Sensitive Negotiations: Indigenous Diplomacy and British Romantic Poetry

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Examines how Indigenous figures used British Romantic poetry in their interactions with settler governments and publics. Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: The Power of (Poetic) Promises 1 Truth and Reconciliation: The Case of “the Monster Brandt” Haudenosaunee Diplomacy and Transatlantic Politics Gertrude of Wyoming and the Diplomatic Record Condoling with Campbell “Restorying” Gertrude of Wyoming From Campbell to Caledonia, from London to Land Back Lane 2 Romanticism and Removal: Elias Boudinot, Felicia Hemans, and the Cherokee Phoenix Newspaper Diplomacy Move or Be Moved: Hemans and the Poetics of Cherokee Diplomacy Hemans and the Diplomatic Voice of Women 3 Digressive Diplomacy: George Copway and Byron’s Lines on the Rhine Touching the Pen: Ojibwe Diplomacy in the Nineteenth Century Copway and Ojibwe Diplomacy Byron’s Rhine as Diplomatic Artefact 4 “Always Build a Fence around the King’s Word”: Sol Plaatje and The Deserted Village Plaatje and Chiefly Diplomacy Native Life in Auburn Phonetics, Proverbs, Petitions, Poems 5 Petitions and Repetitions: Rēweti Kōhere and the Ashes of Byron and Macaulay “He Iwi Tahi Tatou”: The Treaty of Waitangi and Patterns of Diplomacy “A Marae on Paper”: Kōhere and the Forms of Māori Diplomacy Byron, Macaulay, and the Uses of History Conclusion: Coming to Terms with Romantic Poetry The Flowers that Grow in the “Daffodil Gap” Diplomacy Is Not a Metaphor Coda Bibliography Index