"They Are Ancestral Homelands": Race, Place, and Politics in Cold War Native America, 1945-1961

Orwellian Language and the Politics of Tribal Termination (1953–1960)

“…Political practice still depends on theory…on Reason" (p. 131). Concerned with the relationship between discourse and economic oppression, Marcuse's critique of Orwellian language emphasizes the social power of signifying practice while also foregrounding the Orwell 8 primacy of materialist interests in sustaining and challenging social domination (Best & Kellner, 1991 (Philip, 2005;Rosier, 2006). Metcalf (2002) argues that termination was a "type of ideological combat," which even for those who defended the welfare of tribes, "devolved into a struggle over land and resources" (p. 3).…”

‘We’re Still Here’: Memory and Commemoration in the Alliances between the American Indian Movement and Welsh Nationalists

“…Through an examination of historical remembering in these relationships between AIM and Ty Cenedl, this article builds on existing scholarship on the transnational in Indigenous Studies and Memory Studies, particularly those that bring these fields into conversation. Red Power historians have begun the critical work of placing Indigenous North American activists in a transnational context, tracing how they understood Native problems as part of larger global struggles of the Cold War era (Cobb 2007(Cobb , 2008Eberle 2018;Penny 2013;Rosier 2006Rosier , 2008Shreve 2011;Tóth 2016). Scholars in Indigenous Studies and Memory Studies have also argued for the importance of tracing the role of historical memory in activism, including the "counter-commemorations" of the American Indian Movement (Bevernage 2008(Bevernage , 2012Bruyneel 2013;Tóth 2016b), and transnational memory is an emerging subfield in Memory Studies as scholars have sought to understand the connective work of memory in activism by looking beyond the field's usual national frame (De Cesari & Rigney 2014;Rigney 2016;Rigney 2018a;Rigney 2018b).…”