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Standing Up to Colonial Power: The Lives of Henry Roe and Elizabeth Bender Cloud by Renya K. Ramirez (review)
Great Plains Quarterly Pub Date : 2020-10-15 , DOI: 10.1353/gpq.2020.0036
Deondre Smiles

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  • Standing Up to Colonial Power: The Lives of Henry Roe and Elizabeth Bender Cloud by Renya K. Ramirez
  • Deondre Smiles
Standing Up to Colonial Power: The Lives of Henry Roe and Elizabeth Bender Cloud.
By Renya K. Ramirez. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press and American Philosophical Society, 2018. xiv + 288 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 cloth.

Based upon archival materials and familial accounts, Renya K. Ramirez draws together an engaging historical account of the lives of her grandparents, Henry Roe Cloud (Ho-Chunk) and Elizabeth Bender Cloud (Ojibwe), two individuals who worked tirelessly during their lives to advocate for Native Americans in a variety of spheres, including educational, political, and social spheres. This narrative stretches from Henry and Elizabeth's childhoods in Nebraska and Minnesota, respectively, and takes the reader on a geographical journey alongside their life stories and careers, ranging from Henry's time at Yale, to the Clouds' involvement with the American Indian Institute in Wichita, to Haskell, and ending with their later lives in the Pacific Northwest. Ramirez also takes care to note the Clouds' individual involvement in important events in Native history, including Henry's involvement in the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Meriam Report, and Elizabeth's deep involvement with initiatives to assist Native women.

One of the real strengths of Ramirez's work is the detailed description of the ways that the Clouds were forced to navigate often-contradictory roles as Native people and intellectuals within the settler colonial state. For example, much detail is given to the ways that Henry Roe Cloud worked to maintain his identity as Ho-Chunk even as he navigated through "white" spaces such as college preparatory school, his college education at Yale, and even in his later career in education and in the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Elizabeth Bender Cloud, Ramirez writes, had to navigate similar spaces in her life. Ramirez invokes the idea of the "trickster" in both Ho-Chunk and Ojibwe cultural contexts, and applies it to how the Clouds were able to navigate these worlds; they were able to shift their identities and shift how those identities were expressed externally in a way that allowed them to be coded as "good Indians," while they were still able to hold onto their cultural teachings in their attempts to subvert and change the settler colonial structures that surrounded them. Notably, Ramirez also doesn't shy away from areas where the Clouds may have fallen short (although they did not often do so) in their work or aims—a brave and honest engagement, to be sure.

The themes that Ramirez presents in this book are of great relevance today to the ways in which we examine Indigenous resistance in the settler colonial state, making this book extremely useful and accessible to scholars in a variety of fields, from Indigenous studies, to anthropology, geography, and history.

Deondre Smiles (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe)
Department of Geography
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中文翻译:

站在殖民统治地位:Renya K. Ramirez的亨利·罗伊(Henry Roe)和伊丽莎白·本德·克劳德(Elizabeth Bender Cloud)的生平(回顾)

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  • 站在殖民统治地位:亨利·罗伊(Renya K. Ramirez)的亨利·罗伊(Henry Roe)和伊丽莎白·本德·克劳德Elizabeth Bender Cloud)的生平
  • 登德里的微笑
捍卫殖民权力:亨利·罗伊(Henry Roe)和伊丽莎白·本德·克劳德(Elizabeth Bender Cloud)的生平
作者:Renya K. Ramirez。林肯:内布拉斯加大学出版社和美国哲学会,2018年。xiv + 288页。注释,参考书目,索引。29.95美元的布。

Renya K. Ramirez根据档案资料和家庭资料,总结了其祖父母,亨利·罗伊·克劳德(Ho-Chunk)和伊丽莎白·本德·克劳德(Ojibwe)的生活的两个历史故事,这两个人一生都在不懈地工作,在各个领域(包括教育,政治和社会领域)倡导美洲原住民。这段叙述分别来自亨利和伊丽莎白在内布拉斯加和明尼苏达州的童年时代,并带领读者走过地理历程以及他们的生活故事和职业生涯,从亨利在耶鲁的时间到云团在威奇托的美国印第安人研究所的参与,到Haskell,并以他们后来在太平洋西北地区的生活而告终。拉米雷斯(Ramirez)也注意云层的

拉米雷斯工作的真正优势之一是详细描述了云被迫在定居者殖民地国家作为土著人民和知识分子扮演的矛盾角色。例如,在亨利·罗伊·克劳德(Henry Roe Cloud)穿越“白色”空间(例如大学预科学校,在耶鲁大学学习甚至以后的职业)时,他如何维护其作为豪·克克的身份的方式得到了很多细节。在教育和印度事务局。拉米雷斯写道,伊丽莎白·本德·克劳德(Elizabeth Bender Cloud)必须在她的生活中穿越类似的空间。拉米雷斯(Ramirez)在Ho-Chunk和Ojibwe文化背景中援引“骗子”的想法,并将其应用于“云团”如何在这些世界中航行;他们能够改变自己的身份,并改变这些身份在外部的表达方式,从而使其被编码为“好印第安人”,而他们仍然能够坚持自己的文化教义,试图颠覆和改变定居者。包围他们的殖民地结构。值得注意的是,拉米雷斯(Ramirez)并没有回避那些可能在工作或目标方面失灵(尽管他们并不经常这样做)的地区-可以肯定,这是一种勇敢而诚实的参与。

拉米雷斯在这本书中提出的主题与我们今天研究定居者殖民地状态下的土著抵抗力的方式具有极大的关联性,这本书对从土著研究到人类学的各个领域的学者都非常有用和容易获得,地理和历史。

Deondre Smiles(奥奇布韦的Leech湖乐队)
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