Committed
Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions
By Susan Burch
240 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 18 halftones, notes, bibl., index
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Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-6161-2
Published: April 2021 -
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-6162-9
Published: April 2021 -
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-6336-4
Published: February 2021
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Awards & distinctions
2021 Alison Piepmeier Book Prize, National Women's Studies Association
2022 Outstanding Book Award, Disability History Association
In this accessible and innovative work, Susan Burch tells the story of the Indigenous people—families, communities, and nations, across generations to the present day—who have experienced the impact of this history. Drawing on oral history interviews, correspondence, material objects, and archival sources, Burch reframes the histories of institutionalized people and the places that held them. Committed expands the boundaries of Native American history, disability studies, and U.S. social and cultural history generally.
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About the Author
Susan Burch is professor of American studies at Middlebury College.
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"A model of how to write histories that are as inclusive and broadly accessible as they are necessary."—H-Net
"Susan Burch's Committed is a pithy yet powerful read."—Law and History Review
"This slim volume packs a powerful punch. . . . Burch's theoretical framing of the subject is brilliant and encourages us to reckon with the history of psychiatric thought and its manifestation in institutional practice in new ways."—Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
"A short but powerful book. . . . Committed offers a case study of how Native American history should be researched and written."—Annals of Iowa
"By identifying institutionalized people, mostly women, whose stories could be patched together through archival records and contemporary oral history interviews, Burch brings them out of the shadows to underscore not only the human cost but also the human capacity for hope, healing, and survival under the worst of circumstances."—Journal of American History
"Committed is story and history. A much-needed public, intergenerational history unveils yet another mode of removal, incarceration, and violence against Indigenous women and families and the other side of it through the stories of descendants. A necessary read to understand the historic breadth and forms of Indian Removal."—Jacki T. Rand, University of Iowa