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How the Osage Nation Moves Indigenous Nationhood
into the Future
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Vital Relations How the Osage Nation Moves
Indigenous Nationhood into the Future (Critical
Indigeneities)
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Vital Relations How the Osage Nation Moves
Indigenous Nationhood into the Future (Critical
Indigeneities)
Sinopsis
Relationality is a core principle of Indigenous
studies, yet there is relatively little work
that assesses what building relations looks like
in practice, especially in the messy context of
Native nations' governance. Focusing on the
unique history and context of Osage nation
building efforts, this insightful ethnography
provides a deeper vision of the struggles Native
nation leaders are currently facing. Exploring
the Osage philosophy of moving to a new country
as a framework for relational governance, Jean
Dennison shows that for the Osage, nation
building is an ongoing process of reworking
colonial constraints to serve the nation's own
ends. As Dennison argues, Osage officials have
undertaken deliberate changes to strengthen
Osage relations to their language,
self-governance, health, and land8212coe needs
for a people to thrive now and into the future.
Scholars and future Indigenous leaders can learn
from the Osage Nation's past challenges,
strategies, and ongoing commitments to better
enact the difficult work of Indigenous nation
building.
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Vital Relations How the Osage Nation Moves
Indigenous Nationhood into the Future (Critical
Indigeneities)
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Vital Relations How the Osage Nation Moves
Indigenous
Nationhood
into
the
Future
(Critical
Indigeneities)
copy link in description
Relationality is a core principle of Indigenous
studies, yet there is relatively
little
work that
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assesses what building relations looks like in
practice, especially in the messy context
of Native nations' governance. Focusing on the
unique history and context of Osage nation
building efforts, this insightful ethnography
provides a deeper vision of the struggles Native
nation leaders are currently facing. Exploring
the Osage philosophy of moving to a new country
as a framework for relational governance, Jean
Dennison shows that for the Osage, nation
building is an ongoing process of reworking
colonial constraints to serve the nation's own
ends. As Dennison argues, Osage officials have
undertaken deliberate changes to strengthen
Osage relations to their language,
self-governance, health, and land8212coe needs
for a people to thrive now and into the future.
Scholars and future Indigenous leaders can learn
from the Osage Nation's past challenges,
strategies, and ongoing commitments to better
enact the difficult work of Indigenous nation
building.