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Film, Video The Indians' Capital City: Native Histories of Washington DC

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Title

  • The Indians' Capital City: Native Histories of Washington DC

Summary

  • Kluge Fellow Joseph Genetin-Pilawa presents part of his larger study of the Indigenous histories of Washington, D.C. Genetin-Pilawa argues that far from the passive victims or violent interlopers depicted in much of the iconography of the capital, visiting Native diplomats and as well as residents in the 19th and 20th centuries engaged with the messages encoded on the urban landscape. In so doing, they challenged narratives of settler colonialism, claimed and reclaimed the space of the city, and shaped the development of the US capital as it evolved from a local village to a global metropolis.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2015-04-02.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Washington DC, native americans, history

Notes

  • -  Classification: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation.
  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Political Science.
  • -  Classification: Social Sciences.
  • -  Joseph Genetin-Pilawa.
  • -  Recorded on 2015-04-02.
  • -  Librarians, Archivists.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021689710

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. The Indians' Capital City: Native Histories of Washington DC. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-02, 2015. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689710/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2015) The Indians' Capital City: Native Histories of Washington DC. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-02. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689710/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. The Indians' Capital City: Native Histories of Washington DC. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-02, 2015. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021689710/>.