Sensitive Negotiations: Indigenous Diplomacy and British Romantic Poetry

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