Native Acts: Indian Performance, 1603-1832

343 Pages·2012·1.19 MB·English

by  Joshua David Bellin, Laura L. Mielke, Philip J. Deloria

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
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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