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2018
Volume 76, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0010-096X
  • E-ISSN: 1939-9006

Abstract

Avowing settler status positions settler scholars to join in storying less harmful futures for the discipline. The author’s journey toward avowing settler status through the Northern Shoshoni word helps clear a path for this world-making.

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