TY - BOOK AU - Conn,Steven TI - History's shadow: Native Americans and historical consciousness in the nineteenth century SN - 9780226115115 (electronic bk.) AV - E77 .C75 2004eb U1 - 973.04/97 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Indians of North America KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Ethnology KW - United States KW - Indiens d'Amérique KW - Amérique du Nord KW - Histoire KW - 19e siècle KW - Ethnologie KW - États-Unis KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Ethnic Studies KW - Native American Studies KW - bisacsh KW - Indianen KW - gtt KW - Ontstaansgeschiedenis KW - Oorsprong KW - Historisch besef KW - Onderzoek KW - Civilization KW - Indian influences KW - Civilisation KW - Influence indienne d'Amérique KW - ამერიკელი ინდიელები KW - ისტორია KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-270) and index; Native Americans and the problem of history, part 1 -- Images of history : Indians in American art -- Fade to silence : Indians and the study of language -- The past is underground : archaeology and the search for Indian history -- The art and science of describing and classifying : the triumph of anthropology -- Native Americans and the problem of history, part 2 N2 - Who were the Native Americans? Where did they come from and how long ago? Did they have a history, and would they have a future? Questions such as these dominated intellectual life in the United States during the nineteenth century. And for many Americans, such questions about the original inhabitants of their homeland inspired a flurry of historical investigation, scientific inquiry, and heated political debate. History's Shadow traces the struggle of Americans trying to understand the people who originally occupied the continent claimed as their own. Steven Conn considers how the question of UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=262649 ER -