Before American History: Nationalist Mythmaking And Indigenous Dispossession (Writing The Early Americas) - 9780813948249

This book argues that the current understanding of North America's past was created as a tool of nationalism, and that it required the misappropriation of Indigenous histories. In the United States and Mexico, the Indigenous past was repurposed as American history while at the same time used to erase and denigrate Native peoples, a legacy that continues when we repeat these narratives--

• | Author: Christen Mucher
• | Publisher: University Of Virginia Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 11, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 426 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 081394824X
• | ISBN-13: 9780813948249