The common pot : the recovery of native space in the Northeast / Lisa Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooks, Lisa Tanya, author.

Series:

Indigenous Americas.

Indigenous Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geographical perception--North America.

Geographical perception.

Indian philosophy.

Indians of North America--Psychology.

Indians of North America.

Sacred space--North America.

Sacred space.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (410 pages)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Literary critics frequently portray early Native American writers either as individuals caught between two worlds or as subjects who, even as they defied the colonial world, struggled to exist within it. In striking counterpoint to these analyses, Lisa Brooks demonstrates the ways in which Native leaders-including Samson Occom, Joseph Brant, Hendrick Aupaumut, and William Apess-adopted writing as a tool to reclaim rights and land in the Native networks of what is now the northeastern United States. "The Common Pot," a metaphor that appears in Native writings during the eighteenth and nineteenth

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Maps; Introduction: A Map to the Common Pot; 1. Alnôbawôgan, Wlôgan, Awikhigan: Entering Native Space; 2. Restoring a Dish Turned Upside Down: Samson Occom, the Mohegan Land Case, and the Writing of Communal Remembrance; 3. Two Paths to Peace: Competing Visions of the Common Pot; 4. Regenerating the Village Dish: William Apess and the Mashpee Woodland Revolt; 5. Envisioning New England as Native Space; 6. Awikhigawôgan: Mapping the Genres of Indigenous Writing in the Network of Relations

7. Concluding Thoughts from Wabanaki Space: Literacy and the Oral TraditionNotes; Index

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Cornell University, 2004).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-319) and index.

ISBN:

9780816666294

0816666296

OCLC:

318218600