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Kevin Noble Maillard
Kevin Maillard on Grape Dumplings
From the NYTs, here is “A Beloved Indigenous Dessert Evolves With Each Generation.”
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Interview with Kevin Maillard on His Book, “Frybread.”
Kevin Maillard: "Parenting by FaceTime in Coronavirus Quarantine"
In the New York Times, here.
Kevin is a great friend to Turtle Talk. We wish him the very best.
Chillin’ in Ithaca and Checking Out Some High Theory…
Waiting at Moosewood’s for the Cornell NALSA event to start in a bit.
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And enjoying a powerful work by one of my favorite thinkers (and champion fisher).
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Kevin Maillard on Romney’s “Binders Full of Women”
Brilliant.
Here.
Kevin Maillard on the Elizabeth Warren Cherokee Controversy
Here (h/t to R.M.).
An excerpt:
For the Cherokee Nation, Warren is “Indian enough;” she has the same blood quantum as Cherokee Nation Chief Bill John Baker. For non-Natives, this may be surprising. They expect to see “high cheekbones,” as Warren described her grandfather as having, or tan skin. They want to know of pow wows, dusty reservations, sweat lodges, peyote and cheap cigarettes. When outsiders look at these ostensibly white people as members of Native America, they don’t see minorities. As a result, Warren feels she must satisfy these new birthers and justify her existence.
Looked at from the inside, however, the Warren controversy is all new. When the Brown campaign accused Elizabeth Warren of touting herself as American Indian to advance her career, this was news to Native law professors. We have a good eye for welcoming faculty to the community and identifying promising scholars. We know where people teach, what they have published and we honor them when they die. Harvard Law School named its first Native American tenured professor? Really? In our small indigenous faculty town, we would have heard about it already.
NYTs “Room for Debate” — Tribal Rights vs. Racial Justice (Cherokee Freedmen Expulsion)
The New York Times’ “Room for Debate” series has published a series of articles on the Cherokee Freedmen controversy.
Debaters
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Define ‘Real Indians’
Kevin Noble Maillard, law professor, Syracuse University
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It’s About Ancestry
Cara Cowan-Watts, speaker, Cherokee Council
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A Weak Sovereign
Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Turtle Talk law blog
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The Role of Blood Quantum
Rose Cuison Villazor, Hofstra University Law School
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My Cherokee Identity
Heather Williams, Freedmen descendent
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Slavery’s Long Shadow
Carla D. Pratt, law professor, Penn State University
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Why the Freedmen Fight
Tiya Miles, historian, University of Michigan
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The True Meaning of Sovereignty
Joanne Barker, associate professor, American Indian studies
Friends of Turtle Talk Participate in NYTs Debate on the Future of Law School
Here for a full roster of debaters. Here for Kevin Noble Maillard, and here for Rose Cuison Villazor.
And also here:
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It’s Not a Trade School
Kevin Noble Maillard
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Improving, Not Overhauling
Rose Cuison Villazor
Kevin Maillard on Black Seminoles and History
Kevin Noble Maillard (Syracuse) has posted “Redwashing History: Tribal Anachronisms in the Seminole Nation Cases” on SSRN. It is forthcoming from the Freedom Center Journal. Here is the abstract:
The status of people of African descent in indigenous nations generates important questions about what it means to be Indian. A fair understanding of the Freedmen controversy necessitates an explanation of the historical sites of contention that affect the Freedmen’s inclusion in the Nation. This essay critically examines the plasticity of memory – how both parties remember and forget the past in order to justify the present. It directly addresses the radically disparate interpretations of government documents by Indians and blacks, and how these readings of federal texts are constitutive of Seminole membership. The rigid adhesion to Indian blood by tribal governments marks a curious manifestation of sovereignty and self-determination. This dogged claim to autonomy and authenticity exemplifies a misapplied and dangerous discrimination hiding behind the mask of political ideology.
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