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American Indians and the rhetoric of removal and allotment

Summary: "Jason Edward Black examines the ways the US government's rhetoric and American Indian responses contributed to the policies of Native-US relations throughout the nineteenth century's removal and allotment eras. Black shows how these discourses together constructed the perception of the US government and of American Indian communities. Such interactions--though certainly not equal--illustrated the hybrid nature of Native-US rhetoric in the nineteenth century. Both governmental, colonizing discourse and indigenous, decolonizing discourse shaped arguments, constructions of identity, and rhetoric in the colonial relationship. American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment demonstrates how American Indians decolonized dominant rhetoric through impeding removal and allotment policies. By turning around the US government's narrative and inventing their own tactics, American Indian communities helped restyle their own identities as well as the government's. During the first third of the twentieth century, American Indians lobbied for the successful passage of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 and the Indian New Deal of 1934, changing the relationship once again. In the end, Native communities were granted increased rhetorical power through decolonization, though the US government retained an undeniable colonial influence through its territorial management of Natives. The Indian Citizenship Act and the Indian New Deal--as the conclusion of this book indicates--are emblematic of the prevalence of the duality of US citizenship that fused American Indians to the nation, yet segregated them on reservations. This duality of inclusion and exclusion grew incrementally and persists now, as a lasting effect of nineteenth-century Native-US rhetorical relations"--

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  • ISBN: 1496809734
  • ISBN: 9781628461961
  • ISBN: 1628461969
  • ISBN: 9781626744851
  • Physical Description: print
    x, 214 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2015.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-209) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction: Colonization and Decolonization in the Native-US Relationship -- The Ties That Colonize : Rhetoric from Nationhood to Removal -- Governmental Colonizing Rhetoric During Indian Removal -- Native Decolonial Resistance to Removal -- Colonization and the Solidification of Identities in the General Allotment Act -- Pan-Indianism and Decolonial Challenges to Allotment -- Conclusion: Identity Duality and the Legacies of Colonizing and Decolonizing Rhetoric.
Subject: Indians of North America Government relations History 19th century
Indians of North America Government relations History 20th century
Rhetoric Political aspects United States History 19th century
Rhetoric Political aspects United States History 20th century
Indian Removal, 1813-1903
United States.
Indians allotments Law and legislation United States History 19th century
Indians allotments Law and legislation United States History 20th century
Decolonization United States History
Citizenship United States History
Indians of North America Politics and government

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