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Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ history professor wins two prizes for her first book.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Brianna Theobald<\/a>, an assistant professor of history at the\u00a0Ä¢¹½´«Ã½<\/a> has won two awards for her first book, Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(University of North Carolina Press, 2019). She is the recipient of the John C. Ewers Award<\/a> from the Western History Association and the Armitage-Jameson Prize<\/a> from the Coalition for Western Women\u2019s History.<\/p>\n

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Brianna Theobald, assistant professor of history. (Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ photo \/ Rio Hartwell)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Named after the late American ethnologist\u00a0and museum curator who was instrumental in establishing the National Museum of American History, the John C. Ewers award is given annually for the best published book on the North American Indian ethnohistory, including Mexico.<\/p>\n

The Coalition for Western Women\u2019s History awards the\u00a0Armitage-Jameson Prize\u00a0annually for an outstanding monograph or edited volume, published in the history of western women, gender, and sexuality. The prize is named in honor of Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Jameson for their pioneering work in the field of western women\u2019s history, which includes the geographic regions of Canada and Mexico, as well as U.S. territories, past and present.<\/p>\n

Reproduction on the Reservation<\/em> traces the history of reproductive health care and reproductive politics on reservations during the last century, including the notorious sterilizations that occurred in the 1970s when US doctors sterilized an estimated 25 to 42 percent of Native American women of childbearing age, some as young as 15.<\/p>\n

Even the lower estimate\u2014one quarter of Native women\u2014is a mind-boggling statistic. The sterilizations, subsidized by the federal government and often performed without consent or under great duress, marked the culmination of a long history of efforts by federal and local authorities to manage the reproductive lives of Native families, explains\u00a0Theobald:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe federal government and local authorities have long tried to control indigenous families and women\u2019s reproduction, using tactics such as coercive sterilization and the removal of indigenous children into the white foster care system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Theobald\u2019s book traces those efforts, but also the response from Native Americans themselves\u2014\u201cwidespread activism across Indian country\u201d that arose as a direct consequence of federal reproductive policies.<\/p>\n

\"bookShe finds that, while essentially colonial in their approach, federal policies regarding Native women\u2019s reproductive decisions were carried out unevenly in the early 20th century, hinging largely on local conditions and actual enforcement on the ground.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe implementation, or lack thereof, of reproduction-related policies was shaped by local conditions, the availability of resources, the whims of individual employees\u2014and perhaps most significantly, Native response and engagement,\u201d says Theobald.<\/p>\n

Elaine Nelson<\/a>, an assistant professor of history at the University of Kansas<\/a> and the executive director of the Western History Association<\/a>, says the award committee members were \u00a0\u201cextremely impressed with the originality\u201d of the book, \u201cits scope, and its significant contribution to the field of North American Indian ethnohistory.\u201d<\/p>\n

The monograph \u201cstood out for its analysis of wide-ranging archives and testimonies, and for its critical insights about Native women\u2019s reproductive histories and ongoing activism,\u201d writes Katrina Jagodinsky,<\/a> an associate professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln<\/a>, who chaired this year\u2019s prize committee for the Coalition for Western Women\u2019s History<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As a long-time member of the Western History Association and the Coalition for Western Women\u2019s History, Theobald says \u201cit\u2019s an honor to have my work recognized by them in this way.<\/p>\n

Laura Smoller<\/a>, professor and chair of the Rochester Department of History<\/a>, calls the monograph \u201chistorical research and writing at its finest.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHer path-breaking work on reproduction and childbearing by Native American women challenges existing categories and eschews reductionist interpretations, all in accessible, beautifully crafted prose,\u201d says Smoller.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile\u00a0Theobald\u00a0does not shy away from the larger social and political implications of her research, what she presents above all are the deeply human stories of women, like Susie Yellowtail, who exerted their own agency in the face of what she\u2014like the Native activists with whom she begins her book\u2014readily labels \u2018settler colonialism.\u2019\u00a0Theobald\u2019s keen sense of the way in which writing history and telling people\u2019s stories can itself also be empowering shines throughout the book, from the cover illustration by a Crow artist, to the fact that she literally gives the last word to a Crow woman, a descendant of Susie Yellowtail,\u201d Smoller adds.<\/p>\n

Because of Covid-19 both prizes are awarded virtually. Writing the book, Theobald received grant funding from Smith College, the Western Association of Women’s Historians, the Western History Association, the Coalition for Western Women’s History, the American Historical Association, and the Charles Redd Center.<\/p>\n

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