“Something is happening”: Socializing 19th-century Dakota ancestors through travels and conversation
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2021.
Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : Several hundreds of Dakotas were massacred at Whitestone Hill in 1863, in present-day North Dakota. In this article I endeavor to show what happens after some of these victims attempted, in 2017, to contact one of their descendant, Joel, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. A participant in some of the trips that Joel took in 2019 to address the problems raised by the irruption of his massacred forebears, I propose to retrace these itineraries and show how, certain that something was happening but unclear as to how he should deal with it, Joel still found ways to make room for his ancestors in his world. Half-ethnography of kinship, half-ethnography of spirits, this paper especially tries to address the problem of improvisation.
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Several hundreds of Dakotas were massacred at Whitestone Hill in 1863, in present-day North Dakota. In this article I endeavor to show what happens after some of these victims attempted, in 2017, to contact one of their descendant, Joel, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. A participant in some of the trips that Joel took in 2019 to address the problems raised by the irruption of his massacred forebears, I propose to retrace these itineraries and show how, certain that something was happening but unclear as to how he should deal with it, Joel still found ways to make room for his ancestors in his world. Half-ethnography of kinship, half-ethnography of spirits, this paper especially tries to address the problem of improvisation.
Réseaux sociaux