Fictions of American prehistory: Indians, archeology, and national origin myths

American Literature

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 693-721

  Kolodny, Annette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 60949723638     PISSN: 00029831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00029831-75-4-693     Document Type: Review

References (23)

1. th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archeology, 9 April 1992, Pittsburgh, Penn
2. D'Arcy McNickle (Cree-Salish) raises similar issues in They Came Here First: The Epic of the American Indian (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1949; New York: Octagon/Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1975, rev. ed.)
3. Bartolomé de las Casas, Historia de las Indias, ed. Augustin Miliares Carlo, 3 vols. (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica, 1951), 1:149
4. quoted in Anthony Pagden, European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to Romanticism (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1993), 7
5. Alexander von Humboldt, Vues des Cordillères et Monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique (Paris: F. Schoell, 1810), 1-3
6. Review of History of the Indian Tribes of North America.... by Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall, North American Review 47 (July 1838): 142
7. quoted in Lucy Maddox, Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Politics of Indian Affairs (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1991), 26. Further references to Removals will be cited parenthetically as R
8. See Caleb Atwater, "Description of the Antiquities Discovered in the State of Ohio and Other Western States," Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society, 6 vols. (Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1820), 1:105-267
9. George Catlin, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians, ed. Marjorie Halpin, 2 vols. (1841; reprint, New York: Dover, 1973), 2:246
10. Jedediah Morse, A Report to the Secretary of War, of the United States, on Indian Affairs (1822; reprint, New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1970), 357-59; quoted in Maddox, R, 24
11. Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Mather, July 1773, The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, ed. William B. Willcox, 35 vols. (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1959-99), 20:287; further references will be cited parenthetically as PBF
12. Timothy Dwight, Travels in New England and New York, ed. Barbara Miller Solomon, 4 vols. (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 1969), 1:91. Dwight served as President of Yale College in New Haven from 1795 to 1817
13. th December, 1811 (New York: James Eastburn, 1812), 60, 61
14. Robert Silverberg, Moundbuilders of Ancient America: The Archeology of a Myth (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1968), 58
15. See Silverberg, Moundbuilders, 98
16. Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America, 5 vols. (New York: Appleton, 1874-76), 5:787
17. Garrick Mallery, "Picture-Writing of the American Indians," Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1888-89 (Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1893), 35; further references will be cited parenthetically as "P-W "
18. Cyrus Thomas, "Report on the Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology," Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 730
19. Thomas, "Report on the Mound Explorations," 726-27
20. Representative Richard Wilde, Register of Debates, VI, 1093
21. quoted in Michael Paul Rogin, Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian (New York: Knopf, 1975; reprint, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction, 1991), 116
22. Sacvan Bercovitch, The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America (New York: Routledge, 1993), 30
23. Dean R. Snow, The Archeology of New England (New York: Academic Press, 1980), 205