Indigenous Brooklyn: Ironworking, Little Caughnawaga, and Kanien'kehá:ka Nationhood in the Twentieth Century

IF 0.5 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Allan Downey
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Abstract:On May 10, 2013, eighteen hundred feet above the city streets of Manhattan, workers erected the crowning spire of One World Trade Center, marking the completion of the first of six towers that would replace the buildings destroyed on September 11, 2001. Atop that tower stood one of the latest generation of Haudenosaunee ironworkers to follow in the footsteps of Indigenous families who, for the last 140 years, have helped create some of North America's most iconic landmarks. Beginning in the 1880s, ironworking quickly became a principal source of employment for Haudenosaunee men who traveled to jobs throughout Canada and the northeastern United States. By the 1920s, Haudenosaunee families from Ahkwesáhsne and Kahnawà:ke began relocating to Brooklyn, where they opened a string of boardinghouses and established a new community: "Little Caughnawaga." Together, ironworking and "Little Caughnawaga" became a nexus between Kanien'kehá:ka family life, nationhood, and self-determination. This is particularly significant when we consider that Indigenous peoples were conceptually and physically removed from urban spaces that were reframed as "modern" and juxtaposed to perceptions of "Indian authenticity." Yet Kanien'kehá:ka citizens were at the center of building these sites of "modernity," an undertaking that influenced their own rearticulations of Kanien'kehá:ka nationhood.
土著布鲁克林:铁制品、小Caughnawaga和Kanien'kehá:20世纪的原住民身份
摘要:2013年5月10日,工人们在曼哈顿城市街道1800英尺的高空竖起了世贸中心一号楼的尖顶,标志着取代2001年9月11日被毁建筑的六座塔楼中的第一座完工。在那座塔的顶端,站着豪德诺索尼最新一代的钢铁工人,他们追随着土著家庭的脚步,在过去的140年里,土著家庭帮助创造了北美一些最具标志性的地标。从19世纪80年代开始,炼铁迅速成为豪德诺索尼人的主要就业来源,他们前往加拿大和美国东北部工作。到了20世纪20年代,来自Ahkwesáhsne和kahnawaw: ke的豪德诺瓦尼家庭开始搬迁到布鲁克林,在那里他们开设了一系列寄宿公寓,并建立了一个新的社区:“小Caughnawaga”。在一起,炼铁和“小Caughnawaga”成为了Kanien' keh之间的纽带:ka家庭生活、国家和自决。当我们考虑到土著人民在概念上和身体上被从城市空间中移除时,这一点尤为重要,这些空间被重新定义为“现代”,并与“印度真实性”的观念并置。然而,Kanien' keh:ka公民是建造这些“现代性”遗址的中心,这项事业影响了他们自己对Kanien' keh:ka国家身份的重新表述。
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期刊介绍: American Quarterly represents innovative interdisciplinary scholarship that engages with key issues in American Studies. The journal publishes essays that examine American societies and cultures, past and present, in global and local contexts. This includes work that contributes to our understanding of the United States in its diversity, its relations with its hemispheric neighbors, and its impact on world politics and culture. Through the publication of reviews of books, exhibitions, and diverse media, the journal seeks to make available the broad range of emergent approaches to American Studies.
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