Book chapter
Performing Indian Publics: Two Native Views of Diplomacy to the Western Nations in 1792
Native Acts, pp.249-280
UNP - Nebraska Paperback
01/01/2012
Abstract
Native peoples in the Americas have been engaged in diplomatic exchanges with Europeans since contact. In early America indigenous diplomats presented their political positions with a highly elaborated sense of the “public” with whom they were communicating, whether using their own or European languages. Europeans, meanwhile, from the beginning of intercultural diplomacy in the New World, made a concerted effort to portray Native understanding of the emerging colonial public sphere as naïve, inferior, and Other. Columbus famously reported that he used Native captives to proclaim to indigenous peoples “in a loud voice ‘Come, come, and you will see the celestial
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Performing Indian Publics: Two Native Views of Diplomacy to the Western Nations in 1792
- Creators
- Phillip H. Round
- Contributors
- Joshua David Bellin (Editor)Laura L. Mielke (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Native Acts, pp.249-280
- Publisher
- UNP - Nebraska Paperback
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2012
- Academic Unit
- English
- Record Identifier
- 9984397925702771
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