TY - BOOK AU - Harvey,Sean P. TI - Native tongues: colonialism and race from encounter to the reservation T2 - Harvard historical studies SN - 9780674735798 AV - E91 .H37 2015 U1 - 323.1197 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England PB - Harvard University Press KW - Indians, Treatment of KW - North America KW - History KW - 18th century KW - 19th century KW - Indians of North America KW - Languages KW - Colonization KW - Government relations KW - Languages in contact KW - Imperialism KW - Social aspects KW - Racism KW - Attitudes envers les Indiens d'Amérique KW - Amérique du Nord KW - Histoire KW - 18e siècle KW - 19e siècle KW - Langues en contact KW - Impérialisme KW - Aspect social KW - Racisme KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Political Freedom & Security KW - Civil Rights KW - bisacsh KW - Human Rights KW - HISTORY KW - fast KW - Race relations KW - Indianerpolitik KW - gnd KW - Sprachkontakt KW - Rassismus KW - Indiens d'Amérique KW - Conditions sociales KW - ram KW - Nordamerikas indianer KW - historia KW - sao KW - sociala aspekter KW - Språk KW - Kolonisation KW - Rasrelationer KW - Relations raciales KW - Nordamerika KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Language encounters and the "mind of man, while in the savage state" -- Descent and relations -- Much more fertile than commonly supposed -- Four clicks and two gutturals, and a nasal -- The unchangeable character of the "Indian mind" -- Of blood and language -- Epilogue N2 - "Native Tongues explores the morally entangled territory of language and race as it relates the intellectual history of encounters between whites and Native Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Misunderstandings about the differences between European and indigenous American languages strongly influenced whites' beliefs about the descent and capabilities of Native Americans. These beliefs would play an important role in the subjugation of Native peoples as the United States pursued its 'manifest destiny' of westward expansion"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=931095 ER -