Thayendanegea’s Indian History: Refusal and Indigenous Historical Consciousness in the Eighteenth-Century Eastern Woodlands

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CECS and Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies Research Seminar with Robbie Richardson, University of Glasgow

This talk will compare Indigenous conceptions of history from the eighteenth-century Eastern Woodlands with the rise of European Enlightenment historiography. David Hume famously described the period as 'the historical age' due to the wide readership for historical writing and corresponding production of books, and this talk will argue that Indigenous peoples resisted their representation in such writings as people without history or disappearing primitive subjects. It will show the ways that Indigenous peoples refused narrative or conjectural histories to maintain aesthetic, rhetorical, and temporal sovereignty, particularly through cultural objects.

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