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This multidisciplinary collection of nine previously unpublished essays presents new research in three interlocking domains: tribal history with a special emphasis on Native women in the Southeast, language revitalization efforts and the narrative knowledge inherent in indigenous oral culture, and traditional educational systems in the context of the ongoing colonization of American Indian educational practices and values. This volume highlights Southeastern Indian issues and demonstrates the unique situation of women in tribes lacking (full) federal recognition or a more inclusive and multidisciplinary discussion of Native women in more than one tribal nation. Southeastern themes are linked with topics of concern by other tribal nations to show commonalities and raised awareness about the central experiences and contributions of Native women in the encounter and ongoing struggle with Euro-American systems of oppression and cultural erasure. This book spans the full gamut from naming women's experiences of historical trauma to their ongoing efforts at preserving and rebuilding their Native nations. The collection of essays is distinctive in its Indigenous hermeneutics in that it insists on a holistic view of time and place-based knowledge – the past still fully affects the present and gives the present depth and meaning beyond the linear flow of time. This book also features American Indian and non-American Indian scholars who are well known in American Indians studies, scholars beginning their career and scholars who, while not experts in American Indians studies, are considered experts in other disciplines and who recognize the unique attributes of Southeastern American Indian nations

Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Acknowledgments -- Gillian R. Overing and Ulrike Wiethaus: Introduction: The Making of American/Medieval -- Medievalism and the American/Medieval -- American/Medieval: The Challenge of Definition -- A/M: Old Trauma, New Archives, and Creatures on the Move -- New Archives -- Creatures on the Move -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Part One: Old Trauma -- Tina Marie Boyer: Medieval Imaginations and Internet Role-Playing Games -- Introduction -- Slender Man -- American Imaginations of the Medieval and Slender Man -- Bibliography -- Sol Miguel-Prendes: Medieval Iberian Studies: Borders, Bridges, Fences -- Boundaries -- Bridges -- Fences -- Bibliography -- Ulrike Wiethaus: "Yet another group of cowboys riding around the same old rock": Religion and the German-American Genesis of a Capitalist Stereotype -- Introduction -- From Mammon to Letzter Mensch -- Indigeneity and Doomed Pre-capitalist Wholeness -- The Natural Habitat, Race, and Sexual Threat of Homo capitalisticus -- The Puritan Spirit and the Desires of the Id -- Contemporary American Mutations of Medieval DNA -- Bibliography -- Part Two: New Archives -- Joshua Davies: "Beyond the Profane": Machine Gothic and the Cultural Memory of the Future -- Gothic Origins -- American Gothic -- Railroad Gothic -- Colonial Gothic -- Bibliography -- Mary Kate Hurley: "Scars of History": Game of Thrones and American Origin Stories -- Scars of History: Time, Nostalgia, and the Wounds of the Past -- Scars of Fantasy: Westerosi History and Time's Wounds -- Scars of Time: Martin's "Medieval" World -- Scars of History: Toward the American/Medieval -- Bibliography -- Gale Sigal: At What Price Arthur? Academic Autobiography, Medieval Studies, and the American Medieval -- Introduction -- In the Middle or On the Margins?