{"id":3206,"date":"2023-02-06T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=3206"},"modified":"2023-02-16T13:42:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T20:42:51","slug":"als-assistant-professor-publishes-on-oceti-sakowin-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2023\/02\/06\/als-assistant-professor-publishes-on-oceti-sakowin-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"ALS Assistant Professor Publishes on Oceti Sakowin Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Assistant Professor of American Literary Studies ,Sarah Hernandez (Sicangu Lakota), has published her first book titled,<em>&nbsp;We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition<\/em>. Hernandez\u2019s book is published by the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/uapress.arizona.edu\/book\/we-are-the-stars\" target=\"_blank\">University of Arizona Press <\/a>in the U.S., and the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/uofrpress.ca\/Books\/W\/We-Are-the-Stars\" target=\"_blank\">University of Regina Press<\/a> in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>We Are the Stars<\/em>&nbsp;recovers the literary record of Oceti Sakowin (historically known to some as the Sioux Nation) women, who served as their tribes\u2019 traditional culture keepers and culture bearers. In so doing, the book furthers discussions about settler colonialism, literature, nationalism, and gender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Women and land form the core themes of the book, which brings tribal and settler colonial narratives into comparative analysis. Divided into two parts, the first section of the work explores how settler colonizers used the printing press and boarding schools to displace Oceti Sakowin women as traditional culture keepers and culture bearers with the goal of internally and externally colonizing the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota nations. The second section focuses on decolonization and explores how contemporary Oceti Sakowin writers and scholars have started to reclaim Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota literatures to decolonize and heal their families, communities, and nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNM\u2019s Institute for American Indian Research will host a book launch for Hernandez on <strong>Tuesday, February 28, 2023<\/strong> from <strong>4:00 to 5:30 PM<\/strong> in the Frank Water\u2019s Room, Zimmerman Library with a reception to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor of American Literary Studies ,Sarah Hernandez (Sicangu Lakota), has published her first book titled,&nbsp;We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition. Hernandez\u2019s book is published by the University of Arizona Press in the U.S., and the University of Regina Press in Canada. We Are the Stars&nbsp;recovers the literary record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3206"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3237,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions\/3237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}