Translated nation : rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte /

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 p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pexa, Chris (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Dakota Indians > Historiography. Dakota Indians > History > 19th century. Dakota Indians > Government relations > History > 19th century. Dakota Indians > Intellectual life. Dakota Indians > Interviews. HISTORY / Native American. LITERARY CRITICISM / Native American. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies.

Table of 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.