Modernity through letter writing : Cherokee and Seneca political representations in response to removal, 1830-1857 /
Cherokee and Seneca political representations in response to removal, 1830-1857
Claudia B. Haake.
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Civilization and the Removal Policy -- Authorship and Writing Practices -- Ideas of Law in a New Age of Letter-Writing Diplomacy -- Indian Tradition and Diplomatic Custom -- The Bonds between People, Land, and Culture.
"Modernity through Letter Writing examines the discursive practices between both Native and non-Native writers during the Era of Removal. In this process of written diplomacy, protest, and petitioning, Native writers developed strategies for negotiating the policies of Indian Removal and advocating for their own indigenous nations"--