Drew Lopenzina
Biographic Data
| ID | 456621 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Drew Lopenzina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Drew |
| FAMILY NAME | Lopenzina |
| SIGNATURE | LOPENZINA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Old Dominion University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Inscribing Sovereignties
Phillip H. Round's new book follows in a line of intellectual enquiries over the last 20 years, including Hilary Wyss’ Writing Indians (2003), Lisa Brooks’ The Common Pot (2008), my own Red Ink (2012), and Round's previous monograph, Removable Type (2010), that delve into the nature of the written word and how it worked within the context of settler colonialism to transform Indigenous lives on the North American continent. As established by these…
From Plymouth Rock to Standing Rock
This chapter locates a throughline of Indigenous resistance to settler dominance that stretches from the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth to the 2016 NoDAPL movement on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. It is a throughline marked not by warfare and violence, but by diplomacy and strategic action founded in traditional Indigenous responses to the irresponsible use of power. Recognizing how Native peoples, across many cultures and regions, we…
The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature
Race is central to American history. It is impossible to understand the United States without understanding how race has been defined and deployed at every stage of the nation's history. Offering a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the history of race, The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature shows how this history has been represented in literature, and how those representations have influenced American culture. Written…
“This Politick Salvage”
This essay proposes that politics, diplomacy, and a desire for peace were defining markers of Indigenous cultural and literary engagements. European settlers arriving on this continent with an eye toward possessing it wrote off Native peoples as savage and unqualified stakeholders in the “New World” they were forging. The colonial archive, however, almost in spite of itself, turns up repeated instances of Indigenous overtures of peace, presented …
Translated Nation
Journal Article Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte. Christopher Pexa Get access Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte. Christopher Pexa. U of Minnesota P, 2019. xv + 311 pages. $100.00 cloth; $25.00 paper. Drew Lopenzina Drew Lopenzina Old Dominion University, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 47, Issue 2, Summer 2022, Pages 225–227, https://doi.…
Who Lies Buried in Satanta's Tomb? Co-memorating a Kiowa Warrior
The Kiowa leader Satanta gained a reputation in the 1860s and 1870s as the most reviled Native figure on the western plains—public enemy number one to post–Civil War generals like William Tecumseh Sherman and Philip Sheridan, who viewed the very existence of Native people as an expendable impediment to white expansion. Satanta's incarceration at the Huntsville penitentiary in Texas was considered an innovative approach to America's ongoing "India…
William Apess Was Born Here”
“William Apess Was Born Here”Marking William Apess on the Geographical and Cultural Map Drew Lopenzina (bio) He pitched his tent in the woods of a town called Colrain. William Apess, A Son of the Forest Were you to drive into Colrain, Massachusetts, today, however hard you might look, you would find no marker recognizing the town as the birthplace of nineteenth-century Pequot activist, author, and minister William Apess. The employees at the town…
Letter from Barnstable Jail
Letter from Barnstable Jail:William Apess and the “Memorial of the Mashpee Indians” Drew Lopenzina (bio) from mid-september to mid-october of 1833 the Pequot activist, writer, and Methodist minister William Apess served out a jail sentence of thirty days, having been found guilty of “inciting a riot” as a result of his attempts to advocate for the rights of the Mashpee Wampanoag at Mashpee on Cape Cod. Apess used his time in prison, among other t…
That Dream Shall Have a Name
Book Review| January 01 2015 That Dream Shall Have a Name: Native Americans Rewriting America That Dream Shall Have a Name: Native Americans Rewriting America. By Moore, David L.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013. $45.00 paper.) Drew Lopenzina Drew Lopenzina Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (1): 190–191. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2821865 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures …
The Wedding of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
The Wedding of Pocahontas and John RolfeHow to Keep the Thrill Alive after Four Hundred Years of Marriage Drew Lopenzina (bio) Here you come again, asking. Do you see we have nothing to give, we have given like the ground, our mountains rubbed bare by hybrid black poisons concocted from tobacco. —Karenne Wood, “Jamestown” And how many times did I pluck you From certain death in the wilderness— —Paula Gunn Allen, “Pocahontas to Her English Husband…
Recontextualizing Contact
Recontextualizing Contact:American Origin Stories Drew Lopenzina (bio) English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830. By Hilary E. Wyss. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 272 pages. $53.96 (cloth). Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England. By Jean M. O’Brien. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. 320 pages. $67.50 (cloth). $22.50 …
New Lights” in the Forest
“New Lights” in the Forest Drew Lopenzina (bio) The Brothertown Nation of Indians: Land, Ownership, and Nationalism in Early America, 1740–1840. By Brad D. E. Jarvis. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. 341 pages. $45.00 (cloth). The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan: Leadership and Literature in Eighteenth-Century America. Edited by Joanna Brooks. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 445 pages. $50.00 (cloth). Red Brethren…
Red Ink
I would like to thank my family, friends and the members of my dissertation committee for their help, understanding, guidance and patience throughout this project.Special mention must go out to Barbara Morrison who has stood alongside through all the difficult hours, to Dylan and Amelia whose time with their father was forever compromised, though they never complained, to Siobhan Senier for her careful readings, insight and patient advice over oc…
What to the American Indian Is the Fourth of July? Moving beyond Abolitionist Rhetoric in William Apess's Eulogy on King Philip
Nineteenth-century Pequot minister William Apess has appeared to many readers over the years as a Native American figure who fully assimilated into the expectations of the dominant culture, his role as Christian minister placing an insuperable distance between him and the traditions of his people. More recently, critics have come to find in Apess a radical voice latching on to the power of the pulpit and the rhetoric of the abolitionist movement …
Our Fire Survives the Storm
Reviewed by: Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History, and: The Truth about Stories: A Native Narrative Drew Lopenzina Daniel Heath Justice. Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. 296 pp. Paper, $20.00. Thomas King. The Truth about Stories: A Native Narrative. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. 184 pp. Cloth, $24.95. Our Fire Survives the Storm is …
The Whole Wilderness Shall Blossom As the Rose
This article investigates the formation of two wilderness communities that sprang up in proximity to one another on the American frontier in the late eighteenth century. Cooperstown, founded by William Cooper, the speculator/politician father of James Fenimore Cooper, comes to epitomize the American frontier spirit and produces archetypal narrative templates that remain stubbornly rooted in our national psyche to this day. Brotherton, founded by …
Good Indian
My father added: "I am glad that my son is strong and brave. Your brothers have adopted the white man's way; I came for you to learn this new way, too; and I want you to grow up a good man." Charles Eastman, Indian Boyhood The only good Indian is a dead Indian. Old White Man's Saying Charles Alexander Eastman remains an enigmatic figure in the early days of American Indian activism—a man whose contributions, while unimpeachable in terms of devoti…
Red Ink
I would like to thank my family, friends and the members of my dissertation committee for their help, understanding, guidance and patience throughout this project.Special mention must go out to Barbara Morrison who has stood alongside through all the difficult hours, to Dylan and Amelia whose time with their father was forever compromised, though they never complained, to Siobhan Senier for her careful readings, insight and patient advice over oc…
What to the American Indian Is the Fourth of July? Moving beyond Abolitionist Rhetoric in William Apess's Eulogy on King Philip
Nineteenth-century Pequot minister William Apess has appeared to many readers over the years as a Native American figure who fully assimilated into the expectations of the dominant culture, his role as Christian minister placing an insuperable distance between him and the traditions of his people. More recently, critics have come to find in Apess a radical voice latching on to the power of the pulpit and the rhetoric of the abolitionist movement …
Good Indian
My father added: "I am glad that my son is strong and brave. Your brothers have adopted the white man's way; I came for you to learn this new way, too; and I want you to grow up a good man." Charles Eastman, Indian Boyhood The only good Indian is a dead Indian. Old White Man's Saying Charles Alexander Eastman remains an enigmatic figure in the early days of American Indian activism—a man whose contributions, while unimpeachable in terms of devoti…
The Whole Wilderness Shall Blossom As the Rose
This article investigates the formation of two wilderness communities that sprang up in proximity to one another on the American frontier in the late eighteenth century. Cooperstown, founded by William Cooper, the speculator/politician father of James Fenimore Cooper, comes to epitomize the American frontier spirit and produces archetypal narrative templates that remain stubbornly rooted in our national psyche to this day. Brotherton, founded by …
Our Fire Survives the Storm
Reviewed by: Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History, and: The Truth about Stories: A Native Narrative Drew Lopenzina Daniel Heath Justice. Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. 296 pp. Paper, $20.00. Thomas King. The Truth about Stories: A Native Narrative. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. 184 pp. Cloth, $24.95. Our Fire Survives the Storm is …
What to the American Indian Is the Fourth of July? Moving beyond Abolitionist Rhetoric in William Apess's Eulogy on King Philip
Nineteenth-century Pequot minister William Apess has appeared to many readers over the years as a Native American figure who fully assimilated into the expectations of the dominant culture, his role as Christian minister placing an insuperable distance between him and the traditions of his people. More recently, critics have come to find in Apess a radical voice latching on to the power of the pulpit and the rhetoric of the abolitionist movement …
New Lights” in the Forest
“New Lights” in the Forest Drew Lopenzina (bio) The Brothertown Nation of Indians: Land, Ownership, and Nationalism in Early America, 1740–1840. By Brad D. E. Jarvis. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. 341 pages. $45.00 (cloth). The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan: Leadership and Literature in Eighteenth-Century America. Edited by Joanna Brooks. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 445 pages. $50.00 (cloth). Red Brethren…
Red Ink
I would like to thank my family, friends and the members of my dissertation committee for their help, understanding, guidance and patience throughout this project.Special mention must go out to Barbara Morrison who has stood alongside through all the difficult hours, to Dylan and Amelia whose time with their father was forever compromised, though they never complained, to Siobhan Senier for her careful readings, insight and patient advice over oc…
The Wedding of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
The Wedding of Pocahontas and John RolfeHow to Keep the Thrill Alive after Four Hundred Years of Marriage Drew Lopenzina (bio) Here you come again, asking. Do you see we have nothing to give, we have given like the ground, our mountains rubbed bare by hybrid black poisons concocted from tobacco. —Karenne Wood, “Jamestown” And how many times did I pluck you From certain death in the wilderness— —Paula Gunn Allen, “Pocahontas to Her English Husband…
Recontextualizing Contact
Recontextualizing Contact:American Origin Stories Drew Lopenzina (bio) English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830. By Hilary E. Wyss. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 272 pages. $53.96 (cloth). Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England. By Jean M. O’Brien. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. 320 pages. $67.50 (cloth). $22.50 …
That Dream Shall Have a Name
Book Review| January 01 2015 That Dream Shall Have a Name: Native Americans Rewriting America That Dream Shall Have a Name: Native Americans Rewriting America. By Moore, David L.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013. $45.00 paper.) Drew Lopenzina Drew Lopenzina Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (1): 190–191. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2821865 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures …
Letter from Barnstable Jail
Letter from Barnstable Jail:William Apess and the “Memorial of the Mashpee Indians” Drew Lopenzina (bio) from mid-september to mid-october of 1833 the Pequot activist, writer, and Methodist minister William Apess served out a jail sentence of thirty days, having been found guilty of “inciting a riot” as a result of his attempts to advocate for the rights of the Mashpee Wampanoag at Mashpee on Cape Cod. Apess used his time in prison, among other t…
William Apess Was Born Here”
“William Apess Was Born Here”Marking William Apess on the Geographical and Cultural Map Drew Lopenzina (bio) He pitched his tent in the woods of a town called Colrain. William Apess, A Son of the Forest Were you to drive into Colrain, Massachusetts, today, however hard you might look, you would find no marker recognizing the town as the birthplace of nineteenth-century Pequot activist, author, and minister William Apess. The employees at the town…
Who Lies Buried in Satanta's Tomb? Co-memorating a Kiowa Warrior
The Kiowa leader Satanta gained a reputation in the 1860s and 1870s as the most reviled Native figure on the western plains—public enemy number one to post–Civil War generals like William Tecumseh Sherman and Philip Sheridan, who viewed the very existence of Native people as an expendable impediment to white expansion. Satanta's incarceration at the Huntsville penitentiary in Texas was considered an innovative approach to America's ongoing "India…
“This Politick Salvage”
This essay proposes that politics, diplomacy, and a desire for peace were defining markers of Indigenous cultural and literary engagements. European settlers arriving on this continent with an eye toward possessing it wrote off Native peoples as savage and unqualified stakeholders in the “New World” they were forging. The colonial archive, however, almost in spite of itself, turns up repeated instances of Indigenous overtures of peace, presented …
Translated Nation
Journal Article Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte. Christopher Pexa Get access Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte. Christopher Pexa. U of Minnesota P, 2019. xv + 311 pages. $100.00 cloth; $25.00 paper. Drew Lopenzina Drew Lopenzina Old Dominion University, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 47, Issue 2, Summer 2022, Pages 225–227, https://doi.…
From Plymouth Rock to Standing Rock
This chapter locates a throughline of Indigenous resistance to settler dominance that stretches from the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth to the 2016 NoDAPL movement on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. It is a throughline marked not by warfare and violence, but by diplomacy and strategic action founded in traditional Indigenous responses to the irresponsible use of power. Recognizing how Native peoples, across many cultures and regions, we…
The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature
Race is central to American history. It is impossible to understand the United States without understanding how race has been defined and deployed at every stage of the nation's history. Offering a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the history of race, The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature shows how this history has been represented in literature, and how those representations have influenced American culture. Written…
Inscribing Sovereignties
Phillip H. Round's new book follows in a line of intellectual enquiries over the last 20 years, including Hilary Wyss’ Writing Indians (2003), Lisa Brooks’ The Common Pot (2008), my own Red Ink (2012), and Round's previous monograph, Removable Type (2010), that delve into the nature of the written word and how it worked within the context of settler colonialism to transform Indigenous lives on the North American continent. As established by these…
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