"Something Savage and Luxuriant"
American Identity and the Indian Place-Name Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18992004 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Herman (0000-0003-4125-7569), R D K Herman (National Museum of the American Indian, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-46 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Indian Culture and Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-6463 • E-ISSN: 0161-6463 |
| Publisher | California Digital Library (CDL) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17953/aicr.39.1.u435154w2j7n2112 |
| OpenAlex | W1873948492 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
The treatment of American Indian place-names provides a window into the growth of American nationalism since 1776 and attitudes towards Indians by the new settler society. Originally ignored or erased by European colonists, Indian place-names became a subject of fascination and scholarship from the late-nineteenth century, at the same time that Indians themselves were marginalized to reservations. A large body of literature produced by non-Natives sometimes frames these place names as "romantic," and other times as distinctly unromantic. In the voluminous literature on this topic, the treatment of Indians and their place-names reflects diverse and shifting attitudes towards American Indians in United States culture, as elaborated by Philip Deloria and Robert Berkhofer. Drawing on approximately 120 texts on Indian place-names, this study uses the lens of romance, a polyvalent term with various implications, to examine how non-Native writings on these toponyms reveals attitudes towards Indians themselves and their place in the American nationalist imagination
Aesthetics · Art · Ethnology · Literature · Nationalism · Political science · Romance · Scholarship · Sociology · Toponymy · American History and Culture · Anthropology · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |