American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment

by Jason Edward Black

Book Overview

Jason Edward Black examines the ways the US government's rhetoric and American Indian responses contributed to the policies of Native-US relations throughout the nineteenth century's removal and allotment eras. Black shows how these discourses together constructed the perception of the US government and of American Indian communities. Such interactions--though certainly not equal--illustrated the hybrid nature of Native-US rhetoric in the nineteenth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628461969
• ISBN13: 9781628461961
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"