Native Acts: Indian Performance, 1603-1832

Laura L. Mielke, Introduction 1. Matt Cohen, Lying Inventions: Native Dissimulation in Early Colonial New England 2. Nan Goodman, The Deer Island Indians and Common Law Performance 3. John Pollack, Native Performances of Diplomacy and Religion in Early New France 4. Olivia Bloechl, Wendat Song and Carnival Noise in the Jesuit Relations 5. Stephanie Fitzgerald, 'I Wunnatuckquannum, This Is My Hand': Native Performance in Massachusett Language Indian Deeds 6. Caroline Wigginton, In a Red Petticoat: Coosaponakeesa's Performance of Creek Sovereignty in Colonial Georgia 7. Jenny Hale Pulsipher, Playing John White: John Wompas and Racial Identity in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World 8. Timothy J. Shannon, 'This Wretched Scene of British Curiosity and Savage Debauchery': Performing Indian Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Britain 9. Phillip H. Round, Performing Indian Publics: Two Native Views of Diplomacy to the Western Nations in 1792 10. Theresa Strouth Gaul, Editing as Indian Performance: Elias Boudinot, Poetry, and the Cherokee Phoenix Philip J. Deloria, Afterword Contributors Index