Domestic Subjects Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature Beth H. Piatote

Amid the decline of U.S. military campaigns against Native Americans in the late nineteenth century, assimilation policy arose as the new front in the Indian Wars, with its weapons the deployment of culture and law, and its locus the American Indian home and family. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Piatote tracks the double movement of literature and law in the contest over the aims of settler-national domestication and the defence of tribal-national culture, political rights, and territory.

Beth H. Piatote is assistant professor of Native American studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

"Beth Piatote's "Domestic Subjects" wonderfully explores the ambivalences, difficulties, and possibilities of living through the state-organized assault on Native peoples in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, offering readings that powerfully attend to the affective life of settler colonialism."--Mark Rifkin, University of North Carolina at Greensboro