Table of Contents:
  • The theory of Indian difference and the practice of treaty-making
  • Evading Indian autonomy
  • Criticism and the political struggles of native peoples
  • Recognition, history, playing Indian
  • 1. The Cherokee resistance
  • Everybody's Indians
  • Civilization and misrepresentation
  • Debating removal
  • Time immemorial
  • Sequoyah, the Cherokee antiquarians, and progress
  • 2. William Apess, racial difference, and native history
  • A real wild Indian
  • Experiences
  • Nullifying acts
  • Denominated Indian
  • Apess's effects
  • 3. Traditionary history in Ojibwe writing
  • Getting inside Indians' heads
  • Ethnology and effacement
  • Chaos, conversion, and progress
  • William Warren's tribal knowledge
  • Sentiment and performance
  • 4. Reclaiming red jacket and the confederacy in Iroquois writing
  • Learned pagans
  • Contrary eloquence in red jacket and David Cusick
  • Seneca historians in the wake of racial differentiation
  • Repoliticizing red jacket
  • Empire of the real.