Abstract:
The stories of Native Americans who crossed the US-Mexico and US-Canada borders as immigrants and refugees in the 19th and 20th centuries offer significant lessons for our modern world. Key among them is the importance of training ourselves to see, in the midst of social crises, uniquely vulnerable populations that national policies and programs overlook or misunderstand.
In this talk, Prof. Brenden Rensink will compare relevant histories of Yaqui, Cree, and Chippewa Indians from his award-winning 2018 book, Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands.
The lecture is open for all.
About the speaker:
Brenden W. Rensink (Ph.D., 2010) is Associate Director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University.
He is author of the award-winning book Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands (2018), author, co-author, editor, and co-editor of multiple books and articles on the histories of the American West, borderlands, Indigenous peoples, genocide studies, and religion, Project Manager and General Editor of the Intermountain Histories digital public history project, and Host and Producer of the Writing Westward Podcast.
Connected event:
Area Studies Guest Lecture #2: Brenden Rensink
Wednesday, August 30, 10.15-11.30, Scene HumSam, Georg Sverdrups hus, Universitetsbiblioteket
Contact: Stefan Rabitsch