Outputs (8)

Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett (2021)
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Porter, J. (2021). Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett. Bloomsbury Press

This book examines the extraordinary life of Frank "Toronto" Prewett and the history of trauma, literary expression, and the power of self-representation after WWI. Joy Porter sheds new light on how the First World War affected the Canadian poet, and... Read More about Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett.

Settlers in Indian Country: Sovereignty and Indigenous Power in Early America (2020)
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Prior, C. (2020). Settlers in Indian Country: Sovereignty and Indigenous Power in Early America. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108883979

The aim of this short book is to foreground Native American conceptions of sovereignty and power in order to refine the place of settler colonialism in American colonial and early republican history. It argues that Indigenous concepts of sovereignty... Read More about Settlers in Indian Country: Sovereignty and Indigenous Power in Early America.

Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal (2019)
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Smithers, G. (2019). Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal. University of Oklahoma Press

Long before the indigenous people of southeastern North America first encountered Europeans and Africans, they established communities with clear social and political hierarchies and rich cultural traditions. Award-winning historian Gregory D. Smithe... Read More about Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal.

The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity (2015)
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Smithers, G. (2015). The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity. Yale University Press

The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million people internationally professing to have at least one... Read More about The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity.

Native American environmentalism: Land, spirit and the idea of wilderness (2014)
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Porter, J. (2014). Native American environmentalism: Land, spirit and the idea of wilderness. Bison books

"In Native American Environmentalism the history of indigenous peoples in North America is brought into dialogue with key environmental terms such as "wilderness" and "nature." The conflict between Christian environmentalist thinking and indigenous v... Read More about Native American environmentalism: Land, spirit and the idea of wilderness.

Place and Native American Indian history and culture (2007)
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Porter, J. (2007). J. Porter (Ed.). Place and Native American Indian history and culture. Peer Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

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«Place remains a native concept rich with political meaning for North American culture as a whole, and for the world as a whole. This volume undertakes a broad and deep exploration of what the sense of place has meant in specific Indian cultu... Read More about Place and Native American Indian history and culture.

The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (2005)
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Porter, J., & Roemer, K. M. (Eds.). (2005). The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521822831

© Cambridge University Press 2005 and 2006. This Companion provides an informative and wide-ranging overview of a relatively new field of literary-cultural studies: Literature of many genres in English by American Indians from the 1770s to the presen... Read More about The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature.

To be Indian: the life of Iroquois-Seneca Arthur Caswell Parker (2001)
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Porter, J. (2001). To be Indian: the life of Iroquois-Seneca Arthur Caswell Parker. University of Oklahoma Press

Born on the Seneca Indian Reservation in New York State, Arthur Caswell Parker (1881-1955) was a prominent intellectual leader both within and outside tribal circles. Of mixed Iroquois, Seneca, and Anglican descent, Parker was also a controversial fi... Read More about To be Indian: the life of Iroquois-Seneca Arthur Caswell Parker.