The Story of Colonialism, or Rethinking the Ox-Hide Purchase in Native North America and Beyond

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2013

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University of Illinois Press for the American Folklore Society

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In this paper I offer a comparative assessment of the ox-hide purchase narrative (tale type AT 2400, ATU 927C*; Motif K185.1) in Native North America. Drawing on my own fieldwork and the beginnings of a historic-geographic treatment, I consider the story from the perspective of work on historical consciousness in Native North America and treat it as an opportunity to establish a link between folkloristics and other fields concerned with interpreting the legacies of colonialism.

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Jason Baird Jackson (2013) The Story of Colonialism, or Rethinking the Ox-Hide Purchase in Native North America and Beyond. Journal of American Folklore. 126(499):31-54.

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Published as Jason Baird Jackson (2013) The Story of Colonialism, or Rethinking the Ox-Hide Purchase in Native North America and Beyond. Journal of American Folklore. 126(499):31-54. © 2013 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois."

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