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Most people who have spent time delving into Seneca Iroquois records have come across intriguing references to witchcraft right into the twentieth century. Therefore, the idea of a book that unpacks witchcraft and Seneca life is a welcome... more
Most people who have spent time delving into Seneca Iroquois records have come across intriguing references to witchcraft right into the twentieth century. Therefore, the idea of a book that unpacks witchcraft and Seneca life is a welcome one. Here we find useful information on witchcraft ...
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- History, American History, Sociology, Art
This article unites Indigenous women’s voices from oral histories and the archives to connect sexual violence and colonialism and to advance historical discourse on rematriation. Sexual violence, rape, and internment intersected in the... more
This article unites Indigenous women’s voices from oral histories and the archives to connect sexual violence and colonialism and to advance historical discourse on rematriation. Sexual violence, rape, and internment intersected in the Alaskan territory during the Second World War. From 1941 to 1944, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) employed the physician H.O.K. Bauer to work for the Alaska Indian Service. This physician’s power to enact sexual violence came from his position as an employee for the BIA—an institution that had a history of intimate colonial ties with Indigenous communities. Utilizing Native American and Indigenous Studies methods and ethics, making transparent the relationship between a scholar and elders in the community, and purposefully uncovering some silences while maintaining others allows this analysis of historical sexual violence to prioritize an Indigenous woman elder who advocated for the telling of a story of sexual violence. In doing so, it identifies ...
... According to the findings of the preeminent quantitative historians of western violenceRoger D. McGrath, David Peterson del Mar, Clare V. McKanna, Jr., Eric Monkkonen, John Boessenecker, Kevin J. Mullen, Sherburne F. Cook, Lawrence... more
... According to the findings of the preeminent quantitative historians of western violenceRoger D. McGrath, David Peterson del Mar, Clare V. McKanna, Jr., Eric Monkkonen, John Boessenecker, Kevin J. Mullen, Sherburne F. Cook, Lawrence M. Friedman, and Robert V. Percival ...
The Texas borderlands have come to be increasingly important in the historical literature and in public opinion for the way that the region shapes national thought on race, borders, and ethnicity. With this increasing importance, it is... more
The Texas borderlands have come to be increasingly important in the historical literature and in public opinion for the way that the region shapes national thought on race, borders, and ethnicity. With this increasing importance, it is pressing to examine the history of these issues in the region so that they may be accurately and insightfully deployed. This article contributes to the existing scholarship with a close discursive analysis of race in the booster materials, 1904-1941. The booster materials forge a notion of race relations that borrows from tropes common across the West but is also informed by Jim Crow and the unique demands of the region. The booster materials forward a notion of race that is largely unique in Western boosterism, positing only two major characters, Mexicans and white Northerners. The figure of ‘the Mexican’ is drawn more as a part of nature than human society in that it shares the fundamental characteristics of the land, animals, and rivers of the regi...
... We felt we had to do what we could with our lives as well. That was a time in 1968. Moctesuma Esparza Change wasn't going to come from within; it had to come from without. Paula Crisostomo Speak truth to power and... more
... We felt we had to do what we could with our lives as well. That was a time in 1968. Moctesuma Esparza Change wasn't going to come from within; it had to come from without. Paula Crisostomo Speak truth to power and things will happen. ...
The distinction between "settler colonialism" and "conquest colonialism," first articulated by Patrick Wolfe, has added nuance to the way historians have approached and understood the process of... more
The distinction between "settler colonialism" and "conquest colonialism," first articulated by Patrick Wolfe, has added nuance to the way historians have approached and understood the process of newcomer occupation of lands, displacement of indigenous people, and colonization of both. This scholarship has also opened a historiographical door inviting others to revisit the earlier fur-trade era-a time prior to full-blown settler colonialism during which colonial projections of military power were common. This article examines one particularly violent incident in this liminal period in North American colonialism-the largely overlooked 1792 deadly raid on a Nuu-chah-nulth settlement on Vancouver Island by British traders on the ship Butterworth. Using previously unavailable journals left by American observers of the incident, this article contributes to the re-situating of the scholarship of colonial encounters by highlighting the ways that these journal fragments open new interpretative opportunities. These texts allow us to better understand conquest and colonial relationships with indigenous people and especially the role that violence and ethnocentrism played on all sides. To assist future researchers, the authors have provided complete transcripts and created a map of the portions of the journals that describe this important clash at Clayoquot.
... incredibly supportive faculty and staff colleagues at Ut dallas, especially Charles Bambach, rick Brettel, susan Bri-ante, Matthew Brown ... rosen, eric schlereth, Jeff schultz, Morgan shockey, erin smith, sabrina starnaman, Charissa... more
... incredibly supportive faculty and staff colleagues at Ut dallas, especially Charles Bambach, rick Brettel, susan Bri-ante, Matthew Brown ... rosen, eric schlereth, Jeff schultz, Morgan shockey, erin smith, sabrina starnaman, Charissa terranova, dan Wickberg, Michael Wilson, Beth ...
... We felt we had to do what we could with our lives as well. That was a time in 1968. Moctesuma Esparza Change wasn't going to come from within; it had to come from without. Paula Crisostomo Speak truth to power and... more
... We felt we had to do what we could with our lives as well. That was a time in 1968. Moctesuma Esparza Change wasn't going to come from within; it had to come from without. Paula Crisostomo Speak truth to power and things will happen. ...
... Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America, by Josh Kun 19. Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles, by Laura Pulido 20. Fit to Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 18791939, by Natalia Molina Page 4.... more
... Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America, by Josh Kun 19. Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles, by Laura Pulido 20. Fit to Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 18791939, by Natalia Molina Page 4. Fit to Be Citizens? ...