This presentation revisits maps and material culture collections in local museums, historical societies, and archives across the Northeast to explore two intertwined threads: how these sources can illuminate histories of Euro-colonial impacts across Indigenous homelands; and how they may convey vital Indigenous critiques, resistances, and ongoing relationships with homelands and sovereignties. The talk invites reflections on the active links between past, present, and future, and twenty-first century possibilities for engaging heritage materials in new ways.
This talk is presented with additional support from Dinse.
Christine DeLucia is Associate Professor of History at Williams College. Her book Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast (2018) won awards from the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Massachusetts Historical Society, and New England American Studies Association, and honorable mention from the National Council on Public History. She teaches and is involved in public humanities projects centering material culture, place-based ways of knowing and remembering, and decolonial approaches.
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The “Elephant in the Room” lecture series is presented with support from Vermont Humanities.
