Joshua David Bellin is a professor of English at La Roche College. He is the author of several books, most recently, Medicine Bundle: Indian Sacred Performance and American Literature, 1824–1932. Laura L. Mielke is an associate professor of English at the University of Kansas and the author of Moving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature.

"This is an excellent collection of essays with a common foundation of recent scholarship and shared geographic and temporal limitations."—S.J. Blackstone, Choice

• Introduction Laura L. Mielke1. Lying Inventions: Native Dissimulation in Early Colonial New England Matt Cohen 2. The Deer Island Indians and Common Law Performance Nan Goodman 3. Native Performances of Diplomacy and Religion in Early New France John H. Pollack 4. Wendat Song and Carnival Noise in the Jesuit Relations Olivia Bloechl 5. "I Wunnatuckquannum, This Is My Hand": Native Performance in Massachusett Language Indian Deeds Stephanie Fitzgerald 6. In a Red Petticoat: Coosaponakeesa's Performance of Creek Sovereignty in Colonial Georgia Caroline Wigginton 7. Playing John White: John Wompas and Racial Identity in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World Jenny Hale Pulsipher 8. "This Wretched Scene of British Curiosity and Savage Debauchery": Performing Indian Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Britain 000 Timothy J. Shannon 9. Performing Indian Publics: Two Native Views of Diplomacy to the Western Nations in 1792 Phillip H. Round 10. Editing as Indian Performance: Elias Boudinot, Poetry, and the Cherokee Phoenix Theresa Strouth Gaul Afterword Philip J. Deloria Contributors Index

Joshua David Bellin is a professor of English at La Roche College. He is the author of several books, most recently, Medicine Bundle: Indian Sacred Performance and American Literature, 1824–1932. Laura L. Mielke is an associate professor of English at the University of Kansas and the author of Moving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature.

"This is an excellent collection of essays with a common foundation of recent scholarship and shared geographic and temporal limitations."—S.J. Blackstone, Choice

• Introduction Laura L. Mielke1. Lying Inventions: Native Dissimulation in Early Colonial New England Matt Cohen 2. The Deer Island Indians and Common Law Performance Nan Goodman 3. Native Performances of Diplomacy and Religion in Early New France John H. Pollack 4. Wendat Song and Carnival Noise in the Jesuit Relations Olivia Bloechl 5. "I Wunnatuckquannum, This Is My Hand": Native Performance in Massachusett Language Indian Deeds Stephanie Fitzgerald 6. In a Red Petticoat: Coosaponakeesa's Performance of Creek Sovereignty in Colonial Georgia Caroline Wigginton 7. Playing John White: John Wompas and Racial Identity in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World Jenny Hale Pulsipher 8. "This Wretched Scene of British Curiosity and Savage Debauchery": Performing Indian Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Britain 000 Timothy J. Shannon 9. Performing Indian Publics: Two Native Views of Diplomacy to the Western Nations in 1792 Phillip H. Round 10. Editing as Indian Performance: Elias Boudinot, Poetry, and the Cherokee Phoenix Theresa Strouth Gaul Afterword Philip J. Deloria Contributors Index