Baum & Harris, eds., Racially Writing the Republic Duke U. Press, 2009
Cari Carpenter, Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians The Ohio State U. Press, 2008
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Must this nation's founding narrative be premised on white European superiority and their "civilizing" mission? Cari Carpenter finds in Sarah Winnemucca's book Life Among the Piutes both an alternative origin story of the US and a direct challenge to the myth of the vanishing Indian. Also, Andrea Smith talks about the role of indigenous ideas in anti-violence movement theorizing.