Date and Time
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November 28 2018 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
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Location
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Many Nations Longhouse: 1630 Columbia Street, Eugene, OR
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Description
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Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Century Cherokee Writing, 1907-1970 (University of Oklahoma Press, Spring 2018) examines the politics and possibilities of Cherokee writing between Oklahoma statehood in 1907 and tribal reorganization in the early-1970s. Situating writing Rachel Caroline Eaton (1869-1938), John Milton Oskison (1874-1947), Ruth Muskrat Bronson (1897-1982), and Rollie Lynn Riggs (1899-1954) within the Cherokee trans/national contexts which informed their lives and work, the book explores the multiple and complicated ways these writers continued to remember, (re)imagine, and enact Cherokee nationhood in the absence of a functioning Cherokee state.
Often read as an intellectually inactive and politically insignificant “dark age” in Cherokee history, Stoking the Fire recovers this period as a rich archive of Cherokee national memory capable of informing contemporary discussions about sovereignty, self-determination, citizenship, and belonging in Cherokee Country and across Native American and Indigenous Studies today.
*This event is provided by the University of Oregon and is free and open to the public.
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