Peter Leman – Mangas Coloradas

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Peter Leman is an Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University, where he has taught since 2011. Most of his scholarly work to date has examined the relationship between law and literature in the postcolonial contexts of the former British Empire. His book, Singing the Law: Oral Jurisprudence and the Crisis of Colonial Modernity in East Africa, will be published by Liverpool University Press in 2020.

His new project, which brings a postcolonial perspective to US/indigenous contexts, is motivated in part by his ancestral connection to the Apache: His grandmother, the late Ruby Amos Leman, belonged to the White Mountain Apache tribe, and he grew up hearing stories about great Apache heroes like Mangas Coloradas. He is interested in intersections of race, phrenology, and material culture during and after the Apache wars.

Mangas Coloradas was an Apache tribal chief and father-in-law of the Chiricahua Chief Cochise and the Mimbreño Chief Victorio. He regarded by many historians to be one of the most important Native American leaders of the 19th century due to his fighting achievements against the Mexicans and Americans. His eventual murder while in custody in 1863 increased hostility between Apaches and the United States.

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Peter Leman is an Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University, where he has taught since 2011. Most of his scholarly work to date has examined the relationship between law and literature in the postcolonial contexts of the former British Empire. His book, Singing the Law: Oral Jurisprudence and the Crisis of Colonial Modernity in East Africa, will be published by Liverpool University Press in 2020.

His new project, which brings a postcolonial perspective to US/indigenous contexts, is motivated in part by his ancestral connection to the Apache: His grandmother, the late Ruby Amos Leman, belonged to the White Mountain Apache tribe, and he grew up hearing stories about great Apache heroes like Mangas Coloradas. He is interested in intersections of race, phrenology, and material culture during and after the Apache wars.

Mangas Coloradas was an Apache tribal chief and father-in-law of the Chiricahua Chief Cochise and the Mimbreño Chief Victorio. He regarded by many historians to be one of the most important Native American leaders of the 19th century due to his fighting achievements against the Mexicans and Americans. His eventual murder while in custody in 1863 increased hostility between Apaches and the United States.

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