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Violence and indigenous communities : confronting the past and engaging the present /

This interdisciplinary collection of essays recognizes a long history of genocidal violence against Indigenous peoples while emphasizing the agency of Native individuals and communities in genocide's aftermath. Contributors provide historical and contemporary examples of activism, resistance, i...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sleeper-Smith, Susan (Editor), Ostler, Jeffrey (Editor), Reid, Joshua L. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2021]
Series:Critical insurgencies.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples > Violence against > America > Congresses.
Indigenous peoples > America > Social conditions > Congresses.
Indigenous women > Violence against > America > Congresses.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Susan Sleeper-Smith, Jeffrey Ostler, and Joshua L. Reid
  • Narrating Stories of Domestic Violence in Indian Country / Brenda J. Child
  • Genealogies of Violence and Animations of Indigenous Law in Louise Erdrich's LaRose / Beth H. Piatote
  • Holding Ourselves Responsible: Dismantling the Binary between Violence against Women and Self-Determination in Indigenous Communities / Rauna Kuokkanen
  • Burl Bowls and Grinding Stones: Indigenous Materialities and Memorialization after King Philip's War / Christine M. DeLucia
  • Burning the Gods: Mana, Iconoclasm, and Christianity in Oceania / Kealani Cook
  • Unsifted: Hawaiian Indian Coalescence in Central California, 1864-1970 /
  • Ashley Riley Sousa
  • From "Iroquois Cruelty" to the Mohawk Warrior Society: Stereotyping and the Strategic Uses of a Reputation for Violence / Scott Manning Stevens
  • Situating the Accountability for Canada's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls with "White Boys" in Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers's A Red Girl's Reasoning / Lucinda Rasmussen
  • Pathways toward Justice: Walking as Decolonial Resistance / Amber Hickey
  • Singing Resilience: Tanya Tagaq and Indigenous Women's Leadership Counteracting Gender-Based Violence / Liz Przybylski
  • Mni Sose and the Oceti Sakowin: Refusing Death on the Missouri River / Nick Estes
  • Indigenous Child Removal: Narratives of Violence, Trauma, and Survivance /
  • Amy Lonetree
  • "A World Where Many Worlds Fit": Zapatismo and the Reconstruction of a Maya World in Chiapas / Silvia Soto
  • "They Alone Should Rule": Violence, Revolution, and the Politics of Community and State Formation in Bolivia / Forrest Hylton
  • Weaving Strategies of Survival: Maya Women's Activism in the Diaspora / Alicia Ivonne Estrada.