Re-Post: Reflection on Sequoyah Rising by Steve Russell
NOTE: A few academics have argued that professors are "accountable to the truth not the public." Good! I think both. Below is an argument from a couple of years ago. A Reflection on Sequoyah Rising by Steve Russell Jennifer Lee Lawson As a graduate student, I was interested in many things. I had become somewhat of an expert on Native Studies, but my interests were extremely broad and I was moving away from that. I knew Steve Russell from my undergraduate years. I corresponded with him about U.S./Native American issues. He gave me reading recommendations for my undergraduate thesis. I heard from Steve Russell as a graduate student when he emailed me saying he was working on a book and wanted me to look it over. That’s what we do. We do that kind of thing. It seemed normal, so I did. There wasn’t much to what he wrote, but I did recommend that he read Jeremy Waldron’s “Superseding Historic Injustice.” That’s basically all I did. I forgot about it and did my other work. Later, R...
