Indigenous Peoples Studies
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Book Anatomy: Body Politics and Materiality in Indigenous Book History | Books bear the imprint of our humanity, from the social and cultural means of their production to the notes written in their margins. And Indigenous books, embodying the marks, traces, and scars of colonial survival, are contested spaces. These publications, authored by Native Americans during the long nineteenth century, included a variety of nontextual components‒‒illustrations, typefaces, explanatory prefaces, appendices, copyright statements, author portraits, and more‒‒shaping how they were read and understood. |
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Native Performances of Christianity | In this program, William Hart will discuss with David Silverman the significance and meaning of eighteenth-century Mohawks who performed Christianity and why. Hart’s findings, published in his 2020 book, “For the Good of Their Souls”: Performing Christianity in Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Country, indicate that the old soubriquet of “faithful Mohawks” is no longer useful. |
| Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literature | ||
| To Live upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast | ||
| Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State | ||
| Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson | ||
| Native American Whalemen and the World: The Contingency of Race | ||
| Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America | ||
| Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion | ||
| Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England |