Janice Schuetz

Episodes in the Rhetoric of Government-Indian Relations (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Scholarly considerations of the relationship between the United States government and Native Americans have largely ignored the rhetoric utilized by both in the course of their ongoing conflicts. This fascinating new study concentrates on the persuasive and public strategies of both government and Indian leaders, focusing on the written and oral records of several key episodes in American history. This approach, which author Janice Schuetz calls rhetorical ancestry reveals the ways in which government and Indian spokespersons have constituted and defined issues; created, prolonged, and managed conflict; and silenced and empowered each other's voices. Chronicling the emergence of government and Indian leaders who were forced to deal with conflicts in new ways, each chapter makes use of historical evidence to draw inferences about the rhetorical features of the discourse and its effects. Both verbal and nonverbal rhetoric-including treaties, letters, oral histories, speeches, ritual performances, media reports, biographical narratives, protests and demonstrations, political hearings, and legal proceedings-are represented here, illuminating a legacy that evolved in the personal and political language of its participants.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 339
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313012426
• Artikelnr.: 68528701

Autorenporträt

JANICE SCHUETZ is a Professor of Communication at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of The Logic of Women on Trial and more than 60 articles and book chapters, and co-author of Communication and Litigation, The O.J. Simpson Trials, and Perspectives on Argumentation.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Dramatistic Analysis and the Puget Sound War
1854-1858 Rhetorical Genres and the Sioux Uprising
1862 Political Spectacles and the Sand Creek Massacre
1864-1865 Colonial Discourse and the Navajo Internment
1846-1868 Identity Transformation and the Journeys of Fanny Kelly and Chief Red Cloud
1864-1870 Rituals of Redress and Zuni Witch Cases
1880-1900 Resistance
Advocacy
and the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho
1868-1961 Legislative Movements and the Return of Blue Lake
1922-1970 Ethnography and Puget Sound Indian Fishing Rights
1973-1974 Lamentation and Agitation at Wounded Knee
1890 and 1973 Indian Alcohol Abuse
Narrative Reasoning
and the Gordon House Case
1992-2000 Bibliography Index