Congratulations to Tammy Wahpeconiah! Tammy has just been invited to contribute a chapter to War in American Literature and Culture for Cambridge UP's series, Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture.
Here’s an abstract of what Tammy plans to write:
On November 14, 2014, the Rosebud Sioux Nation declared that voting to authorize the Keystone XL pipeline was an “act of war,” a continuation, in fact, of almost 400 years of armed conflict between indigenous peoples and European colonists. President Trump’s choice of a portrait of Andrew Jackson to hang in the Oval Office and his on-going reference to a U. S. Senator as “Pocahontas” are only the most recent manifestations of the cultural divisions caused by American demands for land at any cost. This essay focuses on representations of violent conflicts between Europeans and Native Americans and includes historical and contemporary Indian voices, such as Black Hawk, William Apess, Sherman Alexie, Leslie Marmon Silko, Blake Hausman, and Stephen Graham Jones.