Germans and Indians

Colin G. Calloway is chair of Native American studies at Dartmouth College. He is the author of New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America and The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities. Gerd Gemünden is a professor of German and comparative literature at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Framed Visions: Popular Culture, Americanization, and the Contemporary German and Austrian Imagination. The author of Colonial Fantasies: Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770–1870, Susanne Zantop was a professor of German and comparative literature at Dartmouth College.

"The book is rich in historical background and literary examples of the alleged German-Indian affinity and provides an excellent source for further study in this field."—Kerstin Knopf, American Studies "The volume's contributions. . . . offer expert as well as non-expert readers rewarding insights and information. Especially refreshing are the close-up studies of colonial German immigrants and their relationship to other settlers and to Native American groups."—Harry Liebersohn, American Historial Review "Rarely does one encounter a book that is as difficult to evaluate in brief as it is fascinating to read. . . . Since no comparable study of encounters between Germans and Indians exists, this book addresses a major void in the history of trans-Atlantic interaction. . . . In addition to its ambitious scope, it also provides an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary literature. Because of its variegated array of academic vocabularies and methodologies, this book will command the attention of anyone interested in the contemporary resonance and history of the multifaceted encounters that have taken place between Germans and the indigenous peoples of North America since the seventeenth century."—Brian J. Boeck, H-Net Review

• List of Illustrations; Editors' Acknowledgments Part 1: Introduction Close Encounters: Deutsche and Indianer - Susanne Zantop Compatriots - Emma Lee Warrior Germany's Indians in a European Perspective - Christian F. Feest Part 2: Historical Encounters Historical Encounters across Five Centuries - Colin G. Calloway American Indians and Moravians in Southern New England - Corinna Dally-Starna and William A. Starna "The Complexion of My Country": The German as "Other" in Colonial Pennsylvania - Liam Riordan German Immigrants and Intermarriage with American Indians in the Pacific Northwest - Russel Lawrence Barsh A Nineteenth-Century Ojibwa Conquers Germany - Bernd Peyer Part 3: Projections and Performances German Indianthusiasm: A Socially Constructed German National(ist) Myth - Hartmut Lutz Nineteenth-Century German Representations of Indians from Experience - Jeffrey L. Sammons Indians Playing, Indians Praying: Native Americans in Wild West Shows and Catholic Missions - Karl Markus Kreis Germans Playing Indian - Marta Carlson Indian Impersonation as Historical Surrogation - Katrin Sieg Between Karl May and Karl Marx: The defa Indianerfilme - Gerd Gemunden Part 4: Two-Souled Warriors: The Conjunction of Germans and Indians Revisited "Stranger and Stranger": The (German) Other in Canadian Indigenous Texts - Renate Eigenbrod An Introduction to Louise Erdrich's The Antelope Wife - Ute Lischke-McNab "Blitzkuchen," An Excerpt from The Antelope Wife - Louise Erdrich Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index