X-marks : native signatures of assent / Scott Richard Lyons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyons, Scott Richard.

Series:

Indigenous Americas.

Indigenous Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Ethnic identity.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation.

Group identity--United States.

Group identity.

Self-determination, National--United States.

Self-determination, National.

Identification (Psychology).

Race awareness.

Liminality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction: Migrations/Removals; 1 Identity Crisis; 2 Culture and Its Cops; 3 Nations and Nationalism since 1492; 4 Resignations; Notes; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4685-X

0-8166-7373-X

OCLC:

646816207