Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte Hidatsa as-told-to memoir uncovers the humanity

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

and of the human being in context

who undertake to transform this complex

how they should act

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

Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte Hidatsa as-told-to memoir uncovers the humanityHow 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