Before American History : Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession / Christen Mucher.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Writing the early Americas | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2022]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022Copyright date: ©[2022]Description: 1 online resource (344 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813948263
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Contents:
Ofering the "Indian" archive -- Storied lands of the "Old West" -- Mexico antiguo through americano eyes -- Nationalist science and the chronology of disposession -- Removal in the antiquarian archive -- An American Babylon in the Mexican Republic -- Epilogue: after American history.
Summary: "This book argues that the current understanding of North America's past was created as a tool of nationalism, and that it required the misappropriation of Indigenous histories. In the United States and Mexico, the Indigenous past was repurposed as American history while at the same time used to erase and denigrate Native peoples, a legacy that continues when we repeat these narratives"-- Provided by publisher.
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Ofering the "Indian" archive -- Storied lands of the "Old West" -- Mexico antiguo through americano eyes -- Nationalist science and the chronology of disposession -- Removal in the antiquarian archive -- An American Babylon in the Mexican Republic -- Epilogue: after American history.

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"This book argues that the current understanding of North America's past was created as a tool of nationalism, and that it required the misappropriation of Indigenous histories. In the United States and Mexico, the Indigenous past was repurposed as American history while at the same time used to erase and denigrate Native peoples, a legacy that continues when we repeat these narratives"-- Provided by publisher.

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