Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-187) and index.
Contents
Introduction: The pursuit of livelihood and the production of language -- Inventing the hunter state : Iroquois livelihood in Jeffersonian America -- Narratives of decline and disappearance : the changing presence of American Indians in early Natchez -- The discourse over poverty : Indian treaty rights and welfare policy -- Perceptions of authenticity and passivity : Indian basket making in post-Civil War Louisiana -- Primitivism and tourism : Indian livelihood in D.H. Lawrence's New Mexico.
