State-Making, Secession, and the Conquest of Illegibility: Renaming Indigenous People in the U.S., 1890-1910

• In Event: Indigenous Politics and Policy

Brief Overview

States promote assimilation to minimize sovereignty threats. I consider forced renaming of American Indians in motivating a testable typology that specifies conditions under which assimilation is expected to - and shown to - increase autonomy claims

Author

• Sonja Castaneda Dower, University of Chicago