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Native Acts Indian Performance, 1603–1832 Edited by Joshua David Bellin and Laura L. Mielke Afterword by Philip J. Deloria University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London © 2011 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Native acts: Indian performance, 1603–1832 / edited by Joshua David Bellin and Laura L. Mielke; afterword by Philip J. Deloria. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8032-2632-6 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Indians of North America—Public opinion. 2. Indians in popular culture. 3. Indians of North America—History. 4. Indians in litera- ture. 5. American literature—Indian authors. 6. American literature—White authors. 7. Pub- lic opinion—North America. I. Bellin, Joshua David. II. Mielke, Laura L. e98.p99n377 2011 305.897009'03—dc23 2011027370 Set in Sabon. Designed by Mikah Tacha. To Roger D. Abrahams Contents Introduction [1] Laura L. Mielke 1. Lying Inventions: Native Dissimulation in Early Colonial New England [27] Matt Cohen 2. The Deer Island Indians and Common Law Performance [53] Nan Goodman 3. Native Performances of Diplomacy and Religion in Early New France [81] John H. Pollack 4. Wendat Song and Carnival Noise in the Jesuit Relations [117] Olivia Bloechl 5. “ I Wunnatuckquannum, This Is My Hand”: Native Performance in Massachusett Language Indian Deeds [145] Stephanie Fitzgerald 6. In a Red Petticoat: Coosaponakeesa’s Performance of Creek Sovereignty in Colonial Georgia [169] Caroline Wigginton 7. Playing John White: John Wompas and Racial Identity in the Seventeenth- Century Atlantic World [195] Jenny Hale Pulsipher 8. “ This Wretched Scene of British Curiosity and Savage Debauchery”: Performing Indian King- ship in Eighteenth-Century Britain [221] Timothy J. Shannon 9. Performing Indian Publics: Two Native Views of Diplomacy to the Western Nations in 1792 [249] Phillip H. Round 10. Editing as Indian Performance: Elias Boudinot, Poetry, and the Cherokee Phoenix [281] Theresa Strouth Gaul Afterword [309] Philip J. Deloria Contributors [317] Index [321] Native Acts
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