Indigenous Remix: How Native American History Shaped the American Past
This event took place on 8 June 2023. The information below is correct as of the publication date.
From the Revolution to the Cold War, from the Constitution to the last election, from foundational legal decisions to the contemporary Supreme Court, American Indians have been intricately interwoven into American history.
And yet Native peoples are often considered only a minor afterthought, the subject of vague and guilt-assuaging laments about the sad costs of colonial settlement. There is a different story to be told: of centuries-long struggles over tribal sovereignty and citizenship, of American laws, rights, and possibilities, of contests over land and culture.
In this Bryant Lecture, Philip Deloria weaves Native histories into traditional topics in American history, offering tools for reconceptualising the American past.
Presented by the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library.
Philip J. Deloria is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University, where his research and teaching focus on the social, cultural and political histories of the relations among American Indian peoples and the United States, as well as the comparative and connective histories of indigenous peoples in a global context. Deloria received the Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1994, taught at the University of Colorado, and then, from 2001 to 2017, at the University of Michigan, before joining the faculty at Harvard in January 2018. He is a trustee of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian. He is former president of the American Studies Association and the Organization of American Historians, an elected member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of numerous prizes and recognitions. He is the author of several books, including Playing Indian (Yale University Press, 1998), Indians in Unexpected Places (University Press of Kansas, 2004), American Studies: A User’s Guide (University of California Press, 2017), with Alexander Olson, and Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract (University of Washington Press, 2019), as well as two co-edited books and numerous articles and chapters.
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