Notes transcribed from Smedley, Audrey. Race in North America, Origin and Evolution of a Worldview, 2nd edition, Westview press, 1999, Comments are my own. The
Year: 2020
Imagining the American Nation, and Ignoring the Tribes
In the early nineteenth century, the United States assumed ownership of all of the Oregon Territory through “right of discovery”, first adjudicated in the United
Post Indianism
Gerald Vizenor has created the idea of the Post Indian, native peoples who are living a new consciousness beyond the stereotypes of victim-hood about Indians.
Gendered terms in Kalapuyan
This essay began some years ago when I was working on the Kalapuya lessons project with Esther Stutzman and her family. We discussed in our
Snowats, Iswukaw and Quartux
The story of Snowats, Iswukaw and Quartux, written down and published by Jesse Applegate in 1907, appears to be a version of one of the