PIPE Workshop: Emilie Connolly (Yale University)

Emilie Connolly (Yale University) will present her recent paper. Her talk title and abstract appear below: Evading Citizenship: The Shawnees' Struggle against Taxation in the Age of Emancipation This paper examines the entanglement of taxation, citizenship, and Indigenous sovereignty in the mid-nineteenth-century United States through a legal struggle Shawnees waged against the state of Kansas. As the United States’ Civil War loomed on the horizon, Kansas began asserting the authority to tax Shawnees who held personal tracts of land, or allotments. When Shawnees could not pay, the state initi…