When Did Indians Become Straight?

Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty

• Author(s): Mark Rifkin,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 440
• ISBN_10: 0190454121
  ISBN_13: 9780190454128
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies , History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) , Literary Criticism / General ,

Description:... 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 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.