Modernity Through Letter Writing Cherokee and Seneca Political Representations in Response to Removal, 1830–1857
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Claudia B. Haake is a senior lecturer in history at La Trobe University. She is the author of The State, Removal and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Mexico, 1620–2000 and coeditor (with Richard Bessel) of Removing Peoples: Forced Migration in the Modern World.Modernity Through Letter Writing Cherokee and Seneca Political Representations in Response to Removal, 1830–1857
“Claudia Haake’s fine-grained study details an emerging world of early nineteenth-century American Indian letter writing, in which Native peoples reshaped familiar rhetoric and animated new forms of diplomacy to preserve their independence and control over land and culture. <i>Modernity through Letter Writing</i> makes a major contribution to studies of indigenous literary production and political consciousness.”-Philip J. Deloria, coeditor of <i>A Companion to American Indian History</i><br /> “What is especially important about this volume is the way Haake presents in historical context the urgent transition that indigenous nations, such as the Cherokees and Senecas, went through to adapt the English language into their political and cultural sovereignty at a time of crisis.”-David MartÍnez, author of <i>Life of the Indigenous Mind: Vine Deloria Jr. and the Birth of the Red Power Movement</i><br /> “Extraordinary. . . . This is a sui generis study for all of us to rethink how American Indians shaped their histories.”-Donald L. Fixico, author of <i>Call for Change: The Medicine Way of American Indian History, Ethos, and Reality</i><br /> <br />
The amount of time and energy they expended on the missives demonstrates that authors from both tribes considered letters, memoranda, and petitions to be a crucial political strategy. Instead of merely observing Western written conventions, the Cherokees and Senecas incorporated oral writing and consciously insisted on elements of their own culture they wanted to preserve, seeking to convey to the government a vision of their continued political separateness as well as of their own modernity.
“Claudia Haake’s fine-grained study details an emerging world of early nineteenth-century American Indian letter writing, in which Native peoples reshaped familiar rhetoric and animated new forms of diplomacy to preserve their independence and control over land and culture. <i>Modernity through Letter Writing</i> makes a major contribution to studies of indigenous literary production and political consciousness.”-Philip J. Deloria, coeditor of <i>A Companion to American Indian History</i><br /> “What is especially important about this volume is the way Haake presents in historical context the urgent transition that indigenous nations, such as the Cherokees and Senecas, went through to adapt the English language into their political and cultural sovereignty at a time of crisis.”-David MartÍnez, author of <i>Life of the Indigenous Mind: Vine Deloria Jr. and the Birth of the Red Power Movement</i><br /> “Extraordinary. . . . This is a sui generis study for all of us to rethink how American Indians shaped their histories.”-Donald L. Fixico, author of <i>Call for Change: The Medicine Way of American Indian History, Ethos, and Reality</i><br /> <br />
The amount of time and energy they expended on the missives demonstrates that authors from both tribes considered letters, memoranda, and petitions to be a crucial political strategy. Instead of merely observing Western written conventions, the Cherokees and Senecas incorporated oral writing and consciously insisted on elements of their own culture they wanted to preserve, seeking to convey to the government a vision of their continued political separateness as well as of their own modernity.