Re-collecting Black Hawk : landscape, memory, and power in the American Midwest /

Brown, Nicholas A.,

Re-collecting Black Hawk : landscape, memory, and power in the American Midwest / Nicholas A. Brown and Sarah E. Kanouse. - Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (xi, 279 pages) - Culture, Politics, and the Built Environment .

Includes bibliographies and index.

We Are Still Here to Tell Their Stories and to Add Our Own / Iowa -- They Don't Even Want Our Bones: An Interview with Johnathan Buffalo / Wisconsin -- Even Though He Had a Native Person Standing in Front of Him, He Just Did Not See Me: An Interview with Sandra Massey / Illinois -- We Have More Important Work to Do within Ourselves First: An Interview with Yolanda Pushetonequa / Makataimeshekiakiak, Settler Colonialism, and the Specter of Indigenous Liberation / CODA -- Minnesota's Sesquicentennials and Dakota People: Remembering Oppression and Invoking Resistance / George Thurman -- Nicholas A. Brown -- Sarah E. Kanouse -- Sarah E. Kanouse -- Dylan A.T. Miner -- Waziyatawin.

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



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White people--Relations with Indians.--Middle West
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.


Electronic Books.

E83 / .R436 2015