Living with the Past: Thoughts on Community Collaboration and Difficult History in Native American and Indigenous Studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 125 (2) ◽  
pp. 519-527
Author(s):  
David J. Silverman
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American History ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Community Collaboration ◽  
Native American History ◽  
Lively Discussion ◽  
King Philip's War ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

Abstract David Silverman offers a critical appraisal of two prizewinning works in Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS), Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, by Lisa Brooks, and Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, by Christine M. DeLucia. Silverman’s review treats the methodology associated with NAIS with some skepticism, offering the opportunity for a lively discussion about the merits and perils of community-engaged history scholarship. Four scholars of Native American history, including DeLucia, respond, defending new approaches to Indigenous history represented by these recent works.

What Does Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) Do?

2020 ◽  
Vol 125 (2) ◽  
pp. 542-545
Author(s):  
Jean M. O’Brien
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American History ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Native American History ◽  
Lively Discussion ◽  
King Philip's War ◽  
Indigenous History ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
History Of

Abstract David Silverman offers a critical appraisal of two prizewinning works in Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS), Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, by Lisa Brooks, and Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, by Christine M. DeLucia. Silverman’s review treats the methodology associated with NAIS with some skepticism, offering the opportunity for a lively discussion about the merits and perils of community-engaged history scholarship. Four scholars of Native American history, including DeLucia, respond, defending new approaches to Indigenous history represented by these recent works.

Cold Business and the Hot Take

2020 ◽  
Vol 125 (2) ◽  
pp. 537-541
Author(s):  
Philip J. Deloria
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American History ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Native American History ◽  
Lively Discussion ◽  
King Philip's War ◽  
Indigenous History ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
History Of

Abstract David Silverman offers a critical appraisal of two prizewinning works in Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS), Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, by Lisa Brooks, and Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, by Christine M. DeLucia. Silverman’s review treats the methodology associated with NAIS with some skepticism, offering the opportunity for a lively discussion about the merits and perils of community-engaged history scholarship. Four scholars of Native American history, including DeLucia, respond, defending new approaches to Indigenous history represented by these recent works.

Contexts for Critique: Revisiting Representations of Violence in Our Beloved Kin

2020 ◽  
Vol 125 (2) ◽  
pp. 533-536
Author(s):  
Alyssa Mt. Pleasant
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American History ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Native American History ◽  
Lively Discussion ◽  
King Philip's War ◽  
Indigenous History ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
History Of

Abstract David Silverman offers a critical appraisal of two prizewinning works in Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS), Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, by Lisa Brooks, and Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, by Christine M. DeLucia. Silverman’s review treats the methodology associated with NAIS with some skepticism, offering the opportunity for a lively discussion about the merits and perils of community-engaged history scholarship. Four scholars of Native American history, including DeLucia, respond, defending new approaches to Indigenous history represented by these recent works.

Historians and Native American and Indigenous Studies: A Reply

2020 ◽  
Vol 125 (2) ◽  
pp. 546-551
Author(s):  
David J. Silverman
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American History ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Native American History ◽  
Lively Discussion ◽  
King Philip's War ◽  
Indigenous History ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
History Of

Abstract David Silverman offers a critical appraisal of two prizewinning works in Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS), Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, by Lisa Brooks, and Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, by Christine M. DeLucia. Silverman’s review treats the methodology associated with NAIS with some skepticism, offering the opportunity for a lively discussion about the merits and perils of community-engaged history scholarship. Four scholars of Native American history, including DeLucia, respond, defending new approaches to Indigenous history represented by these recent works.

Continuing the Intervention: Past, Present, and Future Pathways for Native Studies and Early American History

2020 ◽  
Vol 125 (2) ◽  
pp. 528-532
Author(s):  
Christine M. DeLucia
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American History ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Native American History ◽  
Lively Discussion ◽  
King Philip's War ◽  
Native Studies ◽  
Early American History ◽  
Early American ◽  
History Of

Abstract David Silverman offers a critical appraisal of two prizewinning works in Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS), Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, by Lisa Brooks, and Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, by Christine M. DeLucia. Silverman’s review treats the methodology associated with NAIS with some skepticism, offering the opportunity for a lively discussion about the merits and perils of community-engaged history scholarship. Four scholars of Native American history, including DeLucia, respond, defending new approaches to Indigenous history represented by these recent works.

History, Postmodernism, and Louise Erdrich's Tracks

PMLA ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 109 (5) ◽  
pp. 982-994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy J. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
American History ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Native American History ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Historical Accounts

The deconstruction of history by poststructuralists and some philosophers of history has occurred at the moment when women and indigenous peoples have begun to write their own historical accounts. Louise Erdrich's historical novel, Tracks, brings into focus the necessity and the difficulties of writing Native American history in a postmodern epoch. The novel addresses two crucial issues: the referential value of history (If it is impossible to know the past fully, is it impossible to know the past at all?) and the status of history as narrative (If history is just a story, how is it possible to discriminate between one story and another?). Erdrich's novel suggests the need for indigenous histories to counter the dominant narrative, in which the settling of America is “progress,” but also works toward a new historicity that is neither a simple return to historical realism nor a passive acceptance of postmodern historical fictionality.

Editor's Introduction

2006 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
LISA JACOBSON
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American History ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Native American History ◽  
National Museum ◽  
The Past ◽  
Risks And Benefits

In this review roundtable, the essayists offer complementary and divergent assessments of the National Museum of the American Indian's presentation strategies and its efforts to revise and shape popular understandings of Native American history and culture. They also consider the risks and benefits of strong stakeholder participation in the NMAI's curatorial decisions, raising profound questions about who holds, and should hold, the power to reconstruct the past.

Algonquian Diasporas

Memory Lands ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine M. DeLucia
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
New England ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Community Members ◽  
King Philip's War ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Native American Tribes

This chapter examines how King Philip’s War gave rise to a significant but often ignored or misperceived history of bondage, enslavement, and diaspora that took Native Americans far from their northeast homelands, and subjected them to a range of brutal conditions across an Atlantic World. It focuses on Algonquians’ transits into captivity as a consequence of the war, and historicizes this process within longer trajectories of European subjugation of Indigenous populations for labor. The chapter examines how Algonquian individuals and families were forcibly placed into New England colonial as well as Native communities at the war’s conclusion, and how others were transported out of the region for sale across the Atlantic World. The case of King Philip’s wife and son is especially complex, and the chapter considers how traditions around their purported sale into slavery in Bermuda interact with challenging racial politics and archival traces. Modern-day “reconnection” events have linked St. David’s Island community members in Bermuda to Native American tribes in New England. The chapter also reflects on wider dimensions of this Algonquian diaspora, which likely brought Natives to the Caribbean, Azores, and Tangier in North Africa, and propelled Native migrants/refugees into Wabanaki homelands.

The History of Africanization and the Africanization of History

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 85-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esperanza Brizuela-García
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
American History ◽  
African Studies ◽  
African History ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Challenges

The idea of Africanization is arguably one of the most important and prevalent in African historiography and African studies. I first encountered this notion some eight years ago when I started graduate school. With a background in Mexican and Latin American history, I found it necessary to immerse myself in the historiography of Africa. It was in this process that I encountered the idea of Africanization. It was not always identified in this manner, but it was clear that historians were, in one way or another, articulating a concern about how “African” was African history.The objective of this paper is to examine the history of Africanization in African historiography. It departs from two basic premises. First, the issues that come with the idea of Africanization are more pronounced in the field of African history. When compared to other fields, such as Latin American history, this indigenizing of history is not given nearly so much attention. Second, the idea that African history needs to be Africanized has been taken for granted, and has not been critically examined. Here I will contend that the historical conditions that have framed the emergence and development of African historiography have made it necessary to emphasize the issue of Africanization. I will also argue that those conditions have changed in the past fifty years, and that the questions raised in the quest to Africanize history should be redefined in view of the new challenges for African history and of historiography at large.

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