatively recovers the Sun Stone and mounded earthworks as archives of nationalist power and Indigenous dispossession as well as objects that are, at their material base, produced by Indigenous people but settler controlled and settler interpreted. Her approach renders visible the foundational methodologies, materials, and mythologies that created an American history out of and on top of Indigenous worlds and facilitated Native dispossession continent-wide. By writing Indigenous actors out of national histories, Mexican and U.S. elites also wrote them out of their lands, a legacy of erasure and removal that continues when we repeat these eighteenth- and nineteenth-century settler narratives and that reverberates in discussions of immigration, migration, and Nativism today. 410 0$aWriting the early Americas. 517 $aBefore American History 606 $aIndians of North America 606 $aIndigenous peoples 615 0$aIndians of North America. 615 0$aIndigenous peoples. 676 $a970.0 700 $aMucher$b Christen$01271731 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910583589503321 996 $aBefore American History$92995813 997 $aUNINA