This site requires Javascript to be turned on. Please enable Javascript and reload the page.

Early Indigenous Literatures Main Menu The Child Who Would be Sovereign: Settler Colonial Frustrations and the Figure of the Child in Gertrude Simmons Bonnin's American Indian Stories By: Kai Chase Illicit Relations: The Challenges and Possibilities of Black and Indigenous Relations soumya rachel shailendra Legibility and Ambivalence in 19th Century Indigenous Women's Writing An exhibit on E. Pauline Johnson and Sarah Winnemucca by Emma Cohen Lyric Histories: An Investigation of Early Black (and) Native America through Poetic Vignettes by Kira Tucker Marriage and Empire in 19th Century Native American Women's Literature by Angad Singh Not-not blood quantum: the Dawes Act and ambivalent Indigeneity by Yasmin Yoon Reading Indigenous Authorial Presence in 18th- and 19th-century Paratexts Title Page for Isabel Griffith-Gorgati's Exhibit Resistance on and off the Page: A Collaborative Conversation between Black and Indigenous Literary Contributors Featuring James Printer, Katherine Garret, Phillis Wheatley, and John Marrant (17th-18th Century Early Print Culture Participants)- By Lauren Johnson Spiritual Armies, Resurrected Bones, and “Boundless” Continents: How Indigenous Activists in Early New England Reconfigured Puritan Millennialist Narratives Featuring texts of Samson Occom, William Apess, and the Wampanoag Bible. By Surya Milner Sovereignty or Removal: The Conflicting Indigenous Policies of 1835 in the Continental United States Julia Gilman What Does Water Do For Indigenous Peoples of the Great Lakes Region? Featuring Heid E. Erdrich, Simon Pokagon, Black Hawk, and Simon Kofe by Sarah Nisenson (Re)introducing Black Hawk and The Life (1833) BHR 1-Intro

Howe, "Children at Play"

41696

This page has annotations:

Sky and earth join Kai Chase
Contents of this annotation:
1. Howe, "Children at Play"
Grounded and lifted Kai Chase
Contents of this annotation:
1. Howe, "Children at Play"
Rustling wind and movement surrounds them. Kai Chase
Contents of this annotation:
1. Howe, "Children at Play"
Children control the motion around them Kai Chase
Contents of this annotation:
1. Howe, "Children at Play"
Turn away from audience Kai Chase
Contents of this annotation:
1. Howe, "Children at Play"
Mouth parted and gesturing out Kai Chase
Contents of this annotation:
1. Howe, "Children at Play"

This page is referenced by:

Oscar Howe, "Children at Play" I draw our attention here (the end, if you are following a linear trajectory) to an image of Dakota children's joy and dance through Oscar Howe's "Children at Play." Resonating with the dancing of Bonnin's "Warrior' Daughter," the children depicted by Howe here are celebrating themselves and their relations when they dance. The wellbeing of their nation, families, and community are tied up in their ability to enjoy their childhood. In leaving us with this rich image, I hope to refuse those same settler attempts at constraining Indigenous childhood and futurity to a bleak, white future. In considering this art in conversation with the Dawes Act, ICWA, and Bonnin's American Indian Stories we see childhood as inextricably linked to the Dakota nation's wellbeing, connections, and celebration, even as it is a site of attempted control by settler colonial litigation. With all the inherent contradictions and ambivalences Bonnin herself articulated, sovereignty still can be the ringing of laughter from Native children who are loved, respected, valued, and connected to their nations.