The Absence of Indigenous Histories in Ken Burns's The National Parks: America's Best Idea

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-29
Author(s):  
Brenda J. Child
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
National Parks ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Native People ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Indigenous Lands ◽  
Native Alaskans ◽  
History Of

Abstract The National Parks begins in 1851 and ends with Alaska in the 1970s, yet almost entirely erases Indigenous history from the landscape, allowing Native Alaskans, Indigenous Hawaiians, and American Indians no foothold or voice in the modern story of the parks. This is remarkable, considering that all of the parks were established on Indigenous homelands and that Native people and politics continue to be intertwined with the recent history of the parks. The experiences of Ojibwe people in the Great Lakes suggest that the creation of national parks in their homeland was part of a broader colonial history of appropriating Indigenous lands and resources, and extended the damaging policies of the Indian assimilation and allotment era farther into the twentieth century.

The Great Lakes

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Doerfler ◽  
Erik Redix
Keyword(s):  
Great Lakes ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Native People ◽  
Treaty Rights ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
Indian History ◽  
American Indian History ◽  
History Of

The experience of Native people in the Great Lakes region is crucial to understanding the larger history of American Indians. The region was (and remains) a microcosm of the experiences of Native peoples in North America. Most major issues in American Indian history either originated in the Great Lakes or have had a corresponding impact, including removal, military conflict, allotment, termination, challenges of urban life, Indian activism, treaty rights, and economic development via gaming. This chapter reviews those events and topics while exploring the central and critical role that relationships have played in the lives and experiences of Native people in the Great Lakes.

scholarly journals Recent history of nonindigenous species in the Laurentian Great Lakes; An update to Mills et al., 1993 (25 years later)

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1011-1035 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.A. Sturtevant ◽  
D.M. Mason ◽  
E.S. Rutherford ◽  
A. Elgin ◽  
E. Lower ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Great Lakes ◽  
Nonindigenous Species ◽  
Laurentian Great Lakes ◽  
Recent History ◽  
History Of

Tom Pickard and the Voices of Postwar British Poetry

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-384
Author(s):  
Bryan C. Chitwood
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Recent History ◽  
British Poetry ◽  
Political Narratives ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Voice

This article examines the work of British poet Tom Pickard, taking the publication of his collected poems as an occasion to renew an appreciation of the voice as an analytic category for the study of twentieth-century and contemporary British poetry. Focusing on a range of Pickard’s work, especially Ballad of Jamie Allan, the article suggests that rather than view the recent history of British poetry in terms of a modernist/antimodernist dichotomy, with poets assigned to either side of that divide, scholars might productively attend to how voice, as an analytic category and a textual effect, illuminates poetic histories that transgress the bounds of received aesthetic-political narratives.

scholarly journals Organisms, Machines, and Thunderstorms: A History of Self-Organization, Part One

2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelyn Fox Keller
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Subsequent Paper ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
History Of

Over the last quarter century, the term "self-organization" has acquired a currency that, notwithstanding its long history, has been taken to signal a paradigm shift, and perhaps even a scientific revolution, introducing a new Weltanschauungin fields as diverse as mathematics, physics, biology, ecology, cybernetics, economics, sociology, and engineering. But there is a prehistory to this revolution, as to the term itself, with at least two earlier episodes in which the same term was used to signal two other, quite different revolutions. In this paper, I review the pre-history of "self-organization," starting with Immanuel Kant, who first introduced the term, and then turn to the dramatic reframing of the concept by mid-twentieth century engineers. In a subsequent paper, I will review the more recent history of this concept when the term was once again reframed, this time by physicists. My aim will be to situate this latest incarnation of "self-organization" against the backdrop of earlier discussions.

scholarly journals The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers. J. Kevin Graffagnino, Terese M. Austin, Jayne Ptolemy, and Brian Leigh Dunnigan, eds.

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 154
Author(s):  
Amy Hildreth Chen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Recent History ◽  
History Of

Editors J. Kevin Graffagnino, Terese M. Austin, Jayne Ptolemy, and Brian Leigh Dunnigan seek to turn Americanists’ attention back to the origins of their field, before the titans of twentieth-century industry built our country’s major collections with the wealth of the industrial revolution. By devoting a book to the earliest collectors, dealers, and bibliographers of Americana, the editors argue that the field was already motivated by nostalgia; they assert that embedded in this history of bookmen is a narrative of how “middle and upper-class America: white, Protestant filiopietistic, and male” chose recent history, an intriguing insight in the time of “Make America Great Again” (11).

“Incorporating” American Colonialism: Accounting and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven W. Thornburg ◽  
Robin W. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Alaska Native ◽  
The United States ◽  
Corporate America ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Land Claims ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Alaska Native Corporations ◽  
Native Alaskans ◽  
History Of ◽  
The U.S

ABSTRACT The history of Alaska is a colonial history (Pomeroy 1947; Haycox 2002). The purpose of this paper is to examine how the corporate form of organization and corporate accounting were used by the United States (U.S.) government to rationalize decisions, exercise control, and exploit Alaskan resources to benefit corporate America and the existing U.S. states. The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA) established Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs), whose stock was distributed to qualifying Alaska Natives in exchange for their agreement to extinguish all aboriginal land claims. Guided by prior work in accounting and postmodern colonialism, our analysis uncovers ways in which ANCSA, though lauded by the U.S. government as an innovative and generous settlement, perpetuated a historical pattern of indigenous exploitation by western economic interests, and employed corporate accounting policies and techniques to further the interests of the U.S. government and large corporations at the expense of Native Alaskans.

scholarly journals Queer Fashion and Style: Stories from the Heartland—An Exhibition Catalog

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Reddy-Best ◽  
Dana Goodin ◽  
Eulanda Sanders
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Recent History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Queer Fashion & Style: Stories from the Heartland—An Exhibition Catalog analyzes the recent history of fashion through a queer lens by examining how queer identities are negotiated in everyday styles by women in the Midwest part of the United States from the late twentieth century to the present.

Surviving in the Twentieth Century, 1890–1960

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul C. Rosier
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Native American ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Indigenous Nations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth

This chapter highlights a generation of historical scholarship that has contested prevailing notions of American Indians as a passive minority group unable and unwilling to adapt to Western “progress.” Such notions persisted into the late twentieth century, finding expression in narratives that ignored the cultural and social heterogeneity of an increasingly urban Native American population, whose sophistication in resisting coercive federal assimilation programs such as termination developed within the context of Cold War politics and decolonization. As they struggled to defend their homelands and way of life, American Indians drew heavily on their cultural traditions, history of treaty making with the United States, and wartime sacrifices to assert themselves in modern America, as citizens of the United States and of indigenous nations.

scholarly journals Does the East of Europe Have a Modern History?

1994 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-230
Author(s):  
M. B. Biskupski
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Rutgers University ◽  
History Of ◽  
Western Language ◽  
Broad Region

In February 1990 a major conference dedicated to the recent history of the East of Europe was organised at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. The revised papers, edited by Joseph Held, comprise The Columbia History of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. It is the first major Western-language compendium discussing a broad region of Europe which brings together the talents of prominent specialists and exhibits thorough familiarity with the latest scholarship. Such an undertaking was predestined to yield a volume of significance. The kaleidoscopic developments over the last few years make this work extraordinarily timely and important beyond its obvious scholarly merits.

Manifestations of the Flying Dutchman: On Materializing Ghosts and (Not) Remembering the Colonial Past

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-205
Author(s):  
Agnes Andeweg
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Real Object ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Spectral Character ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Wide Dissemination

This article investigates remediations of the Flying Dutchman legend – the story about a ghost ship doomed to sail the oceans forever – in English and Dutch sources from the nineteenth and twentieth century. It explains the popularity and wide dissemination of the Flying Dutchman by interpreting the story, firstly, within the context of Anglo-Dutch colonial competition and, secondly, within the context of new technological developments, paying particular attention to the moments when the Flying Dutchman seems to lose its spectral character and becomes a real object or person. Of the two interpretations of the spectre put forward here – staging colonial history versus staging technological advancement –, the second seems to be the more dominant throughout the history of continuous remediation and adaptation of the Flying Dutchman. When the ghost materializes, temporality is reversed: the focus shifts from the present's fraught relation to the past to the present's imagination of the future. In the dissemination of the figure itself however the colonial dimension is often still present.

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