Early Indigenous Literatures

This "placement " is strategic and ironic. Black Hawk can only "endure" and be received with "gratitude" when controlled by narratives of settler colonialism

Black Hawk's grave, for instance, was pillaged shortly after his death. Thus, Black Hawk is only allowed discursive space, not physical space--whether the home village of Saukenuk or the possibility of a new "memory lands" elsewhere, the settler colonial logic necessitates eliminating Indigenous presence.

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