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Book Review
| Remember This! Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives. By Waziyatawin Angela Wilson. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xii + 277 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00, £41.95, cloth; $29.95, £22.95, paper.)
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Taking on American historiography, Dakota historian Waziyatawin Angela Wilson challenges standard Native American histories by offering a Dakota meaning of the past that privileges oral tradition. In doing so, Wilson expands the definition of history, demonstrates how one writes a history founded upon a Native perception of the past, and begins a much-needed dialogue between indigenous people and the people who study them. |
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