Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-355) and index.
The theory of Indian difference and the practice of treaty-making -- Evading Indian autonomy -- Criticism and the political struggles of native peoples -- Recognition, history, playing Indian -- 1. The Cherokee resistance -- Everybody's Indians -- Civilization and misrepresentation -- Debating removal -- Time immemorial -- Sequoyah, the Cherokee antiquarians, and progress -- 2. William Apess, racial difference, and native history -- A real wild Indian -- Experiences -- Nullifying acts -- Denominated Indian -- Apess's effects -- 3. Traditionary history in Ojibwe writing -- Getting inside Indians' heads -- Ethnology and effacement -- Chaos, conversion, and progress -- William Warren's tribal knowledge -- Sentiment and performance -- 4. Reclaiming red jacket and the confederacy in Iroquois writing -- Learned pagans -- Contrary eloquence in red jacket and David Cusick -- Seneca historians in the wake of racial differentiation -- Repoliticizing red jacket -- Empire of the real.
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In the early years of the republic, the US government negotiated with Indian nations. This work demonstrates that by depending on treaties, Europeans in North America institutionalized a paradox: the very documents by which they sought to dispossess Native peoples in fact conceded Native autonomy.
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Writing Indian nations.
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Indians of North America-- Government relations.
Indians of North America-- Historiography.
Indians of North America, Treaties-- Historiography.
Indiens d'Amérique-- Amérique du Nord-- Historiographie.
Indiens d'Amérique-- États-Unis-- Relations avec l'État.