Carlos Montezuma’s Fight against “Bureauism”: An Unexpected Pima Hero

Martínez, David

doi:10.1353/aiq.2013.0027

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“…Unlike Eastman, he opposed the reservation system. He also advocated for the abolition of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which he saw as an instrument of segregation that stood against indigenous freedom (Crandall, 2018; Martinez, 2013). Montezuma promoted pan-Indianism as a project of emancipation, criticizing the SAI for supporting the Bureau in maintaining Native Americans in a relationship of political and moral dependency on the federal government (Arvo, 2018; Newmark, 2013).…”

Section: Indigenous Progressive Movements In Early 20th Century In the Usmentioning

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Dynamics of indigenous identification and performance in the early twentieth century: The life and performances of Chief Caupolican as Mapuche and immigrant (1876–1968)

Garrido

Chan

2021

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Chief Caupolican is Emile Barrangon, an early 20th-century performer in the US who was born in Chile to an indigenous Mapuche father and a French mother. Despite his fame, he has not yet been included in studies on indigenous agency in Native American representations, likely because of his immigrant origins. We situate his indigenous self-identification and media success within the broader context of ongoing pan-indigenous activism in the country and Native Americans’ efforts to engage indigenous representations in the media. The pan-indigenous movement that sought to unify indigenous political claims, regardless of tribal affiliation, enabled and encouraged foreign-born aborigines and persons of mixed ancestry to identify with indigeneity in ways that transcend nation-state borders. By presenting and examining his multi-faceted life, performance, and political views, this article contributes to better understanding the complex dynamics of the indigenous performance landscape in the early 20th century.

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Section: Indigenous Progressive Movements In Early 20th Century In the Usmentioning

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Dynamics of indigenous identification and performance in the early twentieth century: The life and performances of Chief Caupolican as Mapuche and immigrant (1876–1968)

Garrido

Chan

2021

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“…Montezuma’s opposition to what he labeled “Bureauism” led him to a specific vision of what Bureau abolition entailed (Martinez 2013). As an admirer of Richard Henry Pratt’s theory that Indians must immediately be removed from the environment of the reservation, educated in off-reservation boarding schools, and de-tribalized through exposure to white social norms, Montezuma believed that the gradualist efforts to “prepare” Indians for citizenship that the moderate reformers entertained actually stifled independence and initiative (Montezuma 1916).…”

Section: Progressive Pan-indigenous Political Theorymentioning

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Our Democracy: Laura Cornelius Kellogg’s Decolonial-Democracy

Temin¹

2020

Perspect. polit.

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In recent years, a growing body of political science scholarship has shown how territorial expansion and Indigenous dispossession profoundly shaped American democratic ideas and institutions. However, scant attention has been paid to Indigenous thinkers and activists who have reshaped the colonial and imperial facets of democracy. I reconstruct the writings of the Oneida thinker and activist Laura Cornelius Kellogg (1880–1947). I contend that Kellogg offers a political theory of “decolonial-democracy,” which challenged settler-imperial domination by bringing together a project of Indigenous self-determination with reimagined democratic narratives, values, and institutions. The first and second sections place Kellogg in pan-Indigenous debates within the Society of American Indians and among non-Indigenous Progressive reformers, in order to show how she brings together a pan-Indigenous and social-democratic critique of American democracy. The third section interprets her landmark 1920 pamphlet Our Democracy and the American Indian as a counter-narrative of the American founding read through the disavowed influence of the Haudenosaunee confederacy, a return to which she casts as a basis for democratic and Indigenous renewal. The final section outlines her vision of Indigenous self-government as “Indian communism” in the form of her “Lolomi Plan.” In sum, I trace a counter-politics envisioning a form of relational self-determination within a confederated, multinational political order, as well as the difficulty of bringing decolonization together with democracy in practice.

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Battles, Syntheses, Revisions, and Prophecies: Histories and Modernities in the Phoenix Indian School's <em>Native American</em>, 1901–1916

Bess¹

2017

Studies in American Indian Literatures

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Carlos Montezuma’s Fight against “Bureauism”: An Unexpected Pima Hero

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

Dynamics of indigenous identification and performance in the early twentieth century: The life and performances of Chief Caupolican as Mapuche and immigrant (1876–1968)

Dynamics of indigenous identification and performance in the early twentieth century: The life and performances of Chief Caupolican as Mapuche and immigrant (1876–1968)

Our Democracy: Laura Cornelius Kellogg’s Decolonial-Democracy

Battles, Syntheses, Revisions, and Prophecies: Histories and Modernities in the Phoenix Indian School's <em>Native American</em>, 1901–1916

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