The Many Lives of Justiniano Roxas: The Centenarian Fantasy in American History and Memory

Authors document the life the Californian Indigenous man purported to be 121 years old and "last of his race" in 1873 and contemplate what can be learned from investigating the true stories of Indigenous centenarians; discusses the discourse of extinction surrounding centenarians, and the role it plays in the imagination of settler culture.
Author/Creator
Boyd Cothran
Martin Rizzo
Open Access
No
Primary Source
No
Citation
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 168-204
Publication Date
2018
Resource Type
Articles -- Scholarly, peer reviewed
Format
Text -- PDF
Language
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