X-marks [[electronic resource] ] : native signatures of assent / / Scott Richard Lyons
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| Autore: |
Lyons Scott Richard
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| Titolo: |
X-marks [[electronic resource] ] : native signatures of assent / / Scott Richard Lyons
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.897 |
| Soggetto topico: | Indians of North America - Ethnic identity |
| Indians of North America - Cultural assimilation | |
| Group identity - United States | |
| Self-determination, National - United States | |
| Identification (Psychology) | |
| Race awareness | |
| Liminality | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface; Introduction: Migrations/Removals; 1 Identity Crisis; 2 Culture and Its Cops; 3 Nations and Nationalism since 1492; 4 Resignations; Notes; Index; |
| Sommario/riassunto: | During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, North American Indian leaders commonly signed treaties with the European powers and the American and Canadian governments with an X, signifying their presence and assent to the terms. These x-marks indicated coercion (because the treaties were made under unfair conditions), resistance (because they were often met with protest), and acquiescence (to both a European modernity and the end of a particular moment of Indian history and identity). In X-Marks, Scott Richard Lyons explores the complexity of contemp |
| Titolo autorizzato: | X-marks |
| ISBN: | 1-4529-4685-X |
| 0-8166-7373-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815221103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
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Indigenous Americas.