Approaching Whiteness: Acknowledging Native Americans As Scholars of Reversal in 19th Century Autobiographical Writings

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Acknowledgments
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1 Introduction
	1.1 “The White Man’s Indian”
		1.1.1 “The Indian and the White Other”
		1.1.2 Along the Stony Road towards Reconciliation
		1.1.3 Redefining a Myth – Embedding Reconciliation in
 Education
	1.2 Reversing the Gaze – “The Indian’s White Man”
		1.2.1 Indigenous Testimonies – On the Trails of the White Man
	1.3 Scholars of Reversal ‚avant la lettre‘
2 The Emergence of the Color White
	2.1 Historical Development – Creating a Myth
	2.2 The Invisible White Man
	2.3 Using White Ink – Native American Literary Transparency
		2.3.1 Authentic Voices – the Writing “Indians”
3 Theoretical Framework – Critical Race Theory (Tribal Critical Race Theory) and Whiteness Studies
	3.1 Understanding Race – Manifold Perspectives
	3.2 Resisting the Cliché
4 The Voice of Color
	4.1 A Rereading of Sarah Winnemucca\'s ‚Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims‘ (1883)
		4.1.1 “My White Brothers Have Come at Last!”
		4.1.2 Approaching and Understanding White Culture
		4.1.3 Collecting Experiences – Encountering the White Man
		4.1.4 Winnemucca and the Indian Agents
		4.1.5 Winnemucca and the Military
	4.2 A Rereading of Zitkala- Ša’s ‚American Indian Stories‘ (1921)
		4.2.1 Native American Residential Boarding Schools
		4.2.2 Closing the Educational Gap
		4.2.3 Zitkala Ša’s Counterstory
		4.2.4 The White Man’s Land of Milk and Honey
	4.3 A Rereading of Charles Alexander Eastman\'s ‚Indian Boyhood‘ (1902) ‚and From the Deep Woods to Civilization‘ (1916)
		4.3.1 Into the Woods – Discovering Native American Territory
		4.3.2 The Mysterious “Pale-Faces”
		4.3.3 Towards Civilization – Embracing White Culture
5 Conclusion
6 Works Cited
	6.1 Primary Sources
	6.2 Secondary Sources
German summary / Deutsche Zusammenfassung
Academic resume / Akademischer Lebenslauf
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