Fulbright Seminar: American Indians in the American Cultural Imagination

The Australian Centre for Indigenous History and ANU School of History present a special Fulbright seminar by Professor Philip Deloria.

Americans are often willing to concede a debt to African American cultural traditions in music, dance, language, foodways.

Less visible have been the ways that the indigenous has been equally foundational to American culture.

From the Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution to nineteenth century liter-ary production; from proper childrearing to assertions of spiritual universality, Americans have observed, imagined, claimed, and performed "Indians" in order to explore a range of collective self-identities - even as they have dispossessed American Indian people of much of the North American continent.

Rather than disappearing- as was long predicted - American Indian people have engaged such ideological expectations, actively participating in the shaping of American modernity for well over a century.

Professor Deloria is a Fulbright Visitor on a joint initiative by La Trobe University, the Australian Catholic University, and Monash University