Assimilation is confronting: Katherine Solomonson, ‘Confronting Assimilation: The Interplay Between Očéti Ŝakówiŋ and Settler Spatialities in Dakota Territory, 1883–1888’, in Charles L. Davis, Kathryn E. Holliday, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury (eds),Rewriting American Architecture: Contesting the Myths of National Culture, University of Texas Press, 2026, pp. 255-272 | settler colonial studies blog

Assimilation is confronting: Katherine Solomonson, ‘Confronting Assimilation: The Interplay Between Očéti Ŝakówiŋ and Settler Spatialities in Dakota Territory, 1883–1888’, in Charles L. Davis, Kathryn E. Holliday, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury (eds),Rewriting American Architecture: Contesting the Myths of National Culture, University of Texas Press, 2026, pp. 255-272

09Aug26

Excerpt: On September 4, 1883, three hundred Lakhˇóta and Dakhˇóta people from the Standing Rock Agency of the Great Sioux Reservation rode into Mandan, Dakota Territory, a boomtown adjacent to the Northern Pacific Railroad just west of the Missouri River (fig. 14.1). With them were the US Indian agent James McLaughlin, who left an account of this event; and the Huŋkpaphˇa Lakhˇóta Chief Sitting Bull (Thˇath ˇáŋka Íyotake), who seven years earlier had been one of the prime movers behind the battle that defeated the US Seventh Cavalry at Pezi Sla (Greasy Grass, a.k.a. Little Bighorn). Leaving their horses behind, the travelers commenced the long wait for their train.1 As they waited, Pullman cars filled with European and American “ladies and gentlemen” …

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