Urban Homelands: Writing the Native City from Oklahoma Smith Lindsey Claire
Urban Homelands: Writing the Native City from Oklahoma Smith Lindsey Claire Oklahoma is bound to both the South and Southwest and their legacies of conquest and Indigenous survivance. Tulsa, New…
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Urban Homelands: Writing the Native City from Oklahoma Smith Lindsey Claire
Oklahoma is bound to both the South and Southwest and their legacies of conquest and Indigenous survivance. Tulsa, New Orleans, and Santa Fe, with their importance in histories of geopolitical upheaval and mobility that shaped the establishment of the United States, are key to uncovering the history of urbanization experienced by Native Americans from Oklahoma.Urban Homelands, while examining the overlooked histories of Oklahoma Indigenous urbanization relative to these regions, engages literature and film as not just mirrors of experience but as producers of it. At the same time, mobility, ingenuity, cultural exchange, and creative expression--all part of the experience of urbanization--have been fundamental to people of the tribes that call this place home.
Lindsey Claire Smith brings the work of three-time poet laureate Joy Harjo into conversation with the great Cherokee