X-Marks - Native Signatures of Assent

Klappentext During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, North American Indian leaders commonly signed treaties with the European powers and the American and Canadian governments with an X, signifying their presence and assent to the terms. These x-marks indicated coercion (because the treaties were made under unfair conditions), resistance (because they were often met with protest), and acquiescence (to both a European modernity and the end of a particular moment of Indian history and identity).

Product details

• Authors: Scott Richard Lyons, LYONS SCOTT RICHARD
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.2010
• EAN: 9780816666768
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-6676-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Indigenous Americas
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research