Friday, Jul 11, 2008

2-19-08 Beyond Conquest: Rewriting Native Connecticut: Interview with Dr. Amy Den Ouden

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J. Kehaulani Kauanui interviews Dr. Amy Den Ouden, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where she teaches courses on cultural theory, colonialism, gender and power, critical approaches to history and historiography in Native New England, contemporary political issues in Native North America, and indigenous rights and the law in global perspective. She is the author of Beyond Conquest: Native Peoples and the Struggle for History in New England, a history of Native American peoples in southern New England from the seventeenth century to the present with a focus on the complex cultural and political facets of resistance to encroachment on reservation lands. Her important work also links how the current white American scrutiny and denial of local Indian identities is a practice with a long history in southern New England, one linked to colonial notions of cultural-and ultimately "racial"-illegitimacy that emerged in the context of eighteenth-century disputes regarding Native land rights.

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