Locating the Mississippi
Landscape, Nature, and National Territoriality at the Mississippi Headwaters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3036280 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rich Heyman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 303-333 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0678 • E-ISSN: 1080-6490 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/aq.0.0137 |
| OpenAlex | W1963912851 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 18 |
This study of the scientific production of nature at the Mississippi headwaters at Lake Itasca, Minnesota shows how national imaginings of geography were territorialized in the landscape and made available to an imagined national community. The exploration of the Mississippi, the establishment of its source, and the creation and maintenance of the headwaters landscape are all part of the geographic project of making the territory of the nation appear as a collection of timeless natural objects, a cultural process that accompanied the violent appropriation of indigenous land through which national territory was acquired. Because of the symbolic importance of the Mississippi River, its social construction as a "natural" object played a key role in constituting national territory, an imperialist project that simultaneously depended on and helped erase indigenous conceptions of and claims on the land. The landscape at Itasca State Park sustains this process and keeps it alive today
Appropriation · Archaeology · Environmental resource management · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · National park · Sociology · State (computer science · Territoriality · American Environmental and Regional History · Archaeology and Natural History · Ecology · Geographies of human-animal interactions
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |