Re-Collecting Black Hawk: Landscape, Memory, and Power in the American Midwest

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$55.00  $51.15
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University of Pittsburgh Press
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Pages
294
Dimensions
7.2 X 10.2 X 0.8 inches | 1.95 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780822944379

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About the Author
Nicholas A. Brown is a visiting assistant professor in the American Indian and Native Studies program at the University of Iowa. Sarah E. Kanouse is an associate professor in the School of Art and Art history at the University of Iowa.
Reviews
The design of the book, its subject and methodology, gracefully and forcefully demonstrate how the study of place names might be done.-- "Journal of Onomastics"
Re-Collecting Black Hawk is a demonstration of the potential for innovation in the field of history. The example set by the editors should be embraced by other historians, popular and academic, in their pursuit to convey relevance and foster a spirit of revisionism. . . . Brown and Kanouse have drawn on their academic training in art and history to produce a work that is at once both artistic commentary and historical scholarship. [This book] contributes to the historiography through its choice of subject matter and the way that information is conveyed. [The editors] have utilized their unique combination of skills to challenge the assumptions held by Americans of non-indigenous descent.-- "H-Net Reviews"
Through an original and highly provocative pairing of image and text, Brown and Kanouse explore the complicated legacy of white colonization of an indigenous world. Now called the American Midwest, that world bears the imprint of its previous inhabitants as filtered through the conquerors. The book's brilliance resides in the incessant questioning of that legacy--why it's selectively remembered and forgotten. Re-Collecting Black Hawk will change how readers make their own memories of this place.-- "Steven Hoelscher, University of Texas at Austin"
Re-Collecting Black Hawk puts forth a provocative and thorough examination of how a historical Sac and Fox leader has been reduced to a footnote. . . . As an educational tool, [it] could make a formidable text for US history studies at the university level, particularly in discussions of how the dominant European culture of the US has all but buried the existence of peoples who were on the North American continent before Europeans arrived. Its other, equally vital use (if not more so to the Sac and Fox people) is in gathering up information about the actual Black Hawk and returning it to its real-life context. It's a laudable effort that succeeds very well.-- "Foreword Reviews"
Re-Collecting Black Hawk is an important and exciting work of cultural geography and Native studies. Featuring a fascinating photo-essay and foregrounding the voices of tribal administrators, Native scholars and artists, this innovative book will be accessible and valuable to a diverse range of readers interested in memory and landscape in the American Midwest.-- "Bill Anthes, Pitzer College, The Claremont Colleges"
An artistic work, yet much more than a coffee table book for casual readers. . . a work that anyone interested in Native American history and politics should read.-- "Journal of the Iowa Archeological Society"
The decade's smartest and most destabilizing book on Indians, Americans, amnesia, and memory. This book unsettles conventional wisdom of all kinds. Straightforward images document the massive and mysterious project by citizens of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois to inscribe the name of a nineteenth century Indian leader on a staggering variety of stores, parks, bars, nursing homes, teams, and schools. An instant classic, in the tradition of Michael Lesy's Wisconsin Death Trip.-- "Paul Chaat Smith, author of Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong"