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Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education and Report to the Department of the Interior: Poems (Diane Glancy)
No full textThis essay contains reviews of Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education and Report to the Department of the Interior: Poems, two recent publications by Diane Glancy
REVIEW ESSAY: Reshaping American Indian Autobiography in Elissa Washuta’s My Body is a Book of Rules
No full textBook review of Elissa Washuta's My Body is a Book of Rule
Mediating Indianness (Cathy Covell Waegner, ed.)
No full textBook review of Cathy Covell Waegner's Mediating Indiannes
Brian Sloan, Informal Carers and Private Law
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The Sovereignty of Transmotion in a State of Exception: Lessons from the Internment of 'Praying Indians' on Deer Island, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1675-1676
Get PDFSettler colonialism is a structure rather than an event, according to recent theorists such as Patrick Wolfe, a process marked by the clearing of colonial space through the “logic of elimination”: the separation, dispossession, removal, and disappearance of indigenous peoples from their homelands. Metacom's War offers an early instance of this process. Among the many grievances that Metacom presented to the deputy governor of Rhode Island colony, John Easton, during their negotiations in June 1675 were the increasing pace of land loss, the threat posed by forcible Christianization, and the loss of tribal jurisdiction. These grievances represent two major dynamics of later US settler colonialism: dispossession and coercive acculturation. However, at the outset of hostilities, the settler colonies employed a further strategy of Native confinement, culminating in the internment of so-called “Praying Indians” on Deer Island in Boston Harbor. Atrocities committed against Christian Indians have a special resonance: as subjects of the English Crown, a fact acknowledged by Metacom in his negotiations with Easton, these “friendly” Natives should have enjoyed the protections accorded English subjects. The denial of such protections through the suspension of English sovereign law suggests that this internment represents an instance of Giorgio Agamben's “state of exception.” The legacy of this history is twofold: first, insight into the discursive workings of settler colonialism and, secondly, the possibilities for indigenous resistance highlighted byVizenor's concept of “transmotion,” “that sense of native motion and...active presence, [which] is sui generis sovereignty” (Fugitive Poses)
The Columbian Moment: Overcoming Globalization in Vizenor’s The Heirs of Columbus
Get PDFThis essay reassesses Gerald Vizenor’s novel The Heirs of Columbus in the context of the critical concepts of transnationalism and globalization. Drawing in part on the work of Indian economist Amartya Sen’s and Italian political philosopher Giacomo Marramao, the central argument of this piece is that Vizenor’s novel functions as a meditation on the ambiguous nature of modern globalization for Indian people. Through his subversive re-scripting both of the history of the “Columbian moment” of encounter and of Columbus’ own identity, Vizenor seeks to open up an imaginative space between the historical reality of a form of globalization over-determined by Western colonialism and an alternative, utopian model of what globalization might mean if re-cast in indigenous terms
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