Dr. Jameson R. Sweet (RU-NB, American Studies) and Dr. Maya Mikdashi (RU-NB, WGSS & CMES), BOOK TALK: Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest (UMinn Press, 2025)
Dr. Jameson Sweet & Dr. Maya Mikdashi will be in conversation about Sweet’s recently-published volume, Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest. The book writes mixed-ancestry Dakota individuals back into tribal histories, and argues that in most cases, they importantly remained Indians and full participants in Indigenous culture and society.
Dr. Jimmy Sweet (Lakota/Dakota) is Associate Professor of American Studies at RU-NB. Dr. Maya Mikdashi is Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at RU-NB.