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Wide open spaces: place, empire, and U.S.-indigenous relations, 1816-1907

Walkiewicz, Kathryn

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Title
Wide open spaces: place, empire, and U.S.-indigenous relations, 1816-1907
Author(s)
Walkiewicz, Kathryn
Issue Date
2014-09-16
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Loughran, Patricia
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Loughran, Patricia
Committee Member(s)
  • Byrd, Jodi A.
  • Hoxie, Frederick E.
  • Parker, Robert D.
  • Warrior, Robert
Department of Study
English
Discipline
English
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
  • Literature
  • American Studies
  • Native American Studies
  • Native American Literature
  • Nineteenth-Century American Literature
  • U.S. Print Culture
  • U.S. Empire
  • Statehood
  • Florida
  • Cuba
  • Kansas
  • Oklahoma
Abstract
Wide Open Spaces: Place, Empire, and U.S.-Indigenous Relations, 1816-1907 investigates the changing borders of the U.S. settler nation-state and Native nations throughout the nineteenth century. The project looks at three key sites, Florida, Cuba, and Oklahoma, to unpack how statehood debates challenged the U.S. to determine who and what to include within its borders. Print culture narrated these moments of particular geopolitical and cultural flux and operated (often on both sides of the colonial divide) to establish a narrative cartography of place.
Graduation Semester
2014-08
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Copyright 2014 Kathryn Walkiewicz

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