TY - BOOK ID - 80840633 TI - Monumental mobility AU - Blee, Lisa AU - O'Brien, Jean M PY - 2019 SN - 9781469648415 1469648415 9781469648422 1469648423 9781469648392 1469648393 9781469648408 1469648407 9798890855534 PB - Chapel Hill DB - UniCat KW - Collective memory KW - Monuments KW - Wampanoag Indians KW - Massasoit Indians KW - Pokanoket Indians KW - Algonquian Indians KW - Indians of North America KW - Historical monuments KW - Architecture KW - Sculpture KW - Historic sites KW - Memorials KW - Public sculpture KW - Statues KW - Collective remembrance KW - Common memory KW - Cultural memory KW - Emblematic memory KW - Historical memory KW - National memory KW - Public memory KW - Social memory KW - Memory KW - Social psychology KW - Group identity KW - National characteristics KW - Political aspects KW - Social aspects KW - History. KW - Massasoit, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80840633 AB - "This book is situated within the terrain of intense debate over the placement and displacement of monuments to difficult histories. Installed in Plymouth in 1921 to commemorate the Tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Cyrus Dallin's statue Massasoit was intended to memorialize the Pokanoket Massasoit (leader) Ousamequin as a welcoming diplomat and participant in the mythical first Thanksgiving. But Massasoit did not remain only in Plymouth. Lisa Blee and Jean O'Brien track the physical and narrative mobility of Massasoit through its inception and its movement to numerous locations in the US to illuminate how Massasoit's attachment to national origins did and did not move with the installations. The historical memory surrounding Massasoit suggests both the rich potential of Indigenous public historians to intervene in sanitized national narratives of origins, and the ways in which this history is commodified. Can Massasoit prompt viewers to reckon with ... the structural violence of settler colonialism in commemorative landscapes, or does it further entrench celebratory narratives of national origins?"-- ER -