<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Please join us for our SEAH event on Friday, November 14, 2025 This event will be held in a hybrid format, allowing participants to join in person or via Zoom. </font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Prior registration is required to join via zoom.</font></div><div>
<meta charset="UTF-8"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><section class="text" data-color=""><div class="text-flex" data-alignment="left" data-hasimage="0"><div class="text-flexcell-body"><div><b><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Friday, November 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM</font></b></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Hybrid Event</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">MIT Campus, Building E51, Room 285</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"> </font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Indian Landlords and Socialist Votes: Imperial Indigestion in Oklahoma</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Sarah Phillips, Associate Professor of History at Boston University</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"> </font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Register Here : <a href="https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/3HT0zWy8R82NpfibSJqbmA">https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/3HT0zWy8R82NpfibSJqbmA</a></font></div></div></div></section></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div><div><b>Indian Landlords and Socialist Votes: Imperial Indigestion in Oklahoma</b></div><div><br></div><div>The Indian Territory, which became the state of Oklahoma in 1907, remained the last region in the continental United States where Indigenous people exercised political and territorial sovereignty. There, the entwined processes of denationalization and land privatization resulted in a unique orgy of land speculation, violence, and fraud. Oklahoma birthed the highest rates of settler farm tenancy and subsequent white out-migration in the nation.</div><div> </div><div>This talk will narrow in on the second decade of the twentieth century, when Oklahoma hosted the largest Socialist party in the United States. The poor white farmers who formed its base hoped that their representatives would release them from local landlords, banks, and creditors. But these tenants and sharecroppers also vented their grievances from inside a shattered landscape of recent and ongoing Indigenous dispossession. Oklahoma Socialists observed how politicians, lawyers, and businessmen grew fat on Indian resources and the deliberate pursuit of injury, fraud, and deception. But they evaded a direct attack on American colonial expansion and instead condemned its capitalist character. </div><div> </div><div>Standard narratives of American history break sharply between the nineteenth-century era of territorial expansion and the reform politics of the twentieth-century industrial order. I challenge this this division and analyze how left-leaning Americans digested empire with a critique of capitalism and a condemnation of the industrial class relations of modern agriculture.</div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"></div></div></div></div></body></html>