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Author Brown, Nicholas A., author.

Title Re-collecting Black Hawk : landscape, memory, and power in the American Midwest / Nicholas A. Brown and Sarah E. Kanouse
Published Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 279 pages)
Series Culture, Politics, and the Built Environment
Culture, politics, and the built environment.
Contents Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 We Are Still Here to Tell Their Stories and to Add Our Own / George Thurman -- ch. 2 Iowa -- ch. 3 They Don't Even Want Our Bones: An Interview with Johnathan Buffalo / Nicholas A. Brown -- ch. 4 Wisconsin -- ch. 5 Even Though He Had a Native Person Standing in Front of Him, He Just Did Not See Me: An Interview with Sandra Massey / Sarah E. Kanouse -- ch. 6 Illinois -- ch. 7 We Have More Important Work to Do within Ourselves First: An Interview with Yolanda Pushetonequa / Sarah E. Kanouse -- ch. 8 Makataimeshekiakiak, Settler Colonialism, and the Specter of Indigenous Liberation / Dylan A.T. Miner -- CODA -- Minnesota's Sesquicentennials and Dakota People: Remembering Oppression and Invoking Resistance / Waziyatawin
Summary "The name Black Hawk permeates the built environment in the upper midwestern United States. It has been appropriated for everything from fitness clubs to used car dealerships. Makataimeshekiakiak, the Sauk Indian war leader whose name loosely translates to "Black Hawk," surrendered in 1832 after hundreds of his fellow tribal members were slaughtered at the Bad Axe Massacre.Re-Collecting Black Hawkexamines the phenomena of this appropriation in the physical landscape, and the deeply rooted sentiments it evokes among Native Americans and descendants of European settlers. Nearly 170 original photographs are presented and juxtaposed with texts that reveal and complicate the significance of the imagery. Contributors include tribal officials, scholars, activists, and others including George Thurman, the principal chief of the Sac and Fox Nation and a direct descendant of Black Hawk. These image-text encounters offer visions of both the past and present and the shaping of memory through landscapes that reach beyond their material presence into spaces of cultural and political power. As we witness, the evocation of Black Hawk serves as a painful reminder, a forced deference, and a veiled attempt to wipe away the guilt of past atrocities.Re-Collecting Black Hawkalso points toward the future. By simultaneously unsettling and reconstructing the midwestern landscape, it envisions new modes of peaceful and just coexistence and suggests alternative ways of inhabiting the landscape." -- Publisher's Description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Black Hawk (Sauk chief), 1767-1838 -- Influence
SUBJECT Black Hawk (Sauk chief), 1767-1838 fast
Subject White people -- Middle West -- Relations with Indians
Collective memory -- Middle West
Indians in popular culture -- Middle West
Sauk Indians (Algonquian) -- Historiography
Cultural landscapes -- Middle West
Names -- Middle West
Names, Geographical -- Middle West
Black Hawk War, 1832 -- Influence
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Subjects & Themes -- Landscapes.
Names, Geographical
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Collective memory
Cultural landscapes
Indians in popular culture
Names
White people -- Relations with Indians
SUBJECT Middle West -- Pictorial works
Subject Middle West
Genre/Form Pictorial works
Form Electronic book
Author Kanouse, Sarah E., author.
LC no. 2015004078
ISBN 9780822980391
0822980398