The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast
By (Author) Lisa Brooks
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st November 2008
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Social and cultural history
Indigenous peoples
970.004
Physical Properties
Paperback
352
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 28mm
Description
Literary critics frequently portray early Native American writers either as individuals caught between two worlds or as subjects who, even as they defied the colonial world, struggled to exist within it. In striking counterpoint to these analyses, Lisa Brooks demonstrates the ways in which Native leadersincluding Samson Occom, Joseph Brant, Hendrick Aupaumut, and William Apessadopted writing as a tool to reclaim rights and land in the Native networks of what is now the northeastern United States.
