Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte Hidatsa law and policy was far

law and policy was far from an idle one for the Dakhóta people

Poet Laureate

myth and reality

and of the human being in context

as-told-to memoir uncovers the humanity behind Bellecourt's militant image

Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte Hidatsa law and policy was farHow authors rendered Dakhta philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveillance state. Translated Nation examines literary works and oral histories by Dakhta intellectuals from the aftermath of the 1862 U. S. Dakota War to the present day, highlighting creative Dakhta responses to violences of the settler colonial state. Christopher Pexa argues that the assimilation era of federal