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Re-Collecting Black Hawk : Landscape, Memory, and Power in the American Midwest / Nicholas A. Brown and Sarah E. Kanouse.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Nicholas A.
- Series:
- Culture, politics, and the built environment.
- Culture, politics, and the built environment
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- White people--Middle West--Relations with Indians.
- White people.
- Collective memory--Middle West.
- Collective memory.
- Indians in popular culture--Middle West.
- Indians in popular culture.
- Sauk Indians (Algonquian)--Historiography.
- Sauk Indians (Algonquian).
- Cultural landscapes--Middle West.
- Cultural landscapes.
- Names--Middle West.
- Names.
- Names, Geographical--Middle West.
- Names, Geographical.
- Black Hawk War, 1832--Influence.
- Black Hawk War, 1832.
- Middle West--Pictorial works.
- Middle West.
- Black Hawk (Sauk chief), 1767-1838--Influence.
- Black Hawk.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 Hawk examines 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 pho
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction - Nicholas A. Brown and Sarah E. Kanouse; Chapter 1: We Are Still Here to Tell Their Stories and to Add Our Own - George Thurman; Chapter 2: Iowa; Chapter 3: They Don't Even Want Our Bones: An Interview with Johnathan Buffalo - Nicholas A. Brown; Chapter 4: Wisconsin; Chapter 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; Chapter 6: Illinois
- Chapter 7: We Have More Important Work to Do within Ourselves First: An Interview with Yolanda Pushetonequa - Sarah E. KanouseChapter 8: Makataimeshekiakiak, Settler Colonialism, and the Specter of Indigenous Liberation - Dylan A. T. Miner (Michif); Coda: Minnesota's Sesquicentennials and Dakota People: Remembering Oppression and Invoking Resistance - Waziyatawin; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; Image Credits; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822980391
- 0822980398
- OCLC:
- 908981764
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