X-marks native signatures of assent
- Author/Creator:
- Lyons, Scott Richard
- Publication/Creation:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010
- Resource Type:
- Book
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Additional/Related Title Information
- Full Title:
- X-marks native signatures of assent / Scott Richard Lyons
- Series Titles:
- Indigenous Americas
Indigenous Americas.
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Indigenous peoples of North America--Ethnic identity
Indigenous peoples of North America--Cultural assimilation
Group identity--United States
Self-determination, National--United States
Identification (Psychology)
Race awareness
Liminality
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Introduction: Migrations/Removals; 1 Identity Crisis; 2 Culture and Its Cops; 3 Nations and Nationalism since 1492; 4 Resignations; Notes; Index;
- Summary:
- During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, North American Indian leaders commonly signed treaties with the European powers and the American and Canadian governments with an X, signifying their presence and assent to the terms. These x-marks indicated coercion (because the treaties were made under unfair conditions), resistance (because they were often met with protest), and acquiescence (to both a European modernity and the end of a particular moment of Indian history and identity). In X-Marks, Scott Richard Lyons explores the complexity of contemp
- Language:
- English
- Language Note:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- General Note:
- Description based upon print version of record.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936715323302486
- ISBN:
- 1-4529-4685-X
0-8166-7373-X - OCLC Number:
- 646816207
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