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Laura Cornelius Kellogg was an eloquent and fierce voice in early
twentieth-century Native American affairs. An organizer, author,
playwright, performer, and linguist, Kellogg worked tirelessly for
Wisconsin Oneida cultural self-determination when efforts to
Americanize Native people reached their peak. She is best known for
her extraordinary book Our Democracy and the American Indian (1920)
and as a founding member of the Society of American Indians. In an
era of government policies aimed at assimilating Indian peoples and
erasing tribal identities, Kellogg supported a transition from
federal paternalism to self-government. She strongly advocated for
the restoration of tribal lands, which she considered vital for
keeping Native nations together and for obtaining economic security
and political autonomy. Although Kellogg was a controversial
figure, alternately criticized and championed by her
contemporaries, her work has endured in Oneida communitymemory and
among scholars in Native American studies, though it has not been
available to a broader audience. Ackley and Stanciu resurrect her
legacy in this comprehensive volume, which includes Kellogg's
writings, speeches, photographs, congressional testimonies, and
coverage in national and international newspapers of the time. In
an illuminating and richly detailed introduction, the editors show
how Kellogg's prescient thinking makes her one of the most
compelling Native intellectuals of her time.
Challenges the myth of the United States as a nation of immigrants
by bringing together two groups rarely read together: Native
Americans and Eastern European immigrants  In this cultural
history of Americanization during the Progressive Era, Cristina
Stanciu argues that new immigrants and Native Americans shaped the
intellectual and cultural debates over inclusion and exclusion,
challenging ideas of national belonging, citizenship, and literary
and cultural production. Deeply grounded in a wide-ranging archive
of Indigenous and new immigrant writing and visual
culture—including congressional acts, testimonies, news reports,
cartoons, poetry, fiction, and silent film—this book brings
together voices of Native and immigrant America. Â Stanciu
shows that, although Native Americans and new immigrants faced
different legal and cultural obstacles to citizenship, the
challenges they faced and their resistance to assimilation and
Americanization often ran along parallel paths. Both struggled
against idealized models of American citizenship that dominated
public spaces. Both participated in government-sponsored
Americanization efforts and worked to gain agency and sovereignty
while negotiating naturalization. Â Rethinking popular
understandings of Americanization, Stanciu argues that the new
immigrants and Native Americans at the heart of this book expanded
the narrow definitions of American identity.
Laura Cornelius Kellogg was an eloquent and fierce voice in early
twentieth century Native American affairs. An organizer, author,
playwright, performer, and linguist, Kellogg worked tirelessly for
Wisconsin Oneida cultural self-determination when efforts to
Americanize Native people reached their peak. She is best known for
her extraordinary book Our Democracy and the American Indian (1920)
and as a founding member of the Society of American Indians. In an
era of government policies aimed at assimilating Indian peoples and
erasing tribal identities, Kellogg supported a transition from
federal paternalism to self-government. She strongly advocated for
the restoration of tribal lands, which she considered vital for
keeping Native nations together and for obtaining economic security
and political autonomy. Although Kellogg was a controversial
figure, alternately criticized and championed by her
contemporaries, her work has endured in Oneida community memory and
among scholars in Native American studies, though it has not been
available to a broader audience. Ackley and Stanciu resurrect her
legacy in this comprehensive volume, which includes Kellogg's
writings, speeches, photographs, congressional testimonies, and
coverage in national and international newspapers of the time. In
an illuminating and richly detailed introduction, the editors show
how Kellogg's prescient thinking makes her one of the most
compelling Native intellectuals of her time.
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