Before American history nationalist mythmaking and Indigenous dispossession

"This book argues that the current understanding of North America's past was created as a tool of nationalism, and that it required the misappropriation of Indigenous histories. In the United States and Mexico, the Indigenous past was repurposed as American history while at the same time u...

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Main Author: Mucher, Christen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville University of Virginia Press 2022, [2022]
Series:Writing the early Americas
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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