On the Mysterious 1831 Cherokee Manuscript or Jisdu Fixes John Locke’s Two Treatises of Civil Government

Authors

  • Brian Burkhart California State University, Northridge

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/tm.372

Keywords:

Native American, Cherokee, John Locke, Trickster, Red Reading

Abstract

This article imagines that the Cherokee Rabbit Trickster, Jisdu, got his hands on the orginal manuscript of John Locke's Two Treatises on Civil Government.  What is presented here is Jisdu's rewritting and reimaging from with a Cherokee context the ideas of Locke's foundational work on popular sovereignty and private property.

Author Biography

Brian Burkhart, California State University, Northridge

Director/Associate Professor

American Indian Studies

Philosophy

Phd Philosophy Indiana University, Bloomington (2008)

Downloads

Published

2018-04-25

How to Cite

Burkhart, B. (2018). On the Mysterious 1831 Cherokee Manuscript or Jisdu Fixes John Locke’s Two Treatises of Civil Government. Transmotion, 4(1), 40–76. https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/tm.372

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2018): Red Readings - guest edited by Scott Andrews

Section

Red Readings

License

Copyright (c) 2018 Brian Burkhart

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

    1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

 

    1. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

 

  1. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).