Night Flying Woman

The history and politics of American Indians' unique constitutional status from a renowned scholar

In his final work

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Senator Tom Daschle

Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction Chickasaw Night Flying WomanScience fiction often operates as either an extended metaphor for human relationships or as a genuine attempt to encounter the alien Other. Both types of stories tend to rehearse the processes of colonialism, in which a sympathetic protagonist encounters and tames the unknown. Despite this logic, Native American writers have claimed the genre as a productive space in which they can critique historical colonialism and reassert the value of Indigenous