Table of Contents

Laura L. Mielke, Introduction; 1. Matt Cohen, Lying Inventions: Native Dissimulation in Early Colonial New England; 2. Nan Goodman, The Deer Island Indians and Common Law Performance; 3. John Pollack, Native Performances of Diplomacy and Religion in Early New France; 4. Olivia Bloechl, Wendat Song and Carnival Noise in the Jesuit Relations; 5. Stephanie Fitzgerald, 'I Wunnatuckquannum, This Is My Hand': Native Performance in Massachusett Language Indian Deeds; 6. Caroline Wigginton, In a Red Petticoat: Coosaponakeesa's Performance of Creek Sovereignty in Colonial Georgia; 7. Jenny Hale Pulsipher, Playing John White: John Wompas and Racial Identity in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World; 8. Timothy J. Shannon, 'This Wretched Scene of British Curiosity and Savage Debauchery': Performing Indian Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Britain; 9. Phillip H. Round, Performing Indian Publics: Two Native Views of Diplomacy to the Western Nations in 1792; 10. Theresa Strouth Gaul, Editing as Indian Performance: Elias Boudinot, Poetry, and the Cherokee Phoenix Philip J. Deloria, Afterword Contributors; Index

Prizes

Challenges simple understanding of cultural "authenticity" even as it celebrates the dynamic role of performance in the American Indian pursuit of self-determination