“Woven alike with meaning” : sovereignty and form in Native North American poetry, 1800-1910

• Main Author: Grewe, Lauren Marie
• Other Authors: Cohen, Matt, 1970-, Cox, James H. (James Howard), 1968-, Winship, Michael, Bennett, Chad, Fitzgerald, Stephanie
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Native American; Indigenous; American Indian; Poetry; Early American; Nineteenth century; Early twentieth century; American poetry; Ballad; Elegy; Lyric; Poetic form; E. Pauline Johnson; Alex Posey; Jane Johnston Schoolcraft; Simon Pokagon; Anishinaabe; Ojibwe; Potawatomi; Chicago; Creek; Muskogee; Mohawk; Chicago Creek; Indian; anishina*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/63538; https://doi.org/10.15781/T2RJ49B5J

The story of American poetry has developed alongside the idea of America itself, becoming almost synonymous with national sovereignty projects in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During this time the figure of the Indian was, in poetry, customarily depicted as melancholy and moribund, a...