This section includes resources compiled from research about Indigenous peoples and their presence in Washington, D.C. The information below focuses on the Piscataway, and the resources listed are not exhaustive. However, we plan to compile a dedicated subject guide for Indigenous Washington, D.C. and American University.
Angela Gonzales, Judy Kertesz, and Gabrielle Tayac, “Eugenics as Indian Removal: Sociohistorical Processes and the De(con)struction of American Indians in the Southeast,” The Public Historian, vol. 29.3 (2007): 53-67.
Lina Mann, “Before the White House,” White House Historical Association, September 26, 2019, https://www.whitehousehistory.org/before-the-white-house.
James Merrell, “Cultural Continuity among the Piscataway Indians of Colonial Maryland,” William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 2 (October 1979), 528-570.
James Mooney, “Indian Tribes of the District of Columbia.” American Anthropologist,vol. 2, no. 3 (July 1889): 259-266.
James Mooney, “Piscataway Indians.” The Indian Sentinel, vol. 1, no. 13 (July 1919): 22-24.
Gabrielle Tayac, “Allies of the Land,” in The Land has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian, eds. Duane Blue Spruce and Tanya Thrasher (University of North Carolina Press, 2008), 49-60.
Gabrielle Tayac, “The Ceiba Endures: Salvadoran Indians Seek Political Space,” Native Americas, vol. 13, no.4 (1996): 44.
Gabrielle Tayac, “Claiming the Name: White Supremacy, Tribal Identity, and Racial Policy in the Early Twentieth-Century Chesapeake,” in IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas, ed. Gabrielle Tayac (Washington DC: Smithsonian, National Museum of the American Indian, 2009), 109-115.
Available through Interlibrary Loan
Gabrielle Tayac, “Eugenics and Erasure in Virginia,” National Museum of the American Indian: Celebrating Native Traditions & Communities, vol. 10, no. 3 (2009): 20-23.
Gabrielle Tayac, “IndiVisible: The Making of an Exhibition at the Museum of the American Indian,” in Trauma and Resilience in American Indian and African American Southern History, eds. Anthony S. Parent Jr. and Ulrike Wiethaus (New York: Peter Lang, 2013), 176-189
Gabrielle Tayac, “Introduction,” in IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas, ed. Gabrielle Tayac (Washington DC: Smithsonian, National Museum of the American Indian, 2009), 15-19.
Gabrielle Tayac, Meet Naiche: A Native Boy from the Chesapeake Bay Area (Hillsboro: Beyond Words Pub., 2002).
Gabrielle Tayac, “‘So Intermingled With This Earth’: A Piscataway Oral History,” Northeast Indian Quarterly (1988): 4-17.
Gabrielle Tayac, Spirits in the River: A Report on the Piscataway People (Washington DC: Smithsonian, National Museum of the American Indian, 1999).
Gabrielle Tayac, “Stolen Spirits: An Illustrative Case of Indigenous Survival Through Religious Freedom,” in American Indian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Contemporary Issues, ed. Dane Morrison (New York: Peter Lang, 1997): 217-232.
Available through the American University Library
Call Number: E76.6.A44 1997
Gabrielle Tayac and Tanya Thrasher, “Stories of Seeds and Soil,” in The Land has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian, eds. Duane Blue Spruce and Tanya Thrasher (University of North Carolina Press, 2008), 81-120.
Gabrielle Tayac, “’To Speak with One Voice’: Supra-Tribal American Indian Collective Incorporation Among the Piscataway, 1500-1998,” Dissertation (Cambridge: Harvard University, 1999).
Gabrielle Tayac, “Voices from the Land,” Human Rights Bulletin (1987).
Gabrielle Tayac, Edwin Schupman, and Genevieve Simermeyer, We Have a Story to Tell: Native Peoples of the Chesapeake Region (Washington, DC: National Museum of the American Indian, 2006).
Gabrielle Tayac, “We Right, We Fall, We Rise,” Smithsonian, vol. 35, no. 6 (2004): 63-66.
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