Jameson R. Sweet
Lakota and Dakota historian and professor in American Studies at Rutgers University; author of Mixed-Blood Histories, which examines mixed-ancestry Dakota people, race, and law in the nineteenth-century Midwest.
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Jameson R. Sweet, "Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Jameson R. Sweet, Lakota and Dakota historian and Rutgers professor, blends family history with legal and linguistic scholarship. He explores how mixed-ancestry Dakota people shaped tribal life, treaty politics, and 19th-century citizenship. He also examines their roles in the fur trade, the 1862 conflict, and how shifting laws and blood-quantum rules reshaped their rights.
