7. Rutgers: A Land-Grant College in Native American History

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.

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CHAPTER 2. William Apess’s Theater and a “Native” American History

Rewriting White ◽

10.36019/9780813558356-005 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 40-62

Keyword(s):

Native American ◽

American History ◽

Native American History

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American Indian Environments: Ecological Issues in Native American History

American Indian Law Review ◽

10.2307/20068180 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 491

Author(s):

Harold W. Young ◽

Christopher Vecsey ◽

Robert W. Venables

Keyword(s):

Native American ◽

American Indian ◽

American History ◽

Native American History

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Frederick E. Hoxie (ed.), Encyclopedia of North American Indians: Native American History, Culture, and Life from Paleo-Indians to the Present (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996, £27.50). Pp. 756. ISBN 0 395 66921 9.

Journal of American Studies ◽

10.1017/s0021875898825930 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 32 (2) ◽

pp. 307-372

Author(s):

JACQUELINE FEAR

Keyword(s):

Native American ◽

American Indians ◽

North American ◽

American History ◽

Native American History ◽

North American Indians ◽

Paleo Indians

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History, Postmodernism, and Louise Erdrich's Tracks

PMLA ◽

10.2307/462966 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 109 (5) ◽

pp. 982-994 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

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.

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John Neihardt, William Benson, and Ruth Underhill: Telling Native American History

Voices of Persuasion ◽

10.1017/cbo9780511666698.004 ◽

1994 ◽

pp. 54-78

Keyword(s):

Native American ◽

American History ◽

Native American History ◽

John Neihardt

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

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1093/ahr/rhaa194 ◽

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.

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