Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte children " and the collisions and

" and the collisions and collusions between queer theory and colonialism within Indigenous studies

Born on the Standing Rock reservation in South Dakota in 1896

and abuse they had endured

and assimilation: a necessary antidote to the conventional history of the Americas

an eighty-year-old Lakota woman living in a log cabin with no running water

Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte children " and the collisions andHow authors rendered Dakhta philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveillance state. Translated Nation examines literary works and oral histories by Dakhta intellectuals from the aftermath of the 1862 U. S. Dakota War to the present day, highlighting creative Dakhta responses to violences of the settler colonial state. Christopher Pexa argues that the assimilation era of federal