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Re-Collecting Black Hawk: Landscape, Memory, and Power in the American Midwest (Culture, Politics and the Built Environment)
Nicholas Brown
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Description for Re-Collecting Black Hawk: Landscape, Memory, and Power in the American Midwest (Culture, Politics and the Built Environment)
Hardcover. Editor(s): Brown, Nicholas; Kanouse, Sarah E. Series: Culture, Politics and the Built Environment. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AJ; HBJK; JFSL9; RG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 885.
The name Black Hawk permeates the built environment in the upper Midwestern United States. It has been appropriated for everything from fitness clubs to used car dealerships. Makataimeshekiakiak, the Sauk Indian war leader whose name loosely translates to "Black Hawk," surrendered in 1832 after hundreds of his fellow tribal members were slaughtered at the Bad Axe Massacre. Re-Collecting Black Hawk examines the phenomena of this appropriation in the physical landscape, and the deeply rooted sentiments it evokes among Native Americans and descendants of European settlers. Nearly 170 original photographs are presented and juxtaposed with texts that reveal and complicate the ... Read more
The name Black Hawk permeates the built environment in the upper Midwestern United States. It has been appropriated for everything from fitness clubs to used car dealerships. Makataimeshekiakiak, the Sauk Indian war leader whose name loosely translates to "Black Hawk," surrendered in 1832 after hundreds of his fellow tribal members were slaughtered at the Bad Axe Massacre. Re-Collecting Black Hawk examines the phenomena of this appropriation in the physical landscape, and the deeply rooted sentiments it evokes among Native Americans and descendants of European settlers. Nearly 170 original photographs are presented and juxtaposed with texts that reveal and complicate the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Condition
New
Series
Culture, Politics and the Built Environment
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822944379
SKU
V9780822944379
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About Nicholas Brown
Nicholas A. Brown is a visiting assistant professor in the American Indian and Native Studies program at the University of Iowa. Sarah E. Kanouse is an associate professor in the School of Art and Art history at the University of Iowa.
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