Native tongues : colonialism and race from encounter to the reservation / Sean P. Harvey.

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"Native Tongues explores the morally entangled territory of language and race as it relates the intellectual history of encounters between whites and Native Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Misunderstandings about the differences between European and indigenous American language...

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Main Author: Harvey, Sean P., 1978-
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples, Treatment of > North America > History > 18th century.
Indigenous peoples, Treatment of > North America > History > 19th century.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Languages > History.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Colonization > History.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Government relations > History.
Languages in contact > North America > History.
Imperialism > Social aspects > North America > History.
Racism > North America > History.
North America > Race relations > History.
Imperialism > Social aspects.
Indians of North America > Colonization.
Indians of North America > Government relations.
Indians of North America > Languages.
Indians, Treatment of.
Languages in contact.
Race relations.
Racism.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:338 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Language encounters and the "mind of man, in the savage state"
  • Descent and relations
  • Much more fertile than commonly supposed
  • Four clicks and two gutturals and a nasal
  • The unchangeable character of the "Indian mind"
  • Of blood and language
  • Epilogue.