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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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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Susan Burch is professor of American studies at Middlebury College.
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"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
“A must-read for anyone interested in the history of asylums and the ways those institutions have torn the fabric of people’s lives, leaving legacies of trauma in their wake. The book powerfully chronicles the resistance of the people incarcerated at Canton Asylum and the kin networks that led to their survivance and the survival of their memory.”—Anne E. Parsons, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
“A new model for engaged history, Committed sears through the story of Native people stolen from their communities and trammeled by racism within a federally run psychiatric facility.”—Katherine Ott, National Museum of American History