Professor Steven Silvern publishes chapter on the geography of Indian Country

Geography Professor Steven Silvern recently had a chapter entitled "Re-ordering the Geography of Indian Country: Historical Geographies of Removal, Reservations and Assimilation," published in North American Odyssey: Historical Geographies for the Twenty-First Century,  edited by Craig Colten and Geoffrey Buckley and published by Rowman and Littlefield. Utilizing a critical legal and political geography approach, Professor Silvern demonstrates how law reshaped the geography of Indian country through government policies of removal, reservations and assimilation. His chapter provides the reader with a geographically focused understanding of how Indian country was re-shaped and reduced by American expansionism during the nineteenth century.

Professor Silvern is a a cultural-political geographer whose primary research interests have centered on Native American geographies, geography of food systems and the geography of Israel and the Middle East. He has published numerous articles on Native American geography and is a recognized scholar in that field.