Ponteach, or the Savages of America

by Tiffany Potter

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  INDEX

  Addison, Joseph: Cato, 28–9

  Amherst, Jeffrey, 9–10, 30, 86, 146

  Anderson, Marilyn, 38

  Bhabha, Homi, 34–5, 41, 47

  Butler, Judith, 49–50

  Campbell, John, 6

  Castillo, Susan, 34, 39, 41

  Chekitan (Ponteach), 6, 26, 30, 41–2, 45–8, 52

  and Creole identity, 47

  and feminized Indigeneity 45–7, 50

  as conventional hero, 26, 30, 200

  Colley, Linda, 32, 37–8, 48–9

  Concise Account of North America, 3, 5, 17, 18–19, 33, 66, 110, 163–90, 201–5

  Covenant Chain, 6, 8, 10, 14, 70, 106

  Croghan, George, 8, 9, 91, 126

  Cuneo, John, 4, 6

  Diary of the Siege of Detroit: authorship of, 19

  Dowd, Gregory Evans, 8, 11, 12, 21–2, 45, 75, 135

  Ellison, Julie, 28–9, 42, 46–7

  Farquhar, George: The Recruiting Officer, 26–7

  Five Nations, 8–10, 88, 166–79, 185

  political gift giving, 9–10

  French and Indian War, 3–4, 8–9, 33, 53

  French Priest (Ponteach), 12, 26, 31, 45, 48

  French settlers (habitants), 9, 24, 25, 196–7

  Gage, Thomas, 14, 20

  Gay, John: The Beggar’s Opera, 26

  Gladwin, Henry, 14, 23–4, 32, 75

  Godfrey, Thomas, 3

  Great Lakes Nations, 6, 8–10, 22–3, 40, 70, 114, 185–6

  Greenblatt, Stephen, 4–5

  Hiller, Lejaren, 4

  Hurons, 24, 87–8, 159, 166, 179–80, 185, 195–7

  Indians, North American Indian Nations: English knowledge of, 36–8, 48–9

  familial metaphors 50–1

  laws regarding 67, 70, 72–3, 115

  leadership models 21–2

  Rogers on, 163–90

  beliefs, 169–71

  bodies, 167–9

  childrearing 168

  good nature, 169, 171

  governance, 171–3, 176–7, 179

  idleness of men, 168

  languages, 182–3

  medicine, 183–4

  origins, 185

  prisoners, 177–8

  private property, 33

  war, 171–9

  women, 168–9. See also Five Nations; Great Lakes Nations; Hurons; Mohawks; Senecas

  Indigeneity, 5, 48

  and allegory, 5

  eighteenth-century ideas of, 4–5

  Johnson, William, 6, 9, 10, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 25, 37, 70

  Journal of Pontiac’s Conspiracy, 10–13, 21, 23, 75, 113, 118, 191–7
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  Krasner, James, 3, 4, 38–9

  Loomba, Ania, 36, 44

  Maycomb, Alexander, 4

  Middleton, Richard, 11, 21

  Mohawks, 6–7, 40–1, 48, 88, 103, 166–7, 182

  ‘Hendrick Peters’ (Theyangoguin) 7, 94

  Monelia (Ponteach), 43–50, 52

  as allegory for America, 44–6

  as allegory for Indigenous peoples, 34, 43–50, 52

  attempted rape of, 31, 45

  distrust of English and language, 41

  as narrative lynchpin, 47–8, 52

  as typical heroine, 26

  Morsberger, Robert, 4

  Navarre, Robert, 10–12. See also Journal of Pontiac’s Conspiracy

  Neolin, the Delaware Prophet, 10–13, 73, 118, 191–6

  Nester, William, 8, 13, 63, 86

  Nevins, Alan, 5, 6, 15, 120

  Nussbaum, Felicity, 49

  Ottawas, 22–5, 40–1, 149–50, 180–2, 195–7

  Oroonoko, 30–1, 33

  Parkman, Francis, 6, 13, 21

  Peckham, Howard, 5, 8, 11, 21–2

  Philip (Ponteach), 41–2, 46–8, 52, 85

  Ponteach (play), 31–54, 61–161

  and allegory, 33–4, 43–50

  as art, 4

  critique of colonial practices, 35–6, 42–4, 49, 51

  ending, 53–4

  English, representation of, 39–40, 42–3, 52–3

  familial metaphors in, 50–2

  and gender, 32, 43–50, 52–3, 105, 126

  as history, 6–8

  historical context for, 8–15

  and language, 40–2

  and mimicry, 34–5, 47

  music in, 4, 26–7, 136

  and national identities, 32–5, 39, 41–2, 48–52

  and noble savage, 36, 38

  possible co-authors, 5–6

  publication of, xiii–ix

  and race, 32–5, 39, 43–50

  reception of, 6, 26, 199–201

  and revolutionary politics, 3, 15, 38–9

  Shakespeare allusions in, 26, 27, 29–30

  staging of, 4

  and theatrical convention, 26–31

  tragic genre, 28–9. See also individual characters by name