Indigenous Reading in the Archives of Empire

For their Spring 2022 Humanities Forum, the Dresher Center for the Humanities presents

Kelly Wisecup, Associate Professor, English, Northwestern University

At the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, the Potawatomi writer Simon Pokagon circulated a small birchbark pamphlet that recast colonial narratives of empire and discovery, connecting them to Indigenous homelands and histories of dispossession.  This talk offers new insights into what Pokagon called the pamphlet’s “object lessons,” its implications for nineteenth-century Indigenous literatures, and its connections to contemporary conversations about public space, monuments, and memory.

Photo provided by speaker.

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Image description: Kelly Wisecup, a white woman with short blonde-ish hair, is smiling and standing outside. She is wearing a black-colored top with gold earrings.

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