When Did Indians Become Straight?: Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty

by Mark Rifkin

When Did Indians Become Straight? explores the complex relationship between contested U.S. notions of normality and shifting forms of Native American governance and self-representation. Examining a wide range of texts (including captivity narratives, fiction, government documents, and anthropological tracts), Mark Rifkin offers a cultural and literary history of the ways Native peoples have been inserted into Euramerican discourses of sexuality and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199755469
• ISBN13: 9780199755462
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 8.9"