The common pot
Subtitle: the recovery of native space in the Northeast
By: Lisa Brooks.
Series: Indigenous Americas series -- 7
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780816647835; 9780816647842
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Psychology; Indian philosophy; Sacred space -- North America; Geographical perception -- North America
Description: "Literary critics frequently portray early Native American writers either as individuals caught between two worlds or as subjects who, even as they defied the colonial world, struggled to exist within it. In striking counterpoint to these analyses, Lisa Brooks demonstrates the ways in which Native leaders - including Samson Occom, Joseph Brant, Hendrick Aupaumut, and William Apess - adopted writing as a tool to reclaim rights and land in the Native networks of what is now the northeastern United States."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Cornell University, 2004).

Includes bibliographical references and index.