Description How authors rendered Dakh ta 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 Dakh ta intellectuals from the aftermath of the 1862 U.
S.-Dakota War to the present day, highlighting creative Dakh ta responses to violences of the settler colonial state.
About the Author Christopher Pexa is an enrolled member of the Spirit Lake Nation and assistant professor of English and affiliate of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota..
It provides a distinctive view of the hidden vibrancy of a historical period that is often tied only to Indigenous survival.
Bringing together oral and written as well as past and present literatures, Translated Nation expands our sense of literary archives and political agency and demonstrates how Dakh ta peoplehood not only emerges over time but in everyday places, activities, and stories.
He examines how Dakh ta intellectuals remained part of their social frameworks even while negotiating the possibilities and violence of settler colonial framings, ideologies, and social forms. legal translations of Dakh ta relations and politics into liberal molds of heteronormativity, individualism, property, and citizenship.
He explores how these authors, as well as oral histories from the Spirit Lake Dakh ta Nation, invoke thi spaye (extended family or kinship) ethics to critique U.
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From Nicholas Black Elk to Charles Alexander Eastman to Ella Cara Deloria, Pexa analyzes well-known writers from a tribally centered perspective that highlights their contributions to Dakh ta/Lakh ta philosophy and politics. law and policy was far from an idle one for the Dakh ta people, but rather involved remaking the Oy te (the Oc ti Sak wi? Oy te or People of the Seven Council Fires) through the encrypting of Dakh ta political and relational norms in plain view of settler audiences.
Christopher Pexa argues that the assimilation era of federal U.
S.
Description How authors rendered Dakh ta 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 Dakh ta intellectuals from the aftermath of the 1862 U.
S.-Dakota War to the present day, highlighting creative Dakh ta responses to violences of the settler colonial state
