When did Indians become straight? : kinship, the history of sexuality, and native sovereignty

Rifkin, Mark 1974- (Author).

Summary: "When Did Indians Become Straight? explores the complex relationship between contested U.S. notions of normality and shifting forms of Native American governance and self-representation. Examining a wide range of texts (including captivity narratives, fiction, government documents, and anthropological tracts), Mark Rifkin offers a cultural and literary history of the ways Native peoples have been inserted into Euramerican discourses of sexuality and how Native intellectuals have sought to reaffirm their peoples' sovereignty and self-determination."--pub. website.

Record details

ISBN: 9780199755455 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0199755450 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780199755462 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0199755469 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
viii, 436 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- Reproducing the Indian: racial birth and native geopolitics in Narrative of the life of Mrs. Mary Jemison and Last of the Mohicans -- Adoption nation: Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Hendrick Aupaumut, and the boundaries of familial feeling -- Romancing kinship: Indian education, the allotment program, and Zitkala-sa's American Indian stories -- Allotment subjectivities and the administration of culture: Ella Deloria, Pine Ridge, and the Indian Reorganization Act -- Finding "our" history: gender, sexuality, and the space of peoplehood in Stone Butch Blues and Mohawk trail -- Tradition and the contemporary queer: sexuality, nationality, and history in Drowning in fire.