Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte children and assimilation: a necessary antidote

and assimilation: a necessary antidote to the conventional history of the Americas

an eighty-year-old Lakota woman living in a log cabin with no running water

the "keeping of the soul

An abandoned yearling moose is cared for by children who find him crying for his mother

Raised on a Sioux reservation

Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte children and assimilation: a necessary antidoteHow 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