“Must Not Their Languages Be Savage and Barbarous Like Them?”: Philology, Indian Removal, and Race Science
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sean P. Harvey
Journal of the Early Republic, vol. 30, no. 4, Winter, 2010, pp. 505-532
Description
Looks at the linguistic precursor to biological essentialism, evidence of white philologists’ reliance on Native tutors and discusses why the federal government began moving toward assimilation.