The Insistence of the Indian : Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Culture.

Americans' first attempts to forge a national identity coincided with the apparent need to define--and limit--the status and rights of Native Americans. During these early decades of the nineteenth century, the image of the "Indian" circulated throughout popular culture--in the novels...

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Main Author: Scheckel, Susan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001
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