Translated Nation
How authors rendered DakhĂta 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 DakhĂta intellectuals from the aftermath of the 1862 U.S.âDakota War to the present day, highlighting creative DakhĂta responses to violences of the settler colonial state. Christopher Pexa argues that the assimilation era of federal U.S. law and policy was far from an idle one for the DakhĂta people, but rather involved remaking the OyĂte (the OÄĂti Ć akĂwiĆ OyĂte or People of the Seven Council Fires) through the encrypting of DakhĂta political and relational norms in plain view of settler audiences.
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 DakhĂta/LakhĂta philosophy and politics. He explores how these authors, as well as oral histories from the Spirit Lake DakhĂta Nation, invoke thiĂĆ paye (extended family or kinship) ethics to critique U.S. legal translations of DakhĂta relations and politics into liberal molds of heteronormativity, individualism, property, and citizenship. He examines how DakhĂta intellectuals remained part of their social frameworks even while negotiating the possibilities and violence of settler colonial framings, ideologies, and social forms.Â
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 DakhĂta peoplehood not only emerges over time but in everyday places, activities, and stories. It provides a distinctive view of the hidden vibrancy of a historical period that is often tied only to Indigenous survival.
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How authors rendered DakhĂta 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 DakhĂta intellectuals from the aftermath of the 1862 U.S.âDakota War to the present day, highlighting creative DakhĂta responses to violences of the settler colonial state. Christopher Pexa argues that the assimilation era of federal U.S. law and policy was far from an idle one for the DakhĂta people, but rather involved remaking the OyĂte (the OÄĂti Ć akĂwiĆ OyĂte or People of the Seven Council Fires) through the encrypting of DakhĂta political and relational norms in plain view of settler audiences.
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 DakhĂta/LakhĂta philosophy and politics. He explores how these authors, as well as oral histories from the Spirit Lake DakhĂta Nation, invoke thiĂĆ paye (extended family or kinship) ethics to critique U.S. legal translations of DakhĂta relations and politics into liberal molds of heteronormativity, individualism, property, and citizenship. He examines how DakhĂta intellectuals remained part of their social frameworks even while negotiating the possibilities and violence of settler colonial framings, ideologies, and social forms.Â
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 DakhĂta peoplehood not only emerges over time but in everyday places, activities, and stories. It provides a distinctive view of the hidden vibrancy of a historical period that is often tied only to Indigenous survival.
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How authors rendered DakhĂta 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 DakhĂta intellectuals from the aftermath of the 1862 U.S.âDakota War to the present day, highlighting creative DakhĂta responses to violences of the settler colonial state. Christopher Pexa argues that the assimilation era of federal U.S. law and policy was far from an idle one for the DakhĂta people, but rather involved remaking the OyĂte (the OÄĂti Ć akĂwiĆ OyĂte or People of the Seven Council Fires) through the encrypting of DakhĂta political and relational norms in plain view of settler audiences.
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 DakhĂta/LakhĂta philosophy and politics. He explores how these authors, as well as oral histories from the Spirit Lake DakhĂta Nation, invoke thiĂĆ paye (extended family or kinship) ethics to critique U.S. legal translations of DakhĂta relations and politics into liberal molds of heteronormativity, individualism, property, and citizenship. He examines how DakhĂta intellectuals remained part of their social frameworks even while negotiating the possibilities and violence of settler colonial framings, ideologies, and social forms.Â
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 DakhĂta peoplehood not only emerges over time but in everyday places, activities, and stories. It provides a distinctive view of the hidden vibrancy of a historical period that is often tied only to Indigenous survival.
