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Before American History: Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession

Before American History: Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession

Mucher, Christen

Paperback

Series: Writing the Early Americas

Native American HistoryRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)

ISBN10: 0813948258
ISBN13: 9780813948256
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: Nov 17 2022
Pages: 426
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Before American History juxtaposes Mexico City's famous carved Sun Stone with the mounded earthworks found throughout the Midwestern states of the U.S. to examine the project of settler nationalism from the 1780s to the 1840s in two North American republics usually studied separately. As the U.S. and Mexico transformed from European colonies into independent nations--and before war scarred them both--antiquarians and historians compiled and interpreted archives meant to document America's Indigenous pasts. These settler-colonial understandings of North America's past deliberately misappropriated Indigenous histories and repurposed them and their material objects as American antiquities, thereby writing Indigenous pasts out of U.S. and Mexican national histories and national lands and erasing and denigrating Native peoples living in both nascent republics.

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