When Did Indians Become Straight?: Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty (Paperback)

Assistant Professor of English Mark Rifkin
Oxford University Press, USA
 9780199755462
0-19-975546-9

When Did Indians Become Straight? explores the complex relationship between contested U.S. notions of normality and shifting forms of Native American governance and self-representation. Examining a wide.

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range of texts (including captivity narratives, fiction, government documents, and anthropological tracts), Mark Rifkin offers a cultural and literary history of the ways Native peoples have been inserted into Euramerican discourses of sexuality and how Native intellectuals have sought to reaffirm their peoples' sovereignty and self-determination.