Table of Contents:
  • What's in a nation? Cherokee vanguardism in Elias Boudinot's letters
  • Experiments in signifying sovereignty : exemplarity and the politics of southern New England in William Apess
  • Among ghost dances : Sarah Winnemucca and the production of Paiute identity
  • The Native informant speaks : the politics of ethnographic subjectivity in ZitkalaĆ a's autobiographical stories
  • Coda. On refusing the ethnographic imaginary, or reading for the politics of peoplehood.