Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-299) and index.
Contents:
What's in a nation? Cherokee vanguardism in Elias Boudinot's letters -- Experiments in signifying sovereignty : exemplarity and the politics of southern New England in William Apess -- Among ghost dances : Sarah Winnemucca and the production of Paiute identity -- The Native informant speaks : the politics of ethnographic subjectivity in ZitkalaSĖa's autobiographical stories -- Coda. On refusing the ethnographic imaginary, or reading for the politics of peoplehood.
Summary:
"Speaking for the People argues that turning to nineteenth-century Native writings can provide valuable lessons for thinking about contemporary questions of Indigenous recognition, refusal, and resurgence. These texts illustrate the intellectual labor involved in trying to represent Native peoples to non-native publics, and in doing so, they point toward the difficulties involved in negotiating the character, contours, and circumstances of Indigenous governance under ongoing colonial occupation"-- Provided by publisher.
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