Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2019, pp. 116-134
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Author uses a transnational framework for engaging with Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel; argues that this approach allows the reader to see similarities between Indigenous people in North America and other colonized nations, and to compare settler-colonial and colonial contexts.
Book review of: The Color of the Land: Race, Nation and the Politics of Land Ownership in Oklahoma: 1832-1929 by David A. Chang.
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Oral History Review, vol. 37, no. 2, Summer/Fall, 2010, pp. 170-190
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Looks at written documents and oral recollections to uncover the experiences of Indigenous soldiers and their contributions in World War II, the Northern Territory, and Australian history.
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 6, no. 1, 2019, pp. 157-164
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Author, Brooks, discusses new book, Our Beloved Kin, with interviewer, Cohen. Brooks's book offers an Indigenous Perspective on King Philip's War, its scope, and its impact.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 44, no. 2, Spring, 2010, pp. 219-229
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Book reviews of: Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada by J.R. Miller.
Home is the Hunter: The James Bay Cree and Their Land by Hans M.
American Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 3, September 2010, pp. 639-661
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Looks at how Todd Downing appropriates and refigures Mexico's Indigenous history and culture to reveal evidence of the modern Indigenous people obscured by Indigenismo discourse. The article also anticipates the anticolonial discourses of the American Indian civil rights movement.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 2, Spring, May 04, 2019, pp. 179-209
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The author works to recontextualize the life of Colonel George Laird Shoup illustrating his role and responsibility in the Sand Creek Massacre (November 29, 1864), an event which led to the deaths of 230 Cheyenne and Arapaho people.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 56, no. 1, 2019, pp. 52-76
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The author examines evidence from archaeological sites and the artifacts from these sites in order to investigate in further detail the nature of the Inuit occupation of the Lower North Shore in what is now Quebec.
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 6, no. 1, 2019, pp. 149-156
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Literary criticism article, discusses how in this narrative “the ethics of land” is the central focus of The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River; notes that this focus on land and ethics presents a different historical narrative than we are generally taught about Six Nations
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 4, Fall, 2019, pp. 379-407
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Author asserts that in settler-colonial contexts, Holocaust memory tends to obscure historic colonial violence; cites the 2017 unveiling of the National Holocaust Monument (NHM) in Ottawa, noting that the narrative surrounding the NHM erases Indigenous peoples from the land and indigenizes the settler state.
Native Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 2, 2010, pp. 59-93
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Looks at archival evidence of Shab-eh-nay's life and experiences to challenge the racial stereotyping utilized by Chief Justice John Marshall regarding American Indian law and policy.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 4, Fall, 2019, pp. 331-340
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Author explores the contested historical memory of violent engagement between the Unites States government and Indigenous peoples in the mid to late 1800s, and how those narratives have contributed to the idea of American innocence in relation to the displacement genocide of Indigenous peoples.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 3, Summer, 2019, pp. 249-280
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Authors re-examine the discourse surrounding the life and death of the Kiowa leader Satanta; discuss how even contemporary perceptions of Indigenous historical figures are rooted in colonial narratives of conquest which sought to diminish the humanity of Indigenous peoples and extinguish Indigenous title in favour of white settler expansion.