Indian Collectibles: Appropriations and Resistance in the Haudenosaunee Homelands

A presentation from 2021–2022 Radcliffe fellow Scott Manning Stevens

Scott Manning Stevens is a citizen of the Akwesasne Mohawk nation and an associate professor and the director of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Program at Syracuse University. His primary research lies in the critical analysis of ethnographic collecting and the significance of material culture collections within a US settler context.

While at Radcliffe, Stevens intends to complete a monograph on ethnographic collecting focused on the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (aka the Iroquois). He will analyze not only the collections of material culture that exist in museums but also collections of cartographic, linguistic, and missionary records held in various archives, as well as visual depictions of Haudenosaunee leaders and communities. Find out more at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/scott-manning-stevens.

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0:00 Introduction
4:08 Scott Manning Stevens
35:50 Audience Q&A