Real native genius
Subtitle: how an ex-slave and a white Mormon became famous Indians
By: Angela Pulley Hudson
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781469624433
Subjects: Indians of North America; Ethnic identity; Biography; Indians in popular culture
Description: "Uniting disparate histories of slavery, Mormonism, popular culture, and American medicine, Angela Pulley Hudson weaves together a fascinating tale of ingenuity, imposture, and identity. While laying bare the complex relationship between race, religion, and gender across much of the nineteenth-century United States and Canada, Hudson shows how shifting concepts of identity were understood and performed in the context of vast social changes. Through the lives of Tubbee and Ceil, Hudson details the complex and fluid nature of Native identity during the antebellum period in the United States."--Publisher information.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-240) and index.
Table of contents: title: Coming of age in Mississippi : the life and times of Warner McCrary; title: Growing up among the Mormons : Lucy Stanton's remarkable youth; title: Building a following in the West : the McCrary's reinvent themselves; title: Becoming professional Indians : the eastern debut of Okah Tubbee and Laah Ceil; title: Defending their Indianness : the Tubbees' trials and tribulations; title: Practicing Indian medicine : Laah Ceil's eventful final years.