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Imperialism, 5 ;

anthropology and, 60 ;

ethnocriticism as, 5 -7

Indiana University conference on linguistics, 55

Indian Civil Rights Act (1968), 146 , 148

Indian Removal Act of 1830, 132 -145, 151 -152;

antiphrasis in, 144 ;

aporia in, 144 ;

catachresis in, 144 ;

Cherokee response to, 29 -30, 141 -142, 149 -163, 192 ;

de Tocqueville on, 141 n. 5, 143 -144;

image of Indian in, 144 ;

irony in, 141 , 142 , 143 , 160 ;

oxymoron in, 144 ;

paradoxes in, 137 -138, 139 , 140 -141;

as paternalistic, 142 -143;

as tragedy, 140 -141, 161 -162

Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, 145 -146, 148

Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, 146 , 148

Interdisciplinarity, 32 -34, 35 , 36

Interminacy principle (Heisenberg), 75 , 85

Irony, 9 , 131 , 136 , 214 ;

aporitic, 99 -100;

Boas used, 88 -89, 94 , 97 , 98 -99;

in Cherokee discourse, 160 -161, 162 ;

Clifford used, 111 -112, 121 -122;

in ethnographic conjuncturalism, 112 ;

figures/troops of (see Antiphrasis;

Aporia; Catachresis; Oxymoron);

in Indian Removal Act, 141 , 142 , 143 , 160 ;

in science, 86 ;

in sense of self, 212 -213;

scepticism expressed by, 86 ;

as trope of modernism, 86 -87, 88

Iroquois, 41