Florida Place-Names of Indian Origin and Seminole Personal Names

Read, William A.; Wickman, Patricia R.

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“…The imagination of the Indian is aroused, to a great extent, by that which he sees and hears; whereas the imagination of the white man is moulded, to an extent equally great or even greater, by his familiarity with much that is lovely and imperishable, enshrined in the literatures of the world and brought down to him from a thousand yesterdays. 33 Finally, E. H. M. Clifford asserts that "place-names are given differently by peoples of different economic orders and at different stages of civilization . .…”

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"Something Savage and Luxuriant": American Identity and the Indian Place-Name Literature

Herman

2015

American Indian Culture and Research Journal

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The treatment of American Indian place-names provides a window into the growth of American nationalism since 1776 and attitudes towards Indians by the new settler society. Originally ignored or erased by European colonists, Indian place-names became a subject of fascination and scholarship from the late-nineteenth century, at the same time that Indians themselves were marginalized to reservations. A large body of literature produced by non-Natives sometimes frames these place names as "romantic," and other times as distinctly unromantic. In the voluminous literature on this topic, the treatment of Indians and their place-names reflects diverse and shifting attitudes towards American Indians in United States culture, as elaborated by Philip Deloria and Robert Berkhofer. Drawing on approximately 120 texts on Indian place-names, this study uses the lens of romance, a polyvalent term with various implications, to examine how non-Native writings on these toponyms reveals attitudes towards Indians themselves and their place in the American nationalist imagination.

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Section: Indians As Namersmentioning

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"Something Savage and Luxuriant": American Identity and the Indian Place-Name Literature

Herman

2015

American Indian Culture and Research Journal

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Florida Place-Names of Indian Origin and Seminole Personal Names

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"Something Savage and Luxuriant": American Identity and the Indian Place-Name Literature

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