{"id":46696,"date":"2016-04-24T00:38:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T00:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46696"},"modified":"2016-09-25T23:31:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T23:31:35","slug":"real-native-genius-how-an-ex-slave-and-a-white-mormon-became-famous-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46696","title":{"rendered":"Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

University of North Carolina Press<\/a>
\nSeptember 2015
\n270 pages
\n8 halftones, 1 map, notes, bibl., index
\n6.125 x 9.25
\nPaper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2443-3<\/p>\n

Angela Pulley Hudson<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of History
\nTexas A&M University<\/em><\/p>\n

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In the mid-1840s, Warner McCary<\/a>, an ex-slave from Mississippi<\/a>, claimed a new identity for himself, traveling around the nation as Choctaw<\/a> performer “Okah Tubbee.” He soon married Lucy Stanton, a divorced white Mormon<\/a> woman from New York, who likewise claimed to be an Indian and used the name “Laah Ceil.” Together, they embarked on an astounding, sometimes scandalous journey across the United States and Canada, performing as American Indians for sectarian worshippers, theater audiences, and patent medicine<\/a> seekers.<\/strong> Along the way, they used widespread notions of “Indianness” to disguise their backgrounds, justify their marriage, and make a living. In doing so, they reflected and shaped popular ideas about what it meant to be an American Indian in the mid-nineteenth century.<\/p>\n

Weaving together histories of slavery, Mormonism, popular culture, and American medicine, Angela Pulley Hudson offers a fascinating tale of ingenuity, imposture, and identity. While illuminating the complex relationship between race, religion, and gender in nineteenth-century North America, Hudson reveals how the idea of the \u201cIndian\u201d influenced many of the era\u2019s social movements. Through the remarkable lives of Tubbee and Ceil, Hudson uncovers both the complex and fluid nature of antebellum identities and the place of “Indianness” at the very heart of American culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians University of North Carolina Press September 2015 270 pages 8 halftones, 1 map, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2443-3 Angela Pulley Hudson, Associate Professor of History Texas A&M University In the mid-1840s, Warner McCary, an ex-slave from Mississippi, claimed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,459,8,17,3015,6462,820,6940,20],"tags":[25053,25052,23621,23623,23622,23626,23627,667,23624,23625],"class_list":["post-46696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-canada","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-native-americans","category-passing-2","category-religion","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-angela-hudson","tag-angela-p-hudson","tag-angela-pulley-hudson","tag-laah-ceil","tag-lucy-stanton","tag-mormonism","tag-okah-tubbee","tag-university-of-north-carolina-press","tag-warner-mccary","tag-william-mccary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49219,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46696\/revisions\/49219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}