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Translated nation : rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte

Title: Translated nation : rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte / Christopher Pexa.
Author: Pexa, Chris
Publication: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]

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Description

xiv, 311 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"How authors rendered Dakhota philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveillance state Translated Nation examines literary works and oral histories by Dakhota intellectuals from the aftermath of the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War to the present day, highlighting creative Dakhota responses to violences of the settler colonial state. Christopher Pexa argues that the assimilation era of federal U.S. law and policy was far from an idle one for the Dakhota people, but rather involved remaking the Oyate (the Oceti sakowi? Oyate or People of the Seven Council Fires) through the encrypting of Dakhota political and relational norms in plain view of settler audiences. From Nicholas Black Elk to Charles Alexander Eastman to Ella Cara Deloria, Pexa analyzes well-known writers from a tribally centered perspective that highlights their contributions to Dakhota/Lakhota philosophy and politics. He explores how these authors, as well as oral histories from the Spirit Lake Dakhota Nation, invoke thiospaye (extended family or kinship) ethics to critique U.S. legal translations of Dakhota relations and politics into liberal molds of heteronormativity, individualism, property, and citizenship. He examines how Dakhota intellectuals remained part of their social frameworks even while negotiating the possibilities and violence of settler colonial framings, ideologies, and social forms. Bringing together oral and written as well as past and present literatures, Translated Nation expands our sense of literary archives and political agency and demonstrates how Dakhota peoplehood not only emerges over time but in everyday places, activities, and stories. It provides a distinctive view of the hidden vibrancy of a historical period that is often tied only to Indigenous survival"--

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.
Interviews.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-287) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Ambivalence and the Unheroic Decolonizer -- Transgressive Adoptions -- First Interlude: Grace Lambert, Personal Interview, Fort Totten, Spirit Lake Nation, August 10, 1998 -- (Il)legible, (Il)liberal Subjects: Charles Eastman's Poetics of Withholding -- Second Interlude: Interview with Grace Lambert, Tate Topa Dakhota Wounspe (Four Winds Dakota Teaching) Program, March 10, 1993 -- Territoriality, Ethics, and Travel in the Black Elk Transcripts -- Peoplehood Proclaimed: Publicizing Dakhota Women in Ella Deloria's Waterlily -- Third Interlude: Interview with Lillian Chase, Tate Topa Dakhota Wounspe Program, Fort Totten, Spirit Lake Nation, February 26, 1993 -- Conclusion: Gathering the People -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Dakhota Pronunciation Guide.

Call Number

JFD 19-3822

ISBN

9781517900700
1517900700
9781517900717
1517900719

LCCN

2018039742

OCLC

1090284112

Author

Pexa, Chris, author.

Title

Translated nation : rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte / Christopher Pexa.

Publisher

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-287) and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Other Form:

Online version: Pexa, Chris, author. Translated nation Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019] 9781452960142 (DLC) 2019013243

Research Call Number

JFD 19-3822

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