Real native genius : how an ex-slave and a white Mormon became famous Indians / Angela Pulley Hudson.

Author/creator Hudson, Angela Pulley author.
Format Book
PublicationChapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Description255 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Growing up a slave in the Native South -- Coming of age in the early Mormon Church -- Building a frontier following as Indian prophets -- Becoming stage performers in the East -- Performing Indianness in music, medicine, and marriage -- Practicing obstetrics as an Indian doctress.
Abstract "Uniting disparate histories of slavery, Mormonism, popular culture, and American medicine, Angela Pulley Hudson weaves together a fascinating tale of ingenuity, imposture, and identity. While laying bare the complex relationship between race, religion, and gender across much of the nineteenth-century United States and Canada, Hudson shows how shifting concepts of identity were understood and performed in the context of vast social changes. Through the lives of Tubbee and Ceil, Hudson details the complex and fluid nature of Native identity during the antebellum period in the United States" -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 217-240) and index.
LCCN 2014048327
ISBN9781469624433 (pbk : alk. paper)
ISBN1469624435 (pbk : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks E89 .H895 2015 ✔ Available Place Hold