The place of stone : Dighton Rock and the erasure of America's indigenous past /
Hunter, Doug, 1959-
The place of stone : Dighton Rock and the erasure of America's indigenous past / Douglas Hunter. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
A lost Portuguese explorer's American boulder -- First impressions and first arrivals: colonists encounter Dighton Rock -- Altogether ignorant: denying an indigenous provenance and constructing gothicism -- Multiple migrations: esotericism, Beringia, and Native Americans as Tartar hordes -- Stones of power: Edward Augustus Kendall's esoteric case for Dighton Rock's indigeneity -- Colonization's new epistemology: American archaeology and the road to the Trail of Tears -- Vinland imagined: the Norsemen and the gothicists claim Dighton Rock -- Shingwauk's reading: Dighton Rock and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's troubled ethnology -- Reversing Dighton Rock's polarity: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the American Ethnological Society, and the Grave Creek Stone -- Meaningless scribblings: Edmund Burke Delabarre, lazy Indians, and the Corte-Real theory -- American place-making: Dighton Rock as a Portuguese relic -- The stone's place: Dighton Rock Museum and narratives of power.
9781469634418 9781469634425
Petroglyphs--History.--Massachusetts--Dighton Rock
Indians of North America--Government relations.
Electronic Books.
F74 / .P533 2017
The place of stone : Dighton Rock and the erasure of America's indigenous past / Douglas Hunter. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
A lost Portuguese explorer's American boulder -- First impressions and first arrivals: colonists encounter Dighton Rock -- Altogether ignorant: denying an indigenous provenance and constructing gothicism -- Multiple migrations: esotericism, Beringia, and Native Americans as Tartar hordes -- Stones of power: Edward Augustus Kendall's esoteric case for Dighton Rock's indigeneity -- Colonization's new epistemology: American archaeology and the road to the Trail of Tears -- Vinland imagined: the Norsemen and the gothicists claim Dighton Rock -- Shingwauk's reading: Dighton Rock and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's troubled ethnology -- Reversing Dighton Rock's polarity: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the American Ethnological Society, and the Grave Creek Stone -- Meaningless scribblings: Edmund Burke Delabarre, lazy Indians, and the Corte-Real theory -- American place-making: Dighton Rock as a Portuguese relic -- The stone's place: Dighton Rock Museum and narratives of power.
9781469634418 9781469634425
Petroglyphs--History.--Massachusetts--Dighton Rock
Indians of North America--Government relations.
Electronic Books.
F74 / .P533 2017