We met to discuss chapters 3 and 4 in To Remain an Indian. Amy went through the two chapters explaining how the authors discussed how the arts and songs were "domesticated" to create the "safe zone" around notions of the Other as Native American. The chapters also discussed how N-A's carved out spaces of "Indian-ness' despite such efforts at domestication and cultural oppression.
We then talked a little about what methodology this book represented as an "exemplar." We talked about interpretivism, document analysis, and phenomenology before talking more at length about Foucauldian lenses- particularly the conscious weaving of story and "fact" to trouble an "official" history as well as the authors stated desire to "find the overlooked, recovering what has been suppressed, and recognizing the unexpected requires excavation, rehabilitation, and imagination. All history does." (pg 15).
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