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Author Hudson, Angela Pulley, author.

Title Real native genius : how an ex-slave and a white Mormon became famous Indians / Angela Pulley Hudson.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.89 H86    Check Shelf
Description 255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-240) and index.
Contents Coming of age in Mississippi : the life and times of Warner McCrary -- Growing up among the Mormons : Lucy Stanton's remarkable youth -- Building a following in the West : the McCrary's reinvent themselves -- Becoming professional Indians : the eastern debut of Okah Tubbee and Laah Ceil -- Defending their Indianness : the Tubbees' trials and tribulations -- Practicing Indian medicine : Laah Ceil's eventful final years.
Summary "Uniting disparate histories of slavery, Mormonism, popular culture, and American medicine, Angela Pulley Hudson weaves together a fascinating tale of ingenuity, imposture, and identity. While laying bare the complex relationship between race, religion, and gender across much of the nineteenth-century United States and Canada, Hudson shows how shifting concepts of identity were understood and performed in the context of vast social changes. Through the lives of Tubbee and Ceil, Hudson details the complex and fluid nature of Native identity during the antebellum period in the United States" -- Provided by publisher.
Subject Indians of North America -- 19th century -- Biography.
Tubbee, Okah, 1810 or 1811-
Indigenous peoples in popular culture -- 19th century.
Indians in popular culture -- 19th century.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- 19th century -- Biography.
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Ethnic identity.
Subject Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity.
Tubbee, Laah Ceil Manatoi Elaah, 1817-
ISBN 9781469624433 (pbk : alk. paper)
1469624435 (pbk : alk. paper)
9781469624440 (ebook)
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