Archive for the ‘United States’ Category
I am the corn, the beans, the squash, the sweet potatoes, and tomatoes on your dinner table. I am the gratitude you express every fourth Thursday in November. […] I am the Indian in your living room. I am the Great Law of Peace. I am the plan for the U.S. Constitution given you by […]
Filed under: literature, United States, Website | Closed
Podcast/interview: Jean M. O’Brien on the Historical Erasure of Indians in New England, appearing on Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond.
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Jens-Uwe Guettel, ‘From the Frontier to German South-West Africa: German Colonialism, Indians and American Westward Expansion’, Modern Intellectual History 7, 3 (2010) This article argues that positive perceptions of American westward expansion played a major (and so far overlooked) role both for the domestic German debate about the necessity of overseas expansion and for concrete […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
Ethan Davis, ‘An Administrative Trail of Tears: Indian Removal’, American Journal of Legal History 50 (2010). Abstract In the early nineteenth century, the federal government uprooted the so-called five “Civilized Tribes” of the South and sent them westward to modern day Oklahoma. This article rediscovers the long-forgotten administrative system that guided the removal of one […]
Filed under: law, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Carolyn B. Ramsey, ‘Domestic Violence and State Intervention in the American West and Australia, 1860-1930’, Indiana Law Journal 86 (2011) Abstract: This article calls into question stereotypical assumptions about the presumed lack of state intervention in the family and the patriarchal violence of Anglo-American frontier societies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By […]
Filed under: Australia, law, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Jessica R. Cattelino, ‘Anthropologies of the United States’, Annual Review of Anthropology 39 (2010). This article reviews recent research in sociocultural anthropology that has been conducted in and about the United States. I show that anthropologists of the United States have been concerned to locate the anthropological field in three ways: spatial investigations of region, […]
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Matthew L. M. Fletcher, ‘Consent and Resistance: The Modern Struggle between American Indian Tribes and the United States’, MSU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-16 (2010) Abstract After a few years of late 19th century confusion, the United States Supreme Court held definitively in 1898 that the United States Constitution does not bind Indian tribes. […]
Filed under: law, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Stephen Allen and Alexandra Xanthaki (ed.), Reflections on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2010) The adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations General Assembly on 13 September 2007 was acclaimed as a major success for the United Nations system given the […]
Filed under: Africa, Australia, Canada, Hawaii, Latin America, law, New Zealand, Pacific, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
Andrea Smith, ‘Decolonization in Unexpected Places: Native Evangelicalism and the Rearticulation of Mission’, American Indian Quarterly 62, 3 (2010). Abstract In Native studies, many scholars propose “decolonization” as a guiding principle for Native scholarship and activism. This work generally presumes a non-Christian framework for decolonization, because the imposition of Christianity within Native communities is understood […]
Filed under: postcolonialism, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
American Quarterly 62, 3 (2010). Special Issue: Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies. Edited by Paul Lai and Lindsey Claire Smith.
Filed under: Empire, Hawaii, Latin America, New Zealand, Pacific, United States | Closed
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