LIBROS DEL AUTOR: maureen konkle

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  • What Jane Knew
    Maureen Konkle
    The children of an influential Ojibwe-Anglo family, Jane Johnston and her brother George were already accomplished writers when the Indian agent Henry Rowe Schoolcraft arrived in Sault Ste. Marie in 1822. Charged by Michigan’s territorial governor with collecting information on Anishinaabe people, he soon married Jane, “discovered” the family’s writings, and began soliciting th...
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  • Writing Indian Nations
    Maureen Konkle
    In the early years of the republic, the United States government negotiated with Indian nations because it could not afford protracted wars politically, militarily, or economically. Maureen Konkle argues that by depending on treaties, which rest on the equal standing of all signatories, Europeans in North America institutionalized a paradox: the very documents through which the...
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