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

Walkiewicz, Kathryn

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Description

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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