Indigenous Peoples Studies

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.

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