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The imprinting of a settler domination: Shelby Johnson, ‘Decolonial Methods and Early Indigenous Archives’, Early American Literature, 61, 2, 2026, pp. 389-406

21Jul26

Excerpt: Conversations across early American and early Indigenous studies—fields historically preoccupied with different questions, canons, and frameworks—have recently engaged in difficult methodological questions: How might we continue to reconceptualize the “archive” (or the “text”) to move beyond the codex, what Choctaw scholar Megan Peiser calls a “colonizing institution . . . predicated on written and pictorial knowledge transference and a dominance over any and all other forms of information sharing” (523; italics original)? How might Indigenous forms of “information sharing” exist beyond colonial technologies, such as print? Is it possible to recover Indigenous traditions that may exist in these forms, but without fetishizing the recovery of “originary” or “authentic” Indigenous knowledge-ways within communities or the interiority of individual Native people? And finally, how might Indigenous communicative practices support ongoing language revitalization projects and resurgent tribal sovereignty?


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