| Summary: | The article "It's in the Blood": Settler Family Memories of Native Violence in the American South" explores how settlers in the nineteenth-century US South constructed and perpetuated family memories of white victimization at the hands of Native Americans. Through intergenerational oral histories and memoirs, white families mythologized their ancestors as innocent victims of Native aggression, justifying anti-Indian violence and dispossession. The article highlights how these family memories erased settler culpability, homogenized Indigenous identities, and perpetuated a collective memory of white innocence and victimhood, influencing the memorialization of Native aggression in the region.
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