{"product_id":"translated-nation-christopher-j-pexa-9781517900717","title":"Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakha Oy疸e","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow authors rendered Dakha philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveillance state\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTranslated Nation\u003c\/i\u003e examines literary works and oral histories by Dakha intellectuals from the aftermath of the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War to the present day, highlighting creative Dakha responses to violences of the settler colonial state. Christopher Pexa argues that the assimilation era of federal U.S. law and policy was far from an idle one for the Dakha people, but rather involved remaking the Oy疸e (the Oč騁i Sakiŋ Oy疸e or People of the Seven Council Fires) through the encrypting of Dakha political and relational norms in plain view of settler audiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Nicholas Black Elk to Charles Alexander Eastman to Ella Cara Deloria, Pexa analyzes well-known writers from a tribally centered perspective that highlights their contributions to Dakha\/Lakha philosophy and politics. He explores how these authors, as well as oral histories from the Spirit Lake Dakha Nation, invoke thipaye (extended family or kinship) ethics to critique U.S. legal translations of Dakha relations and politics into liberal molds of heteronormativity, individualism, property, and citizenship. He examines how Dakha intellectuals remained part of their social frameworks even while negotiating the possibilities and violence of settler colonial framings, ideologies, and social forms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing together oral and written as well as past and present literatures, \u003ci\u003eTranslated Nation\u003c\/i\u003e expands our sense of literary archives and political agency and demonstrates how Dakha peoplehood not only emerges over time but in everyday places, activities, and stories. It provides a distinctive view of the hidden vibrancy of a historical period that is often tied only to Indigenous survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher J. Pexa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517900719\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517900717\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/04\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2019","brand":"Christopher J. Pexa","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44077941063935,"sku":"9781517900717","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0aebe5ac-4a3b-4fd5-afc2-ef4b4cb19f80.jpg?v=1685472637","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/translated-nation-christopher-j-pexa-9781517900717","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}