The Place of Stone Dighton Rock and the Erasure of America's Indigenous Past / Douglas Hunter.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Hunter, Doug, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Indians of North America--Government relations.
• Petroglyphs--Massachusetts--Dighton Rock--History.
• Dighton Rock (Mass.)--Historiography.

Genre:

• Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 pages) : illustrations, maps

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

Summary:

Claimed by many to be the most frequently documented artifact in American archeology, Dighton Rock is a forty-ton boulder covered in petroglyphs in southern Massachusetts. In this fascinating story rich in personalities and memorable characters, Douglas Hunter uses Dighton Rock to reveal the long, complex history of colonisation, American archaeology, and the conceptualisation of Indigenous people.

Contents:

• A lost Portuguese explorer's American boulder
• First impressions and first arrivals: colonists encounter Dighton Rock
• Altogether ignorant: denying an indigenous provenance and constructing gothicism
• Multiple migrations: esotericism, Beringia, and Native Americans as Tartar hordes
• Stones of power: Edward Augustus Kendall's esoteric case for Dighton Rock's indigeneity
• Colonization's new epistemology: American archaeology and the road to the Trail of Tears
• Vinland imagined: the Norsemen and the gothicists claim Dighton Rock
• Shingwauk's reading: Dighton Rock and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's troubled ethnology
• Reversing Dighton Rock's polarity: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the American Ethnological Society, and the Grave Creek Stone
• Meaningless scribblings: Edmund Burke Delabarre, lazy Indians, and the Corte-Real theory
• American place-making: Dighton Rock as a Portuguese relic
• The stone's place: Dighton Rock Museum and narratives of power.

Notes:

• Previously issued in print: 2017.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 979-88-908532-0-2
• 979-88-908532-1-9
• 1-4696-6873-4
• 1-4696-3441-4

OCLC:

999727686