Alyssa Mt Pleasant
Biographic Data
| ID | 768429 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alyssa Mt Pleasant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alyssa Mt |
| FAMILY NAME | Pleasant |
| SIGNATURE | PLEASANT A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, SUNY [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Campuses, Colonialism, and Land Grabs before Morrill
Campuses, Colonialism, and Land Grabs before Morrill Alyssa MT. Pleasant (bio) and Stephen Kantrowitz (bio) readers of the articles and materials included in the Land-Grab Universities (LGU) project learn about the financial machinations and land expropriation at the heart of the Morrill Act's financing of land-grant universities across the United States. Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone's important investigative reporting illuminates a range of rel…
Contexts for Critique
David Silverman offers a critical appraisal of two prizewinning works in Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS), Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War, by Lisa Brooks, and Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, by Christine M. DeLucia. Silverman's review treats the methodology associated with NAIS with some skepticism, offering the opportunity for a lively discussion about the merits and p…
Materials and Methods in Native American and Indigenous Studies
Nearly two centuries ago, Native scholars and activists published calls for histories of their people that emphasized their humanity and agency and engaged Indigenous intellectual traditions. Renewing and extending their calls, this William and Mary Quarterly and Early American Literature joint Forum challenges early American studies to embrace the materials and methods of Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS). In the Forum introduction, …
Emotional Labor and Precarity in Native American and Indigenous Studies
On Familiarity, Settler Colonialism, and Shifting Narratives
On Familiarity, Settler Colonialism, and Shifting Narratives Alyssa Mt. Pleasant (bio) A response to Arini Loader, "'Kei Wareware': Remembering Te Rauparaha." Biography 39.3 (Summer 2016): 339–65 I am a historian whose research focuses on nineteenth century Haudenosaunee history.1 Vast geographic distance separates the "people building a longhouse" I write about from the Ngāti Toa Rangatira people Arini Loader discusses in her essay. Haudenosaune…
Independence for Whom
Salt, Sand, and Sweetgrass
Salt, Sand, and SweetgrassMethodologies for Exploring the Seasonal Basket Trade in Southern Maine Alyssa Mt. Pleasant (bio) On an early summer evening in 2001, visitors knocked on the door of the Elizabeth Bishop Perkins House along the York River in Maine. Susan Lewey and her husband, Passamaquoddy people who were working as itinerant construction laborers in the region, wanted to speak with the people who lived in the house. They had been fishi…
Materials and Methods in Native American and Indigenous Studies
Nearly two centuries ago, Native scholars and activists published calls for histories of their people that emphasized their humanity and agency and engaged Indigenous intellectual traditions. Renewing and extending their calls, this William and Mary Quarterly and Early American Literature joint Forum challenges early American studies to embrace the materials and methods of Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS). In the Forum introduction, …
Salt, Sand, and Sweetgrass
Salt, Sand, and SweetgrassMethodologies for Exploring the Seasonal Basket Trade in Southern Maine Alyssa Mt. Pleasant (bio) On an early summer evening in 2001, visitors knocked on the door of the Elizabeth Bishop Perkins House along the York River in Maine. Susan Lewey and her husband, Passamaquoddy people who were working as itinerant construction laborers in the region, wanted to speak with the people who lived in the house. They had been fishi…
Salt, Sand, and Sweetgrass
Salt, Sand, and SweetgrassMethodologies for Exploring the Seasonal Basket Trade in Southern Maine Alyssa Mt. Pleasant (bio) On an early summer evening in 2001, visitors knocked on the door of the Elizabeth Bishop Perkins House along the York River in Maine. Susan Lewey and her husband, Passamaquoddy people who were working as itinerant construction laborers in the region, wanted to speak with the people who lived in the house. They had been fishi…
Independence for Whom
Emotional Labor and Precarity in Native American and Indigenous Studies
On Familiarity, Settler Colonialism, and Shifting Narratives
On Familiarity, Settler Colonialism, and Shifting Narratives Alyssa Mt. Pleasant (bio) A response to Arini Loader, "'Kei Wareware': Remembering Te Rauparaha." Biography 39.3 (Summer 2016): 339–65 I am a historian whose research focuses on nineteenth century Haudenosaunee history.1 Vast geographic distance separates the "people building a longhouse" I write about from the Ngāti Toa Rangatira people Arini Loader discusses in her essay. Haudenosaune…
Materials and Methods in Native American and Indigenous Studies
Nearly two centuries ago, Native scholars and activists published calls for histories of their people that emphasized their humanity and agency and engaged Indigenous intellectual traditions. Renewing and extending their calls, this William and Mary Quarterly and Early American Literature joint Forum challenges early American studies to embrace the materials and methods of Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS). In the Forum introduction, …
Contexts for Critique
David Silverman offers a critical appraisal of two prizewinning works in Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS), Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War, by Lisa Brooks, and Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, by Christine M. DeLucia. Silverman's review treats the methodology associated with NAIS with some skepticism, offering the opportunity for a lively discussion about the merits and p…
Campuses, Colonialism, and Land Grabs before Morrill
Campuses, Colonialism, and Land Grabs before Morrill Alyssa MT. Pleasant (bio) and Stephen Kantrowitz (bio) readers of the articles and materials included in the Land-Grab Universities (LGU) project learn about the financial machinations and land expropriation at the heart of the Morrill Act's financing of land-grant universities across the United States. Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone's important investigative reporting illuminates a range of rel…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Indigenous (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works)