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

Abstract

INTRODUCTION 1. Reproducing the Indian: Racial Birth and Native Geopolitics in Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison and Last of the Mohicans 2. Adoption Nation: Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Hendrick Aupaumut, and the Boundaries of Familial Feeling 3. Romancing Kinship: Indian Education, the Allotment Program, and Zitkala- 4. Allotment Subjectivities and the Administration of Culture: Ella Deloria, Pine Ridge, and the Indian Reorganization Act 5. Finding Our History: Gender, Sexuality, and the Space of Peoplehood in Stone Butch Blues and Mohawk Trail 6. Tradition and the Contemporary Queer: Sexuality, Nationality, and History in Drowning in Fire