Les Amérindiens de l’ère progressiste à la reconquête de leur souveraineté intellectuelle

Abstract

At the beginning of the 20th century, Native Americans from various tribes and walks of life organized and expressed themselves in the context of assimilationist federal policies. They produced a rich and complex discourse about diverse problems that Native Americans were confronted to at the time. Doing so, they initiated a conquest of their intellectual sovereignty, expressing nuanced and constructive positions regarding federal policies that targeted them. Thus, in the margins of US society, these Native American intellectuals exerted a powerful creative force likely to integrate Native Americans within US culture and society.

Keywords

• United States
• Native Americans
• Indigenous studies
• Society of American Indians (SAI)
• intellectual sovereignty
• Progressive Era