During the Standing Rock Sioux protest against the Dakota Access
Pipeline, an activist observed, "Forced removal isn't just in the
history books." Sabine N. Meyer concurs, noting the prominence of
Indian Removal, the nineteenth-century policy of expelling Native
peoples from their land, in Native American aesthetic and political
praxis across the centuries. Removal has functioned both as a
specific set of historical events and a synecdoche for settler
colonial dispossession of Indigenous communities across hemispheres
and generations. It has generated a plethora of Native American
writings that negotiate forms of belonging-the identities of Native
collectives, their proprietary relationships, and their most
intimate relations among one another. By analyzing these writings
in connection with domestic settler colonial, international, and
tribal law, Meyer reveals their coherence as a distinct genre of
Native literature that has played a significant role in negotiating
Indigenous identity. Critically engaging with Native Removal
writings across the centuries, Meyer's work shows how these texts
need to be viewed as articulations of Native identity that respond
to immediate political concerns and that take up the question of
how Native peoples can define and assert their own social,
cultural, and legal-political forms of living, being, and belonging
within the settler colonial order. Placing novels in conversation
with nonfiction writings, Native Removal Writing ranges from texts
produced in response to the legal and political struggle over
Cherokee Removal in the late 1820s and 1830s, to works written by
African-Native writers dealing with the freedmen disenrollment
crisis, to contemporary speculative fiction that links the
appropriation of Native intangible property (culture) with the
earlier dispossession of their real property (land). In close,
contextualized readings of John Rollin Ridge, John Milton Oskison,
Robert Conley, Diane Glancy, Sharon Ewell Foster, Zelda Lockhart,
and Gerald Vizenor, as well as politicians and scholars such as
John Ross, Elias Boudinot, and Rachel Caroline Eaton, Meyer
identifies the links these writers create between historical past,
narrative present, and political future. Native Removal Writing
thus testifies to both the ongoing power of Native Removal writing
and its significance as resistance.
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