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Native American Studies
April 26, 2016
Informed Power
Communication in the Early American South
Alejandra Dubcovsky
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Andrew Epstein
Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South (Harvard University Press, 2016) maps the intricate, intersecting channels of information exchange in the early American South, exploring how people in the …
Native American Studies
November 10, 2015
Peacemakers
The Iroquois, the United States, and the Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794
Michael L. Oberg
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Andrew Epstein
On November 11, 2015, leaders and citizens of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy--Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk and Tuscarora--will gather in the small lakeside city of Canandaigua, New …
Native American Studies
October 22, 2015
The White Possessive
Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty
Aileen Moreton-Robinson
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Andrew Epstein
Owning property. Being property. Becoming propertyless. These are three themes of white possession that structure Aileen Moreton-Robinson's brilliant new inquiry into the dynamics of race and Indigeneity in "postcolonizing" societies …
Native American Studies
August 17, 2015
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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Andrew Epstein
When Howard Zinn published A People's History of the United States in 1980, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz was thrilled. "I used it as a text immediately," she remembers. Comrades in the movement …
Native American Studies
May 18, 2015
Native American Whalemen and the World
Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race
Nancy Shoemaker
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Andrew Epstein
For as long as Herman Melville's Moby Dick has been a staple of the American literary canon, one element often goes unnoticed. The ship commanded by the monomanacial Ahab on …
Native American Studies
April 26, 2015
Power Lines
Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest
Andrew Needham
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Andrew Epstein
Last month, VICE NEWS released a short documentary about the Navajo Nation called "Cursed by Coal." The images and stories confirm the title. "Seems like everything's just dying out here," …
Native American Studies
March 5, 2015
A Generation Removed
The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World
Margaret D. Jacobs
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Andrew Epstein
In 2012, a young Cherokee girl named Veronica became famous. The widespread and often coercive adoption and fostering of Indigenous children by non-Native families has long been known, discussed, and …
Native American Studies
December 9, 2014
Remembering the Modoc War
Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence
Boyd Cothran
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Andrew Epstein
If George Armstrong Custer had kept off of Greasy Grass that June day in 1875, Vine Deloria, Jr.'s manifesto might well have been called "Canby Died For Your Sins." The …
Native American Studies
October 21, 2014
West of the Revolution
An Uncommon History of 1776
Claudio Saunt
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Andrew Epstein
Few years in U.S. history call to mind such immediate stock images as 1776. Powdered wigs. Founding fathers. Red coats. And if asked to place this assembly of objects and …
Native American Studies
August 21, 2014
Settler Common Sense
Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance
Mark Rifkin
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Andrew Epstein
In Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance (University of Minnesota Press, 2014), Mark Rifkin, a professor at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and incoming president …
Native American Studies
June 3, 2014
The Red Atlantic
American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000-1927
Jace Weaver
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Andrew Epstein
For all the incisive work published in Native American and Indigenous studies over the past decades, troubling historical myths still circulate in both academic and popular discourse. One of the …
Native American Studies
November 23, 2013
Native American DNA
Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
Kim TallBear
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Andrew Epstein
Is genetic testing a new national obsession? From reality TV shows to the wild proliferation of home testing kits, there's ample evidence it might just be. And among the most …
Native American Studies
October 1, 2013
In Search of First Contact
The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery
Annette Kolodny
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Andrew Epstein
We all know the song. "In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue..." And now, thankfully, we all know the controversy; celebrating a perpetrator of genocide might say a few unpleasant …
Native American Studies
September 2, 2013
Mark My Words
Native Women Mapping Our Nations
Mishuana Goeman
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Andrew Epstein
The maps drawn up by early settlers to plot their inexorable expansion were not the first representations of North American space. Colonialism does not simply impose a new reality, after …
Native American Studies
July 8, 2013
The Seeds We Planted
Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School
Noelani Goodyear-Kapua
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Andrew Epstein
"School was a place that devalued who we are as Indigenous people," says Noelani Goodyear-Kapua. These were institutions -- at least since white settlers deposed the Indigenous government in the …
Native American Studies
May 13, 2013
Domestic Subjects
Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature
Beth H. Piatote
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Andrew Epstein
The suspension of the so-called "Indian Wars" did not signal colonialism's end, only a different battlefield. "The calvary man was supplanted--or, rather, supplemented--by the field matron, the Hotchkiss by the …
Native American Studies
April 1, 2013
On Records
Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory
Andrew Newman
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Andrew Epstein
Can the spoken word be a reliable record of past events? For many Native people, the answer is unequivocally affirmative. Histories of family, tribe, and nation, narratives of origin and …
Native American Studies
February 4, 2013
This Indian Country
American Indian Activists and the Place They Made
Frederick E. Hoxie
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Andrew Epstein
Deploying hashtags and hunger strikes, flash mobs and vigils, the Idle No More movement of First Nation peoples in Canada is reaching a global audience. While new technology and political …
Native American Studies
January 10, 2013
The Indian Great Awakening
Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America
Linford Fisher
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Andrew Epstein
Just east of the Norwich-New London Turnpike in Uncasville, Connecticut, stands the Mohegan Congregational Church. By most accounts, it's little different than the thousands of white-steepled structures dotting the New …
Native American Studies
December 13, 2012
Crooked Paths to Allotment
The Fight over Federal Indian Policy after Civil War
Joseph Genetin-Pilawa
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Andrew Epstein
Despite what you may have learned in undergraduate surveys or high school textbooks, the nineteenth century was not one long and inexorable march toward Indian dispossession -- the real story …
Native American Studies
November 20, 2012
Decolonizing Museums
Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums
Amy Lonetree
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Andrew Epstein
"Museums can be very painful sites for Native peoples," writes Amy Lonetree, associate professor of history at UC-Santa Cruz and a citizen of the Ho Chunk Nation, "as they are …
Native American Studies
September 9, 2012
Murder State
California's Native American Genocide, 1846-1873
Brendan C. Lindsay
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Andrew Epstein
Brendan C. Lindsay's impressive if deeply troubling new book centers on two concepts long considered anathema: democracy and genocide. One is an ideal of self-government, the other history's most unspeakable …
Native American Studies
June 20, 2012
Reimagining Indian Country
Native American Migration and Identity in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
Nicolas Rosenthal
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Andrew Epstein
The term "Indian Country" evokes multiple themes. Encompassing legal, geographic, and ideological dimensions, "Indian Country" is commonly understood to be a space outside of or surrounded by the boundaries of …
Native American Studies
May 23, 2012
The Only One Living to Tell
The Autobiography of a Yavapai Indian
Gregory McNamee
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Andrew Epstein
Late in 1872, as the United States sought to clear the newly incorporated Southwest of its indigenous inhabitants, a company under Capt. James Burns came upon an encampment of Kwevkepayas …
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