Before American history : nationalist mythmaking and indigenous dispossession

Summary: "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 used to erase and denigrate Native peoples, a legacy that continues when we repeat these narratives"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780813948249 (hardcover)
Physical Description: xxii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Preface : unsettling the moundbuilders -- A note on terminology and method -- Ordering the "Indian" archive -- Storied lands of the Old West -- Mexico antiguo through Americano eyes -- Nationalist science and the chronology of dispossession -- Removal in the antiquarian archive -- An American Babylon in the Mexican Republic -- Epilogue: after American history.