TY - JOUR
AU - Wisecup, Kelly
AB - ALH Online Review, Series XLII 587 Christen Mucher, Before American History: Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022), 402 pp. Reviewed by Kelly Wisecup, Northwestern University In 2019, the Chicago Architectural Biennial featured two works by the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana and CHamoru architect known as X: two earthworks that he constructed proximate to rivers flowing through the city currently called Chicago. Fololokah Cin Cinto (Coiled Serpent) and Pokto + into (Serpent Twin) reference other earthworks, those downriver at Cahokia and those that existed in Chicago before settlers demolished them. Yet X insisted that the newly constructed earthworks were not replicas of past architectural structures but places for considering the ancient past and the future together: “This is also a way of restoring Indigenous place-making and will function as a reminder that the architectural world in America predates what we see now. And, moreover, the structures that we build today will have a post-industrial life—we need to think about reciprocity with the earth as we build on it.” (“One mound at a time, “ 2019) How was that ancient Indigenous world severed from the present and the future in settler colonial historical consciousness? What is 
TI - Christen Mucher, Before American History: Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession
JF - American Literary History
DO - 10.1093/alh/ajae019
DA - 2024-05-16
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/christen-mucher-before-american-history-nationalist-mythmaking-and-1rz0rFXPfQ
SP - 587
EP - 590
VL - 36
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -