Native American speakers of the Eastern woodlands : selected speeches and critical analyses / edited by Barbara Alice Mann ; foreword by Ward Churchill.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mann, Barbara Alice, 1947-

Series:

Contributions to the study of mass media and communications 0732-4456 ; no. 60.

Contributions to the study of mass media and communications, 0732-4456 ; no. 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speeches, addresses, etc., Indian--United States.

Speeches, addresses, etc., Indian.

Oratory--United States--History and criticism.

Oratory.

United States.

Physical Description:

xvii, 282 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001.

Summary:

A collection of essays that examine, in context, eastern Native American speeches, which are translated and reprinted in their entirety.

Contents:

Foreword: Reclaiming the Native Voice: Reflections on the Historiography of American Indian Oratory / Ward Churchill vii

Chapter 1 "Now the Friar Is Dead": Sixteenth-Century Spanish Florida and the Guale Revolt / Barbara Alice Mann, Donald A. Grinde, Jr. 1

Chapter 2 "Are You Delusional?": Kandiaronk on Christianity / Barbara Alice Mann 35

Chapter 3 "By Your Observing the Methods Our Wise Forefathers Have Taken, You Will Acquire Fresh Strength and Power:" Closing Speech of Canassatego, July 4, 1744, Lancaster Treaty / Bruce E. Johansen 83

Chapter 4 "Then I Thought I Must Kill Too": Logan's Lament: A "Mingo" Perspective / Thomas McElwain 107

Chapter 5 "Woman Is the Mother of All": Nanye'hi and Kitteuha: War Women of the Cherokees / Virginia Carney 123

Chapter 6 "I Hope You Will Not Destroy What I Have Saved": Hopocan before the British Tribunal in Detroit, 1781 / Barbara Alice Mann 145

Chapter 7 "You Are a Cunning People without Sincerity": Sagoyewatha and the Trials of Community Representation / Granville Ganter 165

Chapter 8 "A Man of Misery": Chitto Harjo and the Senate Select Committee on Oklahoma Statehood / Barbara Alice Mann 197

Chapter 9 "The Land Was To Remain Ours": The St. Anne Island Treaty of 1796 and Aboriginal Title and Rights in the Twenty-first Century / David T. McNab 229.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-265) and index.

ISBN:

0313312575

OCLC:

44818284