Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte Hidatsa myth and reality

myth and reality

as-told-to memoir uncovers the humanity behind Bellecourt's militant image

survivors shout back at useless cautionary tales with their own courage and visions of future worlds made well

law and policy was far from an idle one for the Dakhóta people

we learn to listen better to ourselves and all the beings who have secrets to share

Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte Hidatsa myth and realityHow authors rendered Dakhta philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveillance state. Translated Nation examines literary works and oral histories by Dakhta intellectuals from the aftermath of the 1862 U. S. Dakota War to the present day, highlighting creative Dakhta responses to violences of the settler colonial state. Christopher Pexa argues that the assimilation era of federal