Author: John Dunn HunterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian captivities
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North America, from Childhood to the Age of Nineteen
Author: John Dunn HunterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian captivities
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Memoirs of a captivity among the Indians of North America, from childhood to the age of nineteen ... A new edition, with portrait
Author: John Dunn HUNTERThe Western Captive and Other Indian Stories
Author: Elizabeth Oakes SmithPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770485503
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This edition recovers Elizabeth Oakes Smith’s successful 1842 novel The Western Captive; or, The Times of Tecumseh and includes many of Oakes Smith’s other writings about Native Americans, including short stories, legends, and autobiographical and biographical sketches. The Western Captive portrays the Shawnee leader as an American hero and the white heroine’s spiritual soulmate; in contrast to the later popular legend of Tecumseh’s rejected marriage proposal to a white woman, Margaret, the “captive” of the title, returns Tecumseh’s love and embraces life apart from white society. These texts are accompanied by selections from Oakes Smith’s Woman and Her Needs and her unpublished autobiography, from contemporary captivity narratives and biographies of William Henry Harrison depicting the Shawnee, and from writings by her colleagues Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft.
An Osage Journey to Europe, 1827–1830
Author: Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806151102
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
In 1827 six Osage people—four men and two women—traveled to Europe escorted by three Americans. Their visit was big news in France, where three short publications about the travelers appeared almost immediately. Virtually lost since the 1830s, all three accounts are gathered, translated, and annotated here for the first time in English. Among the earliest writings devoted to Osage history and culture, these works provide unique insights into Osage life and especially into European perceptions of American Indians. William Least Heat-Moon’s introduction poignantly tells of people leaving one alien nation, the United States, to visit an even more alien culture an ocean away. In France the Osages found themselves lionized as “noble savages.” They went to the theater, rode in a hot-air balloon, and even had an audience with the king of France. Many Europeans ogled them as if they were exhibits in a freak show. As the entourage moved through Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, interest in the Osages declined. Soon they were reduced to begging in the suburbs of Paris, without the means to return home. Translated by Heat-Moon and James K. Wallace, the three featured texts are surprisingly accurate as basic descriptions of Osage history, geography, and lifeways. The French authors, influenced by racist and sexist expectations, misinterpreted some of the behaviors they describe. But they also dismiss rumors of cannibalism among the Osages and observe that “the behavior of some whites . . . was not conducive to giving the Indians a favorable opinion of white morality.” An Osage Journey to Europe, 1827–1839 offers scholars and general readers both a compelling story and a singular glimpse into nineteenth-century cultural exchange.
The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal
Author: Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged
Author: Ralph GriffithsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths.
A Catalogue of Books
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Recollections of the Peninsula
Author: Early Western Travels, 1748-1846
Author: Reuben Gold ThwaitesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Inventing Destiny
Author: Jimmy L. Bryan, Jr.Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700628185
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The mythmakers of US expansion have expressed “manifest destiny” in many different ways—and so have its many discontents. A multidisciplinary study that delves into these contrasts and contradictions, Inventing Destiny offers a broad yet penetrating cultural history of nineteenth-century US territorial acquisition—a history that gives voice to the underrepresented actors who significantly complicated US narratives of empire, from Native Americans and Anglo-American women to anti- and non-national expansionists. The contributors—established and emerging scholars from history, American studies, literary studies, art history, and religious studies—make use of source materials and techniques as various as artwork, religion, geospatial analysis, interior colonialism, and storytelling alongside fresh readings of traditional historical texts. In doing so, they seek to illuminate the complexities rather than simplify, to transgress borders rather than redraw them, and to amplify the under-told stories rather than repeat the old ones. Their work identifies and explores the obscure—or obscured—fictions of expansion, seeking a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of culture creation and recognizing those who resisted US territorial aggrandizement. In sum, Inventing Destiny demonstrates the value of cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of the multiple rationales, critiques, interventions, and contingencies of nineteenth-century US expansion.