Jean M. O'Brien

Title

Jean M. O'Brien

Rights

Image used with author's permission. Photograph credit to University of Minnesota.

Birth Date

1958

Birthplace

Faribault, Minnesota (descendant of White Earth Nation)

Primary Sources

O’Brien, J. M., & Warrior, R. (2019). Editors’ Note. Native American and Indigenous Studies, 6(1), 149–149. https://doi.org/10.5749/natiindistudj.6.1.0149

O'Brien, J.M. (2017). Tracing settler colonialism's eliminatory logic in traces of history. American Quarterly 69(2), 249–255. https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2017.0018

O'Brien, J. M., & Warrior, R. (2016). Building a Professional Infrastructure for Critical Indigenous Studies: An (Intellectual) History and Prospectus for the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. In Moreton-Robinson, A. (Ed.), Critical Indigenous Studies: Engagements in First World Locations. University of Arizona Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.423485

O'Brien, J. M., & Blee, L. (2014). What Is a Monument to Massasoit Doing in Kansas City? The Memory Work of Monuments and Place in Public Displays of History. Ethnohistory, 61(4), 635-653. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2717804

O’Brien, J. M. (2010). Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England (NED-New edition). University of Minnesota Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttttjpw

O'Brien, J.M. (1997). Dispossession by degrees: Indian land and identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511600975

Secondary Sources

Justice, D. H., & O’Brien, J. M. (Eds.). (2021). Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege. University of Minnesota Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctv2j56zf0

Lomawaima, K. T., Mcdonough, K., O’Brien, J. M., & Warrior, R. (2021). Editors’ Introduction: Reflections on the Land-Grab Universities Project. Native American and Indigenous Studies, 8(1), 89–91. https://doi.org/10.5749/natiindistudj.8.1.0089
Blee, L., & O’brien, J. M. (2021). Decentering 1620. Early American Literature, 56(1), 159–172. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27081893

Blee, L. and O'Brien, J.M. (Eds.) (2019) Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit The University of North Carolina Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469648422_blee.

Andersen, C., & O'Brien, J.M. (Eds.) (2016). Sources and methods in Indigenous studies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315528854

Sleeper-Smith, S., Barr, J., O'Brien, J. M., Shoemaker, N., & Stevens, S. M. (Eds.). (2015). Why you can't teach United States history without American Indians. UNC Press Books. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469621203/why-you-cant-teach-united-states-history-without-american-indians/

Den Ouden, A.E., & O'Brien, J.M. (Eds.) (2013). Recognition, sovereignty struggles, and Indigenous rights in the United States: A sourcebook. University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469602165/recognition-sovereignty-struggles-and-indigenous-rights-in-the-united-states/

Extra Resources

Winter speaker series: Firsting and lasting: Writing Indians out of existence with Jean M. O'Brien. Vermont Historical Society, January 28, 2022, YouTube. Accessed Aug 12 2022.
https://youtu.be/QRkVjcngU50

Citation

“Jean M. O'Brien,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed April 13, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/545.

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