Ariel Zatarain Tumbaga, Adam Spry, and Kirby Brown situate their studies within specific Indigenous contexts that affirm the continued vibrancy of Indigenous peoples and lifeways and the importance of story to self-determination and decolonial futures. Read in conversation, the texts baldly demonstrate that the eradication of Indigenous nations was a central tenet of Indian policy across Mexico, the United States, and Canada in the long twentieth century and moreover that literature played an important role in these projects. The shape of these colonial efforts varied, but there is disturbing consistency in North American colonial states’ vigilant attacks on Indigenous self-determination and reliance on displacing living Indigenous peoples and reifying fictionalized “Indians.” While much has been written about nineteenth-century colonial cultural production in this regard, there has been less scholarly attention on the significance of twentieth-century literature. More importantly, however, Tumbaga, Spry, and Brown deftly demonstrate the ways Indigenous nations endure...
Yaqui Indigeneity: Epistemology, Diaspora, and the Construction of Yoeme Identity
Our War Paint Is Writers’ Ink: Anishinaabe Literary Transnationalism
Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Cherokee Writing, 1907–1970
Kathryn Walkiewicz is assistant professor of nineteenth-century American literature and culture at the University of California San Diego. She coedited The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing after Removal with Geary Hobson and Janet McAdams (2010), and her work has appeared in NAIS: Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a book manuscript about Indigeneity, territory, and states’ rights in the nineteenth century.
Kathryn Walkiewicz; Yaqui Indigeneity: Epistemology, Diaspora, and the Construction of Yoeme Identity
Our War Paint Is Writers’ Ink: Anishinaabe Literary Transnationalism
Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Cherokee Writing, 1907–1970. American Literature 1 March 2021; 93 (1): 151–153. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8878578
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