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SUMMARY:Menard Family George Washington Forum: Relations in Writing and So
 vereignty with Dr. Keely Smith
LOCATION:Baker University Center Baker Center Theater\, 1 Park Place\, Ath
 ens\, Ohio 45701
DESCRIPTION:Menard Family George Washington Forum: Relations in Writing an
 d Sovereignty with Dr. Keely Smith\n\nThe Muscogee (hereafter spelled Mvs
 koke to reflect traditional spelling conventions) language is an endanger
 ed Indigenous language with fewer than 400 speakers who live primarily in
  Oklahoma and the American Southeast. Over the past thirty years\, Mvskok
 e-speaking activists and scholars have worked to revitalize the language 
 using historical Mvskoke language texts\, but scholars have yet to explor
 e the contested histories of these texts\, their Mvskoke creators and con
 tributors\, and what they can reveal about Mvskoke sovereignty. In this 2
 50th anniversary year of the American Revolution\, this talk will explore
  the implications of U.S. nationhood for Mvskoke language and sovereignty
 . It will reveal the story of the Mvskoke communities who were responsibl
 e for the transcription and adoption of the written Mvskoke language from
  early partnerships between Mvskoke interpreters and Euro-American settle
 rs in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to the Mvskoke people
  who wrote in their own language to warn their communities about U.S. pla
 ns for allotment and statehood at the turn of the twentieth century. This
  project combs Mvskoke and English language archives to argue that contes
 ts over the written language sculpted diverse Mvskoke communities that su
 stained Mvskoke sovereignty despite threatening U.S. efforts to “civilize
 \,” dispossess\, and assimilate Native peoples.\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/e
 vents/eb3659b6-068b-44d0-8b09-6d79478dd527
URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/eb3659b6-068b-44d0-8b09-6d79478dd527
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