Native Acts: Indian Performance, 1603-1832

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Index Aberdeen (Scotland), 237 Abler, Thomas S., 264, 277n28, 277n37, 277n45 Abrahams, Roger, 20n13 Acadia, 103, 108n14 Acqumeh people, 4 agency, Native: European understanding of, 28, 38, 55–72, 75n22, 255; and land sales, 163n14; and performance, 5, 10, 17–18, 173; and texts, 188, 262, 285, 299, 301 Ahteohoo, Caleb (Callab), 158–60 alcohol, 176, 183, 203–4, 230–33, 292 Alet (France), 124 Alfred, Taiaiake, 256 Algonquians, 9, 95, 145, 152; and ceremony, 117, 135; and communication practices, 13; and deception, 14, 34, 37–45; and diplomacy, 311 Algonquins (Anishinabek), 81, 83–84, 90, 95–96, 98, 101–2, 107n2 Allen, Paula Gunn, 18n4, 21n17 Amsterdam, 236 Anadabijou, 82–89, 94, 95, 98, 100–102, 104, 105–6 Andros, Edmund, 148 Anishinaabe. See Ojibwas (Anishinaabe) Anne, Queen (of Great Britain), 72, 239 Anne of Austria (queen consort of France), 126 Apess, William, 281, 286; “An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man,” 42 Arkansas, 299 Atirenda society, 134, 140n51 Attakullakulla (Little Carpenter), 227, 231–32, 235 Attignawantan Nation, 128, 140n52 Aupaumut, Hendrick, 251, 256– 71, 273, 276n20 Austin, J. L., 19n5 Axtell, James, 12, 21n19, 28, 41, 85 Baine, Rodney M., 190n14 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 97 Bank, Rosemarie K., 6, 19n6, 20n11, 20n13 Baudrillard, Jean, 44 Beaulieu, Alain, 87, 95, 97 Beecher, Lyman, 281 Bell, Catherine, 147, 163n9 [322] Index Bellin, Joshua David, 6, 54; Demon of the Continent, 302n9; Medicine Bundle, 19n5, 210 Bennett, Paula Bernat, 287, 303n21 Beurrier, Paul, 123–24 Bhabha, Homi, 39 Bible, 30, 131, 290; Elias Boudinot’s translation of, 287, 292, 296, 304n29; and European reception of Native traditions, 91–94, 277n37; and Indian literacy, 60, 148; and Pequot medicine bundle, 152 Big Cat, 266–67 Black Hawk, 20n13, 275n12 Blessius, Lorentz, 236 Block Island, 35–38 Bloechl, Olivia, 15 Bonnin, Gertrude (Zitkala-Ša), 19n6 Bosomworth, Mary. See Coosaponakeesa (Mary Musgrove Mathews Bosomworth) Bosomworth, Thomas, 175, 190n14 Boston, 68, 70, 198–99, 201, 203, 209, 212, 213, 216n63, 281–83 Boston Harbor, 14, 53 Boswell, James, 240, 241, 244n41 Boudinot, Elias, 16, 272; “An Address to the Whites, Delivered in the First Presbyterian Church, on the 26th of May, 1826,” 301n1; Bible translation by, 287, 292, 296, 304n29; as editor of The Cherokee Phoenix, 281–301, 303n11, 303n20; education of, 282, 302n3, 302n6 Bouwman, Heather, 276n17 Bowles, William Augustus, 240–41 Brackenridge, Hugh Henry, 240 Bragdon, Kathleen J. 149, 152, 154, 162n3, 163n4 Brant, Joseph, 240–41, 244n41, 258, 259, 260 Braund, Katherine E. Holland, 171, 191n26 Brébeuf, Jean de, 131–34, 140n51, 140n52 Bredon, Thomas, 215n44 A Brief History of the Warr with the Indians in New-England (Mather), 63 Bristol (England), 229, 236 British crown, 186–87, 204–7, 212; and Cherokee embassies, 221–23, 224, 226, 227, 229, 234, 235, 238, 241. See also names of individual monarchs British Parliament, 59, 236, 238 Brittany, 122, 123 Brookline (Massachusetts), 36 Brooks, Joanna, 13–14, 189, 255 Brooks, Lisa, 13, 47 Bross, Kristina, 13, 22n21, 73 Browder, Laura, 6 Browne, Edmund, 208–9 Brubaker, Rogers, 213, 213n4 Bruchac, Joseph, 109n38, 111n56 Bryant, William Cullen, 294 Burkhart, Louise M., 21n19 Butler, Elizur, 296, 304n32 Butler, Judith, 41 Cambridge (Massachusetts), 206– 8, 210, 216n63 Canada, 81, 83, 89, 102, 105, 117–20, 127–37, 205, 258. See Index [323] also New France; and specific colonies and towns captivity, 12, 311; of Europeans, 1–3, 237–38, 239, 240; and narratives, 283; of Natives, 11–12, 87, 136, 249 Carlson, Marvin, 55 Carnival, 15, 118–20, 121–35, 137, 139n29. See also Infanterie Dijonnaise Cartier, Jacques, 104, 105 Cat Nation, 130 Caulet, François-Etienne, 124–25 Cave, Alfred, 38 Cayet, Pierre (Palma-Cayet, PierreVictor ), 101–3, 104, 106 Chainbreaker (Governor Blacksnake), 251, 257–60, 263– 71, 273, 276n20 Champlain, Samuel de, 15, 81–88, 89–106, 108n14, 110n43, 110n44, 127 Chaplin, Joyce, 35 Charles II (king of England), 204–7 Charlestown (Massachusetts), 69 Charlestown (South Carolina), 234 Charlevoix, Pierre, 238 Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 275n12, 291 The Cherokee Phoenix, 281–301, 302n10, 303n12. See also Boudinot, Elias; The Cherokee Phoenix, poems in; removal, Indian The Cherokee Phoenix, poems in: “Dirge of the Indian Widow,” 295; “The Exile of the Indians,” 295; “The Farmer,” 293–94; “An Indian at the Burying Place of his Fathers” (Bryant), 294; “The Indian Boy,” 295; “Indian Eloquence and Grief” (Sigourney), 294; “The Indians,” 295; “The Indian’s Exile” (Custis), 296–97, 298, 300; “The Indians...