Episodes in the rhetoric of government-Indian relations / Janice Schuetz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schuetz, Janice E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Government relations.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Politics and government.

Indians of North America--History--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Scholarly considerations of the relationship between the United States government and Native Americans have largely ignored the rhetoric utilized by both in the course of their ongoing conflicts. This fascinating new study concentrates on the persuasive and public strategies of both government and Indian leaders, focusing on the written and oral records of several key episodes in American history. This approach, which author Janice Schuetz calls rhetorical ancestry reveals the ways in which government and Indian spokespersons have constituted and defined issues; created, prolonged, and managed conflict; and silenced and empowered each other's voices. Chronicling the emergence of government and Indian leaders who were forced to deal with conflicts in new ways, each chapter makes use of historical evidence to draw inferences about the rhetorical features of the discourse and its effects. Both verbal and nonverbal rhetoric-including treaties, letters, oral histories, speeches, ritual performances, media reports, biographical narratives, protests and demonstrations, political hearings, and legal proceedings-are represented here, illuminating a legacy that evolved in the personal and political language of its participants.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Dramatistic Analysis and the Puget Sound War, 1854-1858

2. Rhetorical Genres and the Sioux Uprising, 1862

3. Political Spectacles and the Sand Creek Massacre, 1864-

1865

4. Colonial Discourse and the Navajo Internment, 1846-1868

5. Identity Transformation and the Journeys of Fanny Kelly

and Chief Red Cloud, 1864-1870

6. Rituals of Redress and Zuni Witch Cases, 1880-1900

7. Resistance, Advocacy, and the Southern Cheyenne and

Arapaho, 1868-1961

8. Legislative Movements and the Return of Blue Lake, 1922-

1970

9. Ethnography and Puget Sound Indian Fishing Rights, 1973-

1974

10. Lamentation and Agitation at Wounded Knee, 1890 and

1973

11. Idian Alcohol Abuse, Narrative Reasoning, and the

Gordon House Case, 1992-2000.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-301) and index.

ISBN:

9798400647116

9786610422906

9781280422904

1280422904

9780313012426

0313012423

OCLC:

52744223