Native Tongues
Subtitle: Colonialism and Race from Encounter to the Reservation
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780674289932
Subjects: Indians of north america, treaties; Indians of north america, languages; Indians of north america, government relations; Languages in contact; Imperialism; Racism; North america, race relations
Description: "Native Tongues explores the morally entangled territory of language and race as it relates the intellectual history of encounters between whites and Native Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Misunderstandings about the differences between European and indigenous American languages strongly influenced whites' beliefs about the descent and capabilities of Native Americans. These beliefs would play an important role in the subjugation of Native peoples as the United States pursued its 'manifest destiny' of westward expansion"--Provided by publisher.