Native American Speakers of the Eastern Woodlands
Subtitle: Selected Speeches and Critical Analyses (Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: April 30, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780313312571
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries; Native Americans - History; Oratory; History; Reference; American English; North & Central American indigenous languages; Literary Criticism; North America; American - Native American; General; Native American; Rhetoric; Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric; Speeches, addresses, etc., Ind; Speeches, addresses, etc., Indian; United States
First sentence: A deep problem arises in speaking of the Native history of the American Southeast: Few Americans today realize that the South sustained a two-hundred fifty-year Spanish occupation, or that "La Florida," the lands the Spanish once pompously claimed, extended up the peninsula of Florida, north through Georgia and South Carolina, west to the Mississippiand even up into the Ohio Valley ' Modern amnesia concerning the Spanish tenure is unfortunate, for the southeastern response to first contact was vigorous in the sixteenth century, with the Guale Revolt, its capstone and its emblem