Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss Vanishing Indian
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Abandonment
- Absence
- Absence as disguise
- Absence as loss
- Absence as presence
- Absence of sound
- Aloneness
- Attempt to find substitute
- Blame
- Burning a town
- Capture as loss
- Deracination
- Disappearance
- Kinlessness
- Livestock
- Losing vs never having
- Loss of animal companion
- Loss of innocence
- Loss of object
- Material
- Men
- Military defeat
- Missing
- Money|Wealth
- Of loved one
- Over time
- Quest to recover
- Racial
- Red necks
- Renewal
- Separation
- Substitute
- War
Tagged Events
Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous | Place›Indian mound
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Government | Group Mentality›Communal story | History›Civil War | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Deracination | Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Appearance›Diminishment / fading | Community›Local legends | Naming›Renaming | Past | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Supernatural›Folklore | Supernatural›Place | Texts›Novel
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends
Environment: Time of Year›Winter
Cultural Issues: Food›Cannibalism | Law
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Legal›Record keeping
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Objects›Iron box | Texts›Civic records
Cultural Issues: History›Indian Removal | Progress›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Texts›Letter of protest
Relationships: Marital›Interracial
Environment: Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Searching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And race | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian
Cultural Issues: Government›As source of money | Progress›Building structure | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Naming›Named for historical figure
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Place›Plantation | Place›Sawmill
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Savagism | History›Indian Removal | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Native American stereotype | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Ownership | Technology›Steam locomotive
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Character›Persistence | Exile›Indian Removal | Past›Past in present | Time›Future
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Naming›Using Indians as names
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American | Ritual›Initiation | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Animals›Deer | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Story-telling
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Environment: Time of Day›Pre-dawn | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Hunting›Turkey hunting | Verbal›Listen
Cultural Issues: Race›Chickasaw | Race›Mixed race
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Animals›Turkey | Past›Old days | Story-telling
Relationships: Ancestral
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Naming›Using Indians as names
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | History›Indian Removal | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Indian removal
Cultural Issues: History›Indian Removal
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian
Cultural Issues: History›Colonization | Progress›Ironies of
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Exile›Dispossession
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Interaction, Social›Frontier life
Cultural Issues: History›Colonization | History›Frontier outlawry | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Interracial›White-black | Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Extramarital
Cultural Issues: Progress›As loss | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Money›Social force
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›LeFlore, Greenwood | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Cultural Issues: Government›State capital | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Chaos/Order›Creating order