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"History's Shadow traces the struggle of Americans trying to understand the people who originally occupied the continent they now claimed as their own. Steven Conn considers how the question of the Indian compelled Americans to abandon older explanatory frameworks for sovereignty like the Bible and classical literature and instead develop new ones. Through their engagement with Native American language and culture, American intellectuals helped shape and define the emerging fields of archaeology, ethnology, linguistics, and art. But more important, the questions posed by the presence of the Indian in the United States forced Americans to confront the meaning of history itself, both that of Native Americans and their own: how it should be studied, what drove its processes, and where it might ultimately lead. The encounter with Native Americans, Conn argues, helped give rise to a distinctly American historical consciousness."--BOOK JACKET.
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History's shadow: Native Americans and historical consciousness in the nineteenth century
2003, University of Chicago Press·, University of Chicago Press
in English
0226114945 9780226114941
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