Maurice Crandall and ICW Social Media Director Jessica Kim discuss Crandall’s book These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598-1912 that explores how Indigenous communities implemented, overturned, rejected, and indigenized colonial ideologies of democracy.
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These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S. – Mexico Borderlands, 1598-1912
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