ISBN:
0816647844
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0816647836
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9780816647842
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9780816647835
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xlvi, 346 p)
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ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Indigenous Americas
Parallel Title:
Print version The Common Pot : The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast
DDC:
305.897074
Keywords:
Indian philosophy
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Sacred space
;
Geographical perception
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Indians of North America Psychology
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Geographical perception ; North America
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Indian philosophy
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Indians of North America ; Psychology
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Sacred space ; North America
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Electronic books
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Hochschulschrift
Abstract:
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 nineteent
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Maps; Introduction: A Map to the Common Pot; 1. Alnôbawôgan, Wlôgan, Awikhigan: Entering Native Space; 2. Restoring a Dish Turned Upside Down: Samson Occom, the Mohegan Land Case, and the Writing of Communal Remembrance; 3. Two Paths to Peace: Competing Visions of the Common Pot; 4. Regenerating the Village Dish: William Apess and the Mashpee Woodland Revolt; 5. Envisioning New England as Native Space; 6. Awikhigawôgan: Mapping the Genres of Indigenous Writing in the Network of Relations
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Concluding Thoughts from Wabanaki Space: Literacy and the Oral TraditionNotes; Index
Note:
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Cornell University, 2004)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-319) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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