Domestic subjects : gender, citizenship, and law in Native American literature / Beth H. Piatote.
Amid the decline of U.S. military campaigns against Native Americans in the late nineteenth century, assimilation policy arose as the new front in the Indian Wars, with its weapons the deployment of culture and law, and its locus the American Indian home and family. In this interdisciplinary work, t...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full text (Emerson users only) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2013.
|
| Series: | Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity.
|
| Subjects: |
| Summary: | Amid the decline of U.S. military campaigns against Native Americans in the late nineteenth century, assimilation policy arose as the new front in the Indian Wars, with its weapons the deployment of culture and law, and its locus the American Indian home and family. In this interdisciplinary work, the author tracks the double movement of literature and law in the contest over the aims of settler-national domestication and the defence of tribal-national culture, political rights, and territory. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 234 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300189094 0300189095 |