Re-Collecting Black Hawk
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Re-Collecting Black Hawk

Landscape, Memory, and Power in the American Midwest

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eBook - ePub

Re-Collecting Black Hawk

Landscape, Memory, and Power in the American Midwest

About this book

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 photographs are presented and juxtaposed with texts that reveal and complicate the significance of the imagery. Contributors include tribal officials, scholars, activists, and others, such as 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 Hawk also points toward the future. By simultaneously unsettling and reconstructing the Midwestern landscape, Re-Collecting Black Hawk envisions new modes of pea

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1 - We Are Still Here to Tell Their Stories and to Add Our Own
  9. Chapter 2 - Iowa
  10. Chapter 3 - They Don’t Even Want Our Bones: An Interview with Johnathan Buffalo
  11. Chapter 4 - Wisconsin
  12. 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
  13. Chapter 6 - Illinois
  14. Chapter 7 - We Have More Important Work to Do within Ourselves First: An Interview with Yolanda Pushetonequa
  15. Chapter 8 - Makataimeshekiakiak, Settler Colonialism, and the Specter of Indigenous Liberation
  16. Coda - Minnesota’s Sesquicentennials and Dakota People: Remembering Oppression and Invoking Resistance
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Contributors
  20. Image Credits
  21. Index