Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire humor discovering family and foe

discovering family and foe

the voice that emerges from these poems is that of a Dakota woman rooted in her world and her words

it is about white

he attempted to flee

when the US cavalry hired Native scouts to track Apache fleeing into Mexico

Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire humor discovering family and foeReferences to the Indian Wars, those conflicts that accompanied US continental expansion, suffuse American military history. From Black Hawk helicopters to the exclamation Geronimo used by paratroopers jumping from airplanes, words and images referring to Indians have been indelibly linked with warfare. In Indian Wars Everywhere, Stefan Aune shows how these resonances signal a deeper history, one in which the Indian Wars function as a shadow doctrine