Spatial Afterlives of Dispossession
[1] For melancholy and parallels with the genre of elegy, see Arnold Krupat, “That the People Might Live:” Loss and Renewal in Native American Elegy ; for survivance and continuance, see Gerald Vizenor, ed., Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence (Lincoln, Neb., 2008), esp. chap. 1.
Additionally, see the Black Hawk State Historic site. This exhibit does not go into depth on this site here because it does not appear to be a preservation effort led by Indigenous people (instead, it is managed by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency under the Illinois Department of Natural Resources). This difference is clear when looking at the educational materials available on the site's website. Despite site's goals to "recogniz[e] the importance of Native American presence in Rock Island," much of its historical narrative is riddled with settler colonial logics which "Other" and misconstrue Black Hawk and Sauk lifeways. Nevertheless, that this land has been set away for the theoretical purpose of this goal--even if it is yet to be realized--deserves a brief mention here.
Additionally, see the Black Hawk State Historic site. This exhibit does not go into depth on this site here because it does not appear to be a preservation effort led by Indigenous people (instead, it is managed by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency under the Illinois Department of Natural Resources). This difference is clear when looking at the educational materials available on the site's website. Despite site's goals to "recogniz[e] the importance of Native American presence in Rock Island," much of its historical narrative is riddled with settler colonial logics which "Other" and misconstrue Black Hawk and Sauk lifeways. Nevertheless, that this land has been set away for the theoretical purpose of this goal--even if it is yet to be realized--deserves a brief mention here.