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<p>This essay explores race, racism, history, and popular memory from the vantage point of the Indigenous world, and, specifically, Native peoples colonized within the present-day United States. Over the course of the past decade, Indigenous movements for land and life have shed light on the incomplete nature of conquest in Native North America and the instability of settler colonialism. “Unreconciled” explores the ongoing tension between Indigenous presence and the settler colonial “logic of elimination” in the context of land acknowledgments, commemoration, popular culture, and federal policy. We show that, despite changes with regard to the ways in which non-Indigenous people in settler states collectively remember or imagine community, elements of settler memory continue to reside within and limit public conversations on race, remembrance, reconciliation, and reparation. (DMC and MLC)</p>
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This essay explores race, racism, history, and popular memory from the vantage point of the Indigenous world, and, specifically, Native peoples colonized within the present-day United States. Over the course of the past decade, Indigenous movements for land and life have shed light on the incomplete nature of conquest in Native North America and the instability of settler colonialism. “Unreconciled” explores the ongoing tension between Indigenous presence and the settler colonial “logic of elimination” in the context of land acknowledgments, commemoration, popular culture, and federal policy. We show that, despite changes with regard to the ways in which non-Indigenous people in settler states collectively remember or imagine community, elements of settler memory continue to reside within and limit public conversations on race, remembrance, reconciliation, and reparation. (DMC and MLC)

Unreconciled: Indigenous Presents/Presence &amp; Settler Memory

Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies

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Unreconciled: Indigenous Presents/Presence & Settler Memory

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This essay explores race, racism, history, and popular memory from the vantage point of the Indigenous world, and, specifically, Native peoples colonized...

Unreconciled: Indigenous Presents/Presence & Settler Memory

Pubblicato online: 14 nov 2023

Pagine: 316 - 331

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30608/hjeas/2023/29/2/5

Parole chiave
Indigenous, land acknowledgments, memory, race, reconciliation, settler colonialism

© 2023 Daniel M. Cobb et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Unreconciled: Indigenous Presents/Presence & Settler Memory

Pubblicato online: 14 nov 2023

Pagine: 316 - 331

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30608/hjeas/2023/29/2/5

Parole chiaveIndigenous, land acknowledgments, memory, race, reconciliation, settler colonialism

© 2023 Daniel M. Cobb et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Parole chiave
Indigenous, land acknowledgments, memory, race, reconciliation, settler colonialism