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Interpreting the Indigenous South: Tribal Nations Confronting Race and Erasure in the U.S. Southeast book cover

1st Edition

Interpreting the Indigenous South Tribal Nations Confronting Race and Erasure in the U.S. Southeast

By Denise E. Bates, Brooke M. Bauer Copyright 2027
208 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Interpreting the Indigenous South  reframes public history as a space of Indigenous authority and self-representation, where communities define how their histories are told, their knowledge preserved, and their relationships to place understood. In the American South, where Indigenous histories have long been obscured by narratives of disappearance, Native nations are not only present but are... Read more

Introduction  1. We Are Still Here: Confronting Historical Silences  2. For Safekeeping: Collecting and Stewarding Cultural Knowledge  3. Re-Mapping the South: Indigenous Geographies and Homeland Representations  4. Telling Our Stories: Tribal Displays and Public Education in the South  5. Beyond the Museum: Indigenous Public Presence in the South  6. Carrying the Story Forward: Some Final Thoughts on the Future of Southern Tribal Public History

Biography

Denise E. Bates is a Professor of History and Dean of University College at Tufts University. She is the author of The Other Movement: Indian Rights and Civil Rights in the Deep South (2012) and Basket Diplomacy: Leadership, Alliance-Building, and Resilience among the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, 1884-1984 (2020).

Brooke M. Bauer, a citizen of the Catawba Nation, is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville, chair of the UTK Native American and Indigenous Studies Program, and the author of Becoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and Nation-building, 1540–1840 (2023).

 

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