Indian Nation: Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms

by Cheryl Walker

Book Overview

Indian Nation documents the contributions of Native Americans to the notion of American nationhood and to concepts of American identity at a crucial, defining time in U.S. history. Departing from previous scholarship, Cheryl Walker turns the "usual" questions on their heads, asking not how whites experienced indigenous peoples, but how Native Americans envisioned the United States as a nation. This project unfolds a narrative of participatory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822319446
• ISBN13: 9780822319443
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"