Making A White Man’s West

Abstract

government throughout the period she scrutinizes. With a concise narrative interwoven with Roberts’s family stories, I’ve Been Here All theWhile is accessible to academics as well as those engaging in genealogy, public history, and community-based knowledge-making. It provokes members of invested communities—descendants, historians, Indigenous activists—to ponder how and whether selfadvocacy and rhetorical strategies contribute to settler colonialism amid larger contexts of coercion, enslavement, and violence.