Episodes in the Rhetoric of Government-Indian Relations

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By Janice Schuetz

ISBN: 0-275-97613-0

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97613-2

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339 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 5/30/2002

List Price: $103.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)

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This book illuminates a rhetorical legacy that evolved in the personal, political, and legal discourse of those who participated in the episodes. All levels and collections.
—Choice January 2003
[l]audable and a welcome addendum to scholary treatments of Native American rhetoric....[P]rofessor Schuetz admirably seeks throughout the book to bring a variety of methodologies to bear on her analysis....[E]pisodes should be a welcome addition to scholars interested in issues of dominance power.
—Rhetoric & Public Affairs Spring 2003
Uses speeches, treaties, oral histories, and other sources in a study of the "rhetorical ancestry" of relations between American Indians and the U.S. government.
—The Chronicle of Higher Education June 7, 2002

Description: Scholarly considerations of the relationship between the United States government and Native Americans have largely ignored the rhetoric utilized by both in the course of their ongoing conflicts. This fascinating new study concentrates on the persuasive and public strategies of both government and Indian leaders, focusing on the written and oral records of several key episodes in American history. This approach, which author Janice Schuetz calls "rhetorical ancestry" reveals the ways in which government and Indian spokespersons have constituted and defined issues; created, prolonged, and managed conflict; and silenced and empowered each other's voices. Chronicling the emergence of government and Indian leaders who were forced to deal with conflicts in new ways, each chapter makes use of historical evidence to draw inferences about the rhetorical features of the discourse and its effects. Both verbal and nonverbal rhetoric--including treaties, letters, oral histories, speeches, ritual performances, media reports, biographical narratives, protests and demonstrations, political hearings, and legal proceedings--are represented here, illuminating a legacy that evolved in the personal and political language of its participants.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Dramatistic Analysis and the Puget Sound War, 1854-1858
Rhetorical Genres and the Sioux Uprising, 1862
Political Spectacles and the Sand Creek Massacre, 1864-1865
Colonial Discourse and the Navajo Internment, 1846-1868
Identity Transformation and the Journeys of Fanny Kelly and Chief Red Cloud, 1864-1870
Rituals of Redress and Zuni Witch Cases, 1880-1900
Resistance, Advocacy, and the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho, 1868-1961
Legislative Movements and the Return of Blue Lake, 1922-1970
Ethnography and Puget Sound Indian Fishing Rights, 1973-1974
Lamentation and Agitation at Wounded Knee, 1890 and 1973
Indian Alcohol Abuse, Narrative Reasoning, and the Gordon House Case, 1992-2000
Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 2001051173

LCC Class: E93

Dewey Class: 323


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