Real native genius : how an ex-slave and a white Mormon became famous Indians /
"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-...
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Growing up a slave in the Native South
- Coming of age in the early Mormon Church
- Building a frontier following as Indian prophets
- Becoming stage performers in the East
- Performing Indianness in music, medicine, and marriage
- Practicing obstetrics as an Indian doctress.
