Indigenous Reading in the Archives of Empire
Birchbark Object Lessons at the 1893 World's Fair
Thursday, February 24, 2022 · 4 - 6 PM
For the Spring 2022 Humanities Forum, the Dresher Center for the Humanities presents Indigenous Reading in the Archives of Empire: Birchbark Object Lessons at the 1893 World's Fair, a presentation by 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.
Co-sponsored by the Department of History.
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