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The place of stone : Dighton Rock and the erasure of America's indigenous past / Douglas Hunter.

by Hunter, Doug, 1959-

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The University of North Carolina Press, c2017.

Petroglyphs -- Massachusetts -- Dighton Rock -- History.

Indians of North America -- Government relations.

Dighton Rock (Mass.) -- Historiography.

9781469634401 (hc)

1469634406 (hc)

324 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-308) and index.

A lost Portuguese explorer's American boulder -- First impressions and first arrivals: colonists encounter Dighton Rock -- Altogether ignorant: denying an indigenous provenance and constructing gothicism -- Multiple migrations: esotericism, Beringia, and Native Americans as Tartar hordes -- Stones of power: Edward Augustus Kendall's esoteric case for Dighton Rock's indigeneity -- Colonization's new epistemology: American archaeology and the road to the Trail of Tears -- Vinland imagined: the Norsemen and the gothicists claim Dighton Rock -- Shingwauk's reading: Dighton Rock and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's troubled ethnology -- Reversing Dighton Rock's polarity: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the American Ethnological Society, and the Grave Creek Stone -- Meaningless scribblings: Edmund Burke Delabarre, lazy Indians, and the Corte-Real theory -- American place-making: Dighton Rock as a Portuguese relic -- The stone's place: Dighton Rock Museum and narratives of power.

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