Archive for the ‘United States’ Category
Gelya Frank and Carole Goldberg, Defying the Odds: The Tule River Tribe’s Struggle for Sovereignty, Yale University Press, 2010. via Turtletalk An anthropologist and a legal scholar combine expertise in this innovative book, deploying the history of one California tribe—the Tule River Tribe—in a definitive study of indigenous sovereignty from earliest contact through the current […]
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Mark Rifkin, Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space, Cambridge University Press, 2009. The expansion of the U.S. in the antebellum period relied on the claim that the nation’s boundaries were both self-evident and dependent on the consent of those enclosed within them. While the removal of American Indians and racism toward former […]
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Joe Singer, ‘The Original Acquisition of Property: From Conquest and Possession to Democracy and Equal Opportunity”, Indian Law Journal, forthcoming. via TurtleTalk Abstract: First possession is said to be the root of title but the first possession theory suffers from two major defects. First, land titles in the United States originate in acts of conquest, […]
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Larry J. Zimmerman, ‘”White People will Believe Anything!””: Worrying about Authenticity, Museum Audiences, and Working in Native American-focused Museums’, Museum Anthropology 33, 1 (2010) via indigenouspeoplesissues.com Abstract: The core argument of this opinion is that in museums focused on Native Americans, staff members must abandon colonial and stereotypic views about Native Americans. They also must […]
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Katherine Ellinghaus, ‘Biological Absorption and Genocide: A Comparison of Indigenous Assimilation Policies in the United States and Australia’, Genocide Studies and Prevention 4, 1 (April 2009): 59–79. Abstract: This article examines biological absorption (the imagined process by which indigenous identity would disappear through interracial sexual liaisons) and its relationship to the assimilation policies of the […]
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Arion T. Mayes, ‘These Bones are Read: The Science and Politics of Ancient Native America’, The American Indian Quarterly 34, 2 (2010). In lieu of an abstract, here is part of the introduction: Each Native American culture and nation has differing beliefs as to the treatment of human remains. Some are adamantly opposed to any […]
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Some highlights from the awesome blog zunguzungu, which among other things includes snippets of his research on Kenyan history, framed within a transnational perspective. On “Unsettled Labor”: Putting Africans to work — breaking and training them to use the tools of agriculture — is almost literally the same process as domesticating African oxen; note the […]
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cleveland indians
No race, creed or religion should endure the ridicule faced by Native Americans today. – National Congress of American Indians. Another hat tip to Mat A.
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This from the latest edition of Native South, courtesy of IndigenousPeoplesIssues.com: Malinda Maynor Lowery, ‘Indians, Southerns, and Americans: Race, Tribe and Nation during “Jim Crow”‘: After the Civil War, Southerners of all races struggled to resolve questions of citizenship, opportunity, political autonomy, and freedom in a drastically changed economic environment. The story of Southern African […]
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call for papers: anzlhs law and history conference: owning the past – whose past? whose present?
From their website: The use and study of the past is constantly being refashioned and reinterpreted to construct meaning in the present, imparting understandings of a common but chaotic humanity. Because everyone and no one ‘owns’ history, the ownership of historical events and the right to speak of them remains deeply contested. What are the […]
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