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“Beyond All Age”: Indigenous Water Rights in Linda Hogan’s Fiction

“Beyond All Age”: Indigenous Water Rights in Linda Hogan’s Fiction "Beyond All Age" Indigenous Water Rights in Linda Hogan's Fiction Lindsey Claire Smith and Trever Lee Holland From the Mississippi Flood of 1927 to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita of 2005 to the bp oil spill of 2010, from the Flint, Michigan, water crisis of 2016 to drought conditions that have persisted for the past several years, environmental events have revealed water to be both a threatening curse and a threatened commodity. Amid these threats--and institutional responses to them--human beings strive not only to survive but also to conquer, an impulse that has intertwined claims to waters with the conquest of Native America. Waterways are thus a central emphasis in Linda Hogan's ecocritical works, which link water to tribes' exercise of sovereignty. Though Hogan's writings have been productively studied within the broader context of environmental literature, her renderings of Indigenous waters are also linked to the historical and legal challenges that her Chickasaw community has endured as it has sought to manage its waterways in Oklahoma. At present, the Chickasaws are embroiled in a high-stakes battle over access to water in Oklahoma, and the tribe's differences from Indigenous nations in the West, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in American Indian Literatures University of Nebraska Press

“Beyond All Age”: Indigenous Water Rights in Linda Hogan’s Fiction

Studies in American Indian Literatures , Volume 28 (2) – Aug 17, 2016

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"Beyond All Age" Indigenous Water Rights in Linda Hogan's Fiction Lindsey Claire Smith and Trever Lee Holland From the Mississippi Flood of 1927 to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita of 2005 to the bp oil spill of 2010, from the Flint, Michigan, water crisis of 2016 to drought conditions that have persisted for the past several years, environmental events have revealed water to be both a threatening curse and a threatened commodity. Amid these threats--and institutional responses to them--human beings strive not only to survive but also to conquer, an impulse that has intertwined claims to waters with the conquest of Native America. Waterways are thus a central emphasis in Linda Hogan's ecocritical works, which link water to tribes' exercise of sovereignty. Though Hogan's writings have been productively studied within the broader context of environmental literature, her renderings of Indigenous waters are also linked to the historical and legal challenges that her Chickasaw community has endured as it has sought to manage its waterways in Oklahoma. At present, the Chickasaws are embroiled in a high-stakes battle over access to water in Oklahoma, and the tribe's differences from Indigenous nations in the West,

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Studies in American Indian LiteraturesUniversity of Nebraska Press

Published: Aug 17, 2016

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