Stetson Kastengren is an enrolled member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe and a PhD candidate specializing in US history since 1877, the colonial/Early Republic era, Race and Ethnicity, and American Indian Studies. His dissertation, “Imperial Fantasy: Mní Wakán Oyáte and the Dawes Act in the Late Nineteenth Century Reform Era” reinterprets the Dawes Allotment Act of 1887 by combining a community-centered analytic with a national and global lens of US empire and imperialism.