Tag "Native American and Indigenous Studies"
By Editor July 28, 2023

Council Lecture with Michael Witgen

Michael Witgen will join us on Saturday afternoon, May 6, 2023, at 3:00 pm on the campus of William & Mary in Blow Hall 201 to deliver Unthinkable History: the American Settler State and the Political Economy of Plunder. The American Republic was founded as a nation of settlers struggling to colonize Native North America. This project began as an extension of the original European colonial… Read More

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By Editor July 28, 2023

Colloquium with Emily Macgillivray

Join us ONLINE for a discussion of “Sally Ainse: An Oneida Woman’s Politics and Property in the Thames River Valley Borderlands, 1790 to 1830.” Emily Macgillivray is an assistant professor of Native American Studies at Northland College, Canada. She received a PhD in American Studies from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on 18th and 19th century… Read More

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By Editor July 28, 2023

Colloquium with Kai Pyle

Join us in the OI Conference room, Swem Library, campus of William & Mary, for a discussion of “Two-Spirit Love and War as Indigenous Diplomacy: Ozaawindib in the Red River Valley, ca. 1800.” Kai Pyle holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. Their current project draws on methods from linguistics, history, literary studies,… Read More

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By Erin Kramer February 28, 2023

A Record of Colonialism's Paradoxes

by Erin Kramer (Trinity University) Erin Kramer is the author of “Coraler’s House: Diplomatic Spaces, Lineages, and Memory in the New York Borderlands” (William and Mary Quarterly, October 2022) In the acknowledgements to my recent WMQ article, I thanked a long list of scholars who were kind enough to read drafts of my essay as I struggled through it… Read More

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By Joshua Piker and Karin Wulf July 23, 2020

NAIS is Central to Early American Scholarship

By Joshua Piker and Karin Wulf If Early American history had a traditional newspaper a number of events over the last months would have produced top-of-the-fold, all-caps headlines about Native American and Indigenous Studies. One of these was the April publication of an exchange in the American Historical Review entitled  “Historians and Native American and Indigenous Studies.”  Begun… Read More

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