Snakes in #VastEarlyAmerica. 🐍 Timber rattlers, specifically. "A species-specific framework reveals the dynamics of the making & unmaking of scientific knowledge as an accomplice to imperial & settler domination." A rich, fascinating essay. WB Robles in 1.21 WMQ. #ReadVast2021

For 2021 I'm reading, reading... #ReadVast2021

Want more refs for #VastEarlyAmerica books, #museum exhibits, #archives collections, #digitalhumanities projects, #blogs, more? My thread of threads fr #VastEA2019 and #VastEA2020 ++ ⬇️🧵🧵🧵

"Charting the history of Detroit's French-Indigenous kinship networks requires an understanding of how community knowledge developed relative to empire." @karenlmarrero19 _Detroit's Hidden Channels_ @msupress (2020) xv. #VastEarlyAmerica #ReadVast2021