Building 360, CCSRE Conference Room
Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), 450 Jane Stanford Way Building 360, Stanford, CA 94305
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We have 50 States and 574 Tribal Nations and yet only the States have the power to elect representatives to Congress. Why? Professor Reese will discuss how we got here. White majorities denied Native people’s individual rights, attempts to secure delegates, and statehood to Native areas until they assimilated or were outnumbered. Federal policies made American citizenship a tool of tribal destruction. These dynamics, which Reese dubs “assimilative colonialism,” shaped our democracy, and had a lasting effect on Native people’s relationships with political power—making them see political power, not as empowering, but as dangerous.