The Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the way races and nations were made and remade in conflicts over who would own land, who would farm it, and who would rule it. This story disrupts expected narratives of the American past, revealing how identities--race, nation, and class--took new forms in struggles over the creation of different systems of property.
Conflicts were unleashed by a series of sweeping changes: the forced "removal" of the Creeks from their homeland to...
The Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores th...
What if we saw indigenous people as the active agents of global exploration rather than as the passive objects of that exploration? What if, instead of conceiving of global exploration as an enterprise just of European men such as Columbus or Cook or Magellan, we thought of it as an enterprise of the people they "discovered"? What could such a new perspective reveal about geographical understanding and its place in struggles over power in the context of colonialism?
The World and All the Things upon It addresses these questions by tracing how Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian...
What if we saw indigenous people as the active agents of global exploration rather than as the passive objects of that exploration? What if, instea...
What if we saw indigenous people as the active agents of global exploration rather than as the passive objects of that exploration? What if, instead of conceiving of global exploration as an enterprise just of European men such as Columbus or Cook or Magellan, we thought of it as an enterprise of the people they "discovered"? What could such a new perspective reveal about geographical understanding and its place in struggles over power in the context of colonialism?
The World and All the Things upon It addresses these questions by tracing how Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian...
What if we saw indigenous people as the active agents of global exploration rather than as the passive objects of that exploration? What if, instea...
