Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity Books

Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews with 26 Monacans, one Episcopal minister appointed to serve them, one former clerk of the court for Amherst County, and her own story, the author offers accounts of what happened to the Monacan families and how their very existence as Indians was threatened under the Virginia's Racial Integrity Law.Trade ReviewRosemary Whitlock's book will help to tell the history of the Monacan people. The stories told to her will live on and will keep the history alive for generations to come. Thank you for recording our lives as Monacan people. - Chief Kenneth W. Branham, Monacan Indian Nation

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Book SynopsisFor the Cherokee, health is more than the absence of disease; it includes a fully confident sense of a smooth life, peaceful existence, unhurried pace, and easy flow of time. All aspects - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual - figure into the Cherokee concept of good health. This title provides a portrait of Cherokee health issues.

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Book SynopsisThe late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries were an extremely turbulent time for southeastern American Indian groups. This volume examines issues of culture contact and social identity by exploring how this chaotic period played out in the daily lives of Cherokee households, especially those excavated at the Townsend site in eastern Tennessee.

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Book SynopsisProvides the first ethnographic narrative of a Garifuna family. The Garifuna are descendants of the ‘Black Carib’, whom the British deposited on Roatan Island in 1797 and who settled along the Caribbean coast from Belize City to Nicaragua.

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Book SynopsisReassesses the ancient Indigenous McKeithen site in northern Florida in light of new data, analyses, and theories.Trade Review“The author details how violent encounters with Indians—and consistently one-sided white interpretations of these events—helped fuel Southern white identity and facilitate Indian Removal. Further, Nooe ‘connects the dots’ of white Southern attitudes about race, citizenship, and land rights. Why are some Americans so attached to Confederate iconography? Nooe demonstrates that the emotional/psychological connection began long before 1865. Aggression and Sufferings skillfully weaves all of these themes together."—Robert M. Owens, author of “Indian Wars” and the Struggle for Eastern North America, 1763–1842

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Book SynopsisNative American societies, often viewed as unchanging, in fact experienced a rich process of cultural innovation in the millennia prior to recorded history. Societies of the Hocking River Valley in southeastern Ohio, part of the Ohio River Valley, created a tribal organization beginning about 2000 bc.EditedTrade Review“This work’s anthropological perspective goes beyond more traditional treatments of prehistory. The focus on the tribal level of socio-political organization is particularly noteworthy. The result is an updated and very useful treatment of Hocking Valley prehistory.”

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Book SynopsisOffers information about the myths, ceremonies, and lives of the New World inhabitants whom Columbus first encountered. This title contains many linguistic and cultural observations: descriptions of the Indians' healing rituals and their beliefs about their souls after death.Trade Review“[This book] is important for the way in which it anticipates some of the main issues concerning the production of Latin American literature.”—Roberto González Echevarría, author of Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative“[This is a] highly accessible English translation. . . [of] the earliest work dealing exclusively with the indigenous inhabitants of the New World.”—Patricia Seed, Rice UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction to the English Edition xi Introductory Study xvii An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians I Appendix A. Christopher Columbus 41 Appendix B. Pietro Martire d'Anghiera 46 Appendix C. Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas 54 Bibliographic Note 68 Index of Taino Words and Names 71

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes cultural adaptation among aboriginal people in the Pacific Northwest, tracing the colonial origins and political implications of ideas about native "authenticity."Trade Review“There are not enough superlatives in a thesaurus to convey my enthusiasm for this book. It is insightful, original, intelligent, thoroughly researched, beautifully written, and more. Paige Raibmon is the first scholar working in Native history to dissect and articulate the connections between assimilationist government policies, the rise of North American anthropology, and tourism, all of which—Raibmon argues with great success—served as agents of colonialism.”—Nancy Shoemaker, author of A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America“There is nothing in the existing historical literature that accomplishes what this book does. It vividly depicts the interplay of ideas, strategies, and practical considerations during a period that has had significant and long-lasting impacts on everyone’s ideas about ‘Indianness.’ Admirably, Paige Raibmon insists that we consider non-Indians’ ideas in relationship to Indians’ ideas and strategies, something few existing works do.”—Alexandra Harmon, author of Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound“Authentic Indians is a masterful work that carefully weaves together a complicated theoretical argument with a lively historical narrative. Raibmon paints a clear picture of cultural and economic power structures that ruled the indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast. And, through an innovative reading of a diverse array of primary sources, she finds native voices and tells a story that features indigenous peoples as meaningful historical actors.” -- Colleen O’Neill * Labor *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Authenticity and Colonial Cosmology 1 1. Local Politics and Colonial Relations: The Kwakwaka'wakw at Home on the Northwest Coast 15 2. "The March of the Aborigine to Civilization": Live Exhibits and the World's Columbian Exhibition, 1893 34 3. Theaters of Contact: The Kwakwaka'wakh at the Fair 50 4. Picking, Posing, and Performing: Puget Sound Hop Fields and Income for Aboriginal Workers 74 5. Harvest Gatherings: Aboriginal Agendas, Economy, and Culture 98 6. Indian Watchers: Colonial Imagination and Colonial Reality 116 7. The Inside Passage to Authenticity: Sitka Tourism and the Tlingit 135 8. "The Trend is Upward": Mission and Cottage Life 157 9. Civilization on Trial: The Davis Case 175 Conclusion: Authenticity's Call 198 List of Abbreviations 209 Notes 211 Bibliography 261 Index 295

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Book SynopsisThis lavishly illustrated art history situates the work of pioneering mid-twentieth-century Native American artists within the broader canon of American modernism.Trade Review“Native Moderns is an outstanding intervention into our understanding of both Native art in the twentieth century and the received history of modernism.”—W. Jackson Rushing, author of Native American Art and the New York Avant-Garde“Fluid, clear, and engaging, Native Moderns is a superb and innovative contribution to Native American art history and modern art’s varied histories.”—Janet Berlo, coauthor of Native North American Art“Native Moderns addresses an area of Native American art that deserves more attention than it has received. . . . [A] worthwhile addition to art history. . . .” -- Edward J. Rielly * Journal of American Culture *“Native Moderns is a fascinating study of the changing nature and reception of modern American Indian art in relation to the history of modern art, American society and government policy. Herein Bill Anthes significantly expands the canon of modern art history while exploring the all important notion of identity and authenticity in terms of how particular artists, from both within the Indian community and without, have been inspired by native American heritages. This always lucid book will be of tremendous value to art historians and anthropologists. . . .” -- Jonathan Zilberg * Leonardo Reviews *“Anthes offers a conceptual discourse rather than an encyclopedic history of American Indian painting. He presents an overview of the era, including the range of changes experienced by native painters within the context of political, economic, and social history. He examines thought-provoking issues that are significant to understanding native modernist painting: the importance of place, cultural appropriation, reconstruction, and individual innovation.” -- Patricia Coronel * Journal of American Ethnic History *“In focussing on just twenty years of American Indian painting Bill Anthes has chosen what seems at first to be quite a restricted field, but his nuanced and careful account succeeds in opening up almost all of the key issues which still dominate Native American art and its reception today. In its balanced account of a range of several lesser-known painters it adds real depth and texture to the standard narratives, and the well-documented account is supported by excellent colour reproductions of thirty-four relevant paintings. . . . A rich and rewarding study.” -- David Murray * Journal of American Studies *Table of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xxix 1. Art and Modern Indian Policy 1 2. The Culture Brokers: The Pueblo Paintings of José Lente and Jimmy Brynes 30 3. "Our Inter-American Consciousness": Barnett Newman and the Primitive Universal 59 4. The Importance of Place: The Ojibwe Modernism of Patrick DesJarlait and George Morrison 89 5. Becoming Indian: The Self-Invention of Yeffe Kimball 117 6. "A fine painting . . . but not Indian": Oscar Howe, Dick West, and Native American Modernism 142 Postscript: Making Modern Native American Artists 171 Notes 183 Bibliography 217 Index 227

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“The Life and Traditions of the Red Man is an extraordinary rendering of Eastern Algonquian history, story, and prophecy, self-published in the nineteenth century by a native writer from the northeast coast of the United States. As remarkable as the text was Joseph Nicolar himself, a brilliant and largely self-educated member of the Penobscot tribe who fervently wished to pass on what he could to the younger generations.”—Patricia Clark Smith, coauthor of On the Trail of Elder Brother: Glous’gap Stories of the Micmac Indians“Joseph Nicolar’s The Life and Traditions of the Red Man is surely a landmark text, and Annette Kolodny’s framing helps make the narrative come alive.”—Philip Deloria, author of Indians in Unexpected Places“Joseph Nicolar’s The Life and Traditions of the Red Man, reissued with Annette Kolodny’s excellent prefatory material, provides students and scholars of American Indian literatures with a valuable text in a reader-friendly edition, which is, crucially, endorsed by the Penobscot Nation.”— Eric Cheyfitz, editor of The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States since 1945Table of ContentsIllustrations vii Preface / Charles Norman Shay ix Acknowledgments xiii A Summary History of the Penobscot Nation / Annette Kolodny 1 Introduction to Joseph Nicolar's 1893 The Life and Traditions of the Red Man / Annette Kolodny 35 A Note on Nicolar's Text 89 Joseph Nicolar's The Life and Traditions of the Red Man Preface 95 1. The Creation.—Klose-kur-beh's Journey.—Meeting his Companions.—The Marriage 97 2. With the aid of May May, Klose-kur-beh destroyed the Serpent.—The Sea Voyage. 114 3. Klose-kur-beh's hunting.—The first mother changed into corn and tobacco. 130 4. The winter and the seven years famine.—The discovery of the frist white man's track. 142 5. The fish famine.—The capture of the white swan and the white spiritual men driven away. 161 6. The winding up the war with the May-Quays.—The grand council established—The arrival and settlement of the white man. 184 Conclusion 195 Notes to the Nicolar Text 201 Afterword / Bonnie D. Newsom 213 Works Consulted and Recommendations for Further Reading 215 Illustration Credits 221

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Book SynopsisAn assessment of the legal and cultural effects of the arbitrary correlation of blood and race imposed by the US government on the indigenous peoples of Hawai'i. It demonstrates how blood quantum, a system originally intended to restore land to Native Hawaiians, has in fact become an extension of US imperial power in Hawai'i.Trade Review“Hawaiian Blood is an important work that addresses the racialization of Hawaiians in a way that no other work has done. J. Kēhaulani Kauanui reveals how the fifty-percent blood quantum continues to divide the Native Hawaiian community and how it is affecting current court decisions and legislation. These analyses are crucial for the Hawaiian community as it continues to move to define itself and to exercise self-determination and sovereignty.”—Noenoe K. Silva, author of Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism“Hawaiian Blood tells a fascinating and important story that has not received sufficient attention in the historical research on Hawai‘i nor in the work on indigenous peoples more generally. Well written, accessible to students and sophisticated in its analysis, this book offers provocative new insights and theoretical perspectives on how we think about and use notions of race, blood, and belonging.”—Sally Engle Merry, author of Colonizing Hawai‘i: The Cultural Power of Law“Hawaiian Blood is an important study that brings a complex issue to light and fills a gap in the literature on both indigenous and American studies.” -- Eileen H. Tamura * Journal of American History *“Hawaiian Blood obviously is required reading for anyone interested in Hawaiian history, but it can be profitably read by others concerned with ethnicity, land rights, definitions of welfare and more issues than a brief review can encompass. Though I have lived in the islands intermittently for almost 60 years, I found I could still learn from Kauanui’s book and am therefore profoundly grateful to her.” -- Eugene Ogan * Pacific Affairs *“Kauanui is a passionate critic of the concept of blood quantum, and her engagement with the issue of Hawaiian identity yields insights throughout the book, especially concerning the ways in which the law can work as a subtle agent of colonization.” -- Stuart Banner * Pacific Historical Review *“The broader historical and anthropological questions raised by this study are thoroughly engaging, beginning with the metrics through which ‘Hawaiian’ identity and community membership should be measured. . . . Kauanui’s informed voice, as a scholar and Hawaiian, deserves a large and attentive audience in the coming debates over sovereignty and indigeneity.” -- David Igler * American Historical Review *“This book is incredibly important in building a new understanding of colonization and racialization in Hawai’i, and is a must read for anyone interested in American Studies, Indigenous Studies, and/or Critical Race Studies.” -- Judy Rohrer * American Studies *“This work is an ambitious and carefully argued account of how the peoples of Hawaii moved across multiple modes of being: from a self-ruled polyglot community to becoming conquered United States colonial subjects and, eventually, transformed into culturally and legally segmented ‘American’ citizens made to submit to ‘blood quantum’ rules. . . . [A]n exceedingly well written and well argued work on a complex case.” -- Cherubim Quizon * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsA Note to Readers xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Got Blood? 1 1. Racialized Beneficiaries and Genealogical Descendants 37 2. "Can you wonder that the Hawaiians did not get more?" Historical Context for the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act 67 3. Under the Guise of Hawaiian Rehabilitation 99 4. The Virile, Prolific, and Enterprising: Part-Hawaiians and the Problem with Rehabilitation 121 5. Limiting Hawaiians, Limiting the Bill: Rehabilitation Recoded 145 6. Sovereignty Struggles and the Legacy of the 50-Percent Rule 171 Notes 197 Bibliography 211 Index 229

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Book SynopsisIn 1979, Florida Seminoles opened the first tribally operated high-stakes bingo hall in Native North America. This book presents an ethnographic account of the history and consequences of Seminole gaming. It describes casino operations, chronicles the everyday life and history of the Seminole Tribe, and shares the insights of individual Seminoles.Trade Review“High Stakes is a work of great ethnographic and theoretical power, written in prose of great clarity. It is also a model of sensitive and thoughtful writing with respect to American Indians, who have long been rightly suspicious of the ethnographic gaze and ethnographic representation. High Stakes shows what ethnography can, indeed must, be and do in the twenty-first century.”—Sherry B. Ortner, author of Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject“High Stakes tracks to the core of contemporary North American settler society today—the economy of value that structures expectation and possibility for indigenous peoples and the state. Here Jessica R. Cattelino examines with great ethnographic care and rigor the expectation that Indians be poor even where they have wealth, that wealth portends a diminishment of culture, and that indigeneity then stand before this process in an unrelenting and unchanging way. With a nuanced, careful, and precise ethnographic eye to and with the Seminole Tribe of Florida, this very important book proves so much otherwise.”—Audra Simpson, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Seminole Gaming in the Sunshine State 1 1. Casino Roots 29 2. Cultural Currencies 59 3. Fungibility: The Politics of Casino Money 95 Interlude: Mateo Romero's Indian Gaming 125 4. Rebuilding Sovereignty 127 5. Sovereign Interdependencies 161 Conclusion: Betting on the House 193 Notes 207 References 253 Index 279

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Book SynopsisFor Native peoples of California, the abalone found along the state's coast has remarkably complex significance as food, spirit, narrative symbol, tradable commodity, and material with which to make adornment and sacred regalia. This book examines the cultural, social, and economic importance of abalone among the California Indian tribes.Trade Review“Abalone Tales shimmers like the mother of pearl in a California Indian necklace. Out from the shadows of the old colonial tradition, the book fulfills the overdue promise of a new collaborative anthropology. It accomplishes this with remarkable intimacy and intelligence, and in so doing gives us new ways of thinking about ethnography, Native America, and the global politics of indigeneity today.”—Orin Starn, author of Ishi’s Brain: In Search of America’s Last “Wild” Indian“Abalone Tales is a fine example of collaborative ethnography. It adds immeasurably to ongoing conversations among anthropologists and other social scientists about the still-emergent possibilities for producing dialogic, collaborative, and ethically responsible ethnographies.”—Luke Eric Lassiter, Marshall University Graduate CollegeTable of ContentsAbout the Series vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Why Abalone? The Making of a Collaborative Research Project 1 I. Artifact, Narrative, Genocide 1. The Old Abalone Necklaces and the Possibility of a Muwekma Ohlone Cultural Patrimony 9 2. Abalone Woman Attends the Wiyot Reawakening 50 II. The "Meaning" of Abalone: Two Different Abalone Projects 3. Florence Silvia and the Legacy of John Boston: Responsibility at the Intersection of Friendship and Ethnography 62 4. Reflections on the Iridescent One 84 III. Cultural Revivification and the Species Extinction 5. Cultural Revivification in the Hoopa Valley 109 6. Extinction Narratives and Pristine Moments: Evaluating the Decline of Abalone 137 Conclusion: Horizons of Collaborative Research 161 Notes 173 Bibliography 179 Index 193

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Book SynopsisStudies the stirring literature of "Red Power," an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969 and expanded into the 1970s. This title shows instead that the movement engaged historical memory and oral tradition to produce more enabling knowledge of American Indian lives and possibilities.Trade Review“Red Land, Red Power is an exciting and important book. . . . It is an important book for students invested in how the written word and real-world politics connect, including those in Native studies, (anti-)colonial studies, postcolonial studies, third-world studies, and ecocriticism. Red Land, Red Power also celebrates just how much literature and literary studies can do in understanding and resisting colonization—in the book, in the classroom, and in material places where marginalized voices are still trying to be heard.” - Melinda DiStefano, Contemporary Literature“Teuton has a keen ability to convey how tribal relationships that are based in kinship and that have endured long histories of colonial confrontations with the United States are essential to understanding these novels’ characters and dramatic tensions.” - Kendall Johnson, American Literature“[Teuton’s] work is a powerful text that debunks old myths and creates a framework for seeing the world for what it is. Red Land, Red Power is a must-read.” - Lee Maracle, Times Higher Education Supplement“Informative from the start, [Teuton] interrogates essentialist critiques of Native literary culture by Native intellectuals, problematizes trickster critical discourse, and parries the vocabulary of Native studies while acknowledging how Indians have transformed English, achieving pantribal meanings manifest in prose. . . . Philosophically challenging yet reader friendly, this book is a must read. Essential.” - R. Welburn, Choice“His interpretive work will be particularly valuable to historians considering the use of these red power novels, because his approach is carefully grounded in historical context and deeply informed by prior criticism. . . . Teuton offers tangible evidence of not only red power, but also the power of literary language in the indigenous struggle with a legacy of colonialism that remains visible throughout Indian country.” - Michael A. Elliot, The Journal of American History“Red Land, Red Power is a terrific book. Sean Kicummah Teuton offers a critique and reconstruction of current theoretical discussions in literary studies about identity and experience as they affect the reception and production of Native literature. He argues for a ‘tribal realist’ approach as the critical framework that allows for a sophisticated, nuanced, and empowering analysis of American Indian literature.”—Paula Moya, author of Learning from Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles“Sean Kicummah Teuton offers a powerful vision of American Indian literary studies and its dialogue with contemporary literary criticism. He understands how to connect theoretical discussion to the practical politics of Indian culture and literature. Every scholar in the field will want to read this book.”—Robert Dale Parker, author of The Invention of Native American Literature“Red Land, Red Power is an exciting and important book. . . . It is an important book for students invested in how the written word and real-world politics connect, including those in Native studies, (anti-)colonial studies, postcolonial studies, third-world studies, and ecocriticism. Red Land, Red Power also celebrates just how much literature and literary studies can do in understanding and resisting colonization—in the book, in the classroom, and in material places where marginalized voices are still trying to be heard.” -- Melinda DiStefano * Contemporary Literature *“[Teuton’s] work is a powerful text that debunks old myths and creates a framework for seeing the world for what it is. Red Land, Red Power is a must-read.” -- Lee Maracle * Times Higher Education *“His interpretive work will be particularly valuable to historians considering the use of these red power novels, because his approach is carefully grounded in historical context and deeply informed by prior criticism. . . . Teuton offers tangible evidence of not only red power, but also the power of literary language in the indigenous struggle with a legacy of colonialism that remains visible throughout Indian country.” -- Michael A. Elliot * Journal of American History *“Informative from the start, [Teuton] interrogates essentialist critiques of Native literary culture by Native intellectuals, problematizes trickster critical discourse, and parries the vocabulary of Native studies while acknowledging how Indians have transformed English, achieving pantribal meanings manifest in prose. . . . Philosophically challenging yet reader friendly, this book is a must read. Essential.” -- R. Welburn * Choice *“Teuton has a keen ability to convey how tribal relationships that are based in kinship and that have endured long histories of colonial confrontations with the United States are essential to understanding these novels’ characters and dramatic tensions.” -- Kendall Johnson * American Literature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Preface xiii Introduction: Imagining an American Indian Center 1 Part I. Red Land 1. Embodying Lands: Somatic Place in N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn 43 2. Placing the Ancestors: Historical Identity in James Welch's Winter in the Blood 79 Part II. Red Power 3. Learning to Feel: Tribal Experience in Leslie Marmon Silko's ` 119 4. Hearing the Callout: American Indian Political Criticism 157 Conclusion: Building Cultural Knowledge in the Contemporary Native Novel 197 Notes 235 Bibliography 257 Index 281

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Book SynopsisChronicles the history of Indigenous political activism in Ecuador, from the creation of the local agricultural syndicates in the 1920s through the protests of 1990. This work reveals the central role of women in Indigenous movements and the history of productive collaborations between rural Indigenous activists and urban leftist intellectuals.Trade Review“In this timely contribution to Latin American history and the study of Indigenous South Americans, Marc Becker documents the long history of Indigenous political activism in Ecuador, reminding us that current events never spring into existence without historical precedent. The impressive amount of new documentary evidence he provides makes this a book that will be immediately read and discussed, and then debated for years to come.”—Mary Weismantel, author of Cholas and Pishtacos: Stories of Race and Sex in the Andes“Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements corrects numerous misconceptions about indigenous movements in Ecuador that are likely to be relevant to understanding experiences in neighboring countries. It is the most comprehensive and insightful narrative available of the development of relations between an important indigenous movement and the political left. The book also fills a gap in our understanding of the historic role of indigenous women in the success of indigenous mobilisations in Ecuador.” -- Donna Lee Van Cott * Journal of Latin American Studies *“Becker provides a detailed history of indigenous political organization back to the early twentieth century and documents the complex, two-way relationship between indigenous leaders and the national left.” -- John A. Peeler * Latin American Research Review *“Scholars from diverse disciplines will appreciate the book’s vivid attention to individual activists as well as its broad scope. . . . Indians and Leftists provides an important new perspective on this history by revealing crucial connections between rural indigenous movements and the urban left.” -- Laura Gotkowitz * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Chronology xiii Acronyms xxiii 1. What Is an Indian? 1 2. Socialism 17 3. Strike! 50 4. Federacion Ecuatoriana de Indios 77 5. Guachala 105 6. Agrarian ReforM? 123 7. Return of the Indian 144 8. Pachakutik 166 Notes 195 Glossary 251 Biographies 255 Bibliography 261 Index 293

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Book SynopsisA story of how gender, culture, class, and personality intersect as a group of indigenous Hawaiian men work to overcome the dislocations of colonial history. It analyzes how middle-aged, middle-class, and mixed-race members assert a warrior masculinity through practices including martial arts, wood-carving, and cultural ceremonies.Trade Review“Native Men Remade is a tour de force. Ty P. Kāwika Tengan combines participant observation and archival and oral history in a study of the Hale Mua, a group of Hawaiian men who have revived ancient martial arts, carving skills, and rituals. As both member and ethnographer, Tengan engages passionate debates about the ‘emasculation’ of Hawaiian men by colonialism and tourism, the contested place of men and women in nationalism, and feminist critiques of Hawaiian patriarchy and gender violence. For Hawaiian peoples navigating their future, he suggests there are ‘more islands of hope than of despair.’”—Margaret Jolly, Head of the Gender Relations Centre, The Australian National University“This book concerns a distinctive Hawaiian men’s movement dedicated to decolonizing male consciousness by means of ritualized physical disciplines modeled after historically resonant warrior images. The writing is powerful, and the point of view is a compelling blend of interpretive humility and analytical forthrightness. Offering a wealth of insider testimony drawn from detailed interviews and from his own engaged experience in the Hale Mua, Ty P. Kāwika Tengan makes contemporary Hawaiian struggles and sensibilities accessible to non-Hawaiians by contextualizing them historically, culturally, and comparatively. This work will interest scholars of gender, race, and postcolonial cultures, as well as both academic and non-specialist readers interested in the contemporary Pacific.”—Rena Lederman, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Lele i Ka Pō 1 1. Engagements with Modernity 33 2. Re-membering Nationhood and Koa at the Temple of State 65 3. Pu'ukoholā: At the Mound of the Whale 93 4. Kā i Mua—Cast into the Men's House 125 5. Narrating Kānanka: Talk Story, Place, and Identity 163 Conclusion: The Journeys of Hawaiian Men 199 Appendix: 'Awa Talk Story at Pani, 2005 219 Notes 229 Glossary of Hawaiian Words 239 References 247 Index 267

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Book SynopsisA biography of Henry Roe Cloud (c. 1884–1950), a Winnebago educator, scholar, and minister who was one of the most renowned Native Americans of his time.Trade Review“[A] strong work of psychobiography—well researched, written, and illustrated. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” - D. Steeples, Choice“Joel Pfister’s study of the career of Henry Roe Cloud makes a useful and insightful contribution to the growing body of knowledge about the group of American Indian intellectuals and activists whose careers flourished in the early part of the twentieth century. . . . Roe Cloud’s career offers a study not of adaptation but of a specifically American kind of self-determination, in this case through a canny awareness of the crucial significance of class.” - Lucy Maddox, American Historical Review“[A] commendable study. . . . Pfister has drawn heavily on the extensive Roe Cloud correspondence in Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library to construct a convincing analysis of Roe Cloud's education, which he aptly deems ‘a cross-cultural encounter’ (p. 99).” - Margaret Connell Szasz, Journal of American History“The real value of this book, it seems, is that Pfister is a talented cultural studies scholar who offers a new framework for understanding Henry Roe Cloud. Further work on Roe Cloud will benefit immensely from the The Yale Indian’s conceptual framework.” - Francis Flavin, Ethnohistory“The Yale Indian advances a project begun in Joel Pfister’s Individuality Incorporated and also breaks new ground. This book, based on archival research, is about the Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Henry Roe Cloud (1884–1950), the first full-blood Indian to graduate from Yale (BA 1910, MA 1914). Mostly overlooked by historians, in his era he was recognized as one of the greatest Native leaders. Roe Cloud expanded the meaning of ‘Indian,’ in part by striving to develop a university-trained professional and managerial class of Native people at a time when the Carlisle Institute was educating Indians to work on Ford’s assembly lines. This is a rich and important book.”—Arnold Krupat, author of Red Matters: Native American Studies“A provocative anatomy of the privileges and penalties of an elite early-twentieth-century liberal education for one accomplished Native American, Henry Roe Cloud, the “Yale Indian” of the title. Drawing upon a rich array of Roe Cloud’s personal and professional correspondence as well as published papers, Joel Pfister lays bare the effects of powerful and mutually sustaining operations of Indianization, individuation, sentimentalization, spiritualization, professionalization, and bureaucratization on Roe Cloud’s life course and chances. In the process, he brilliantly illuminates Roe Cloud’s strategic and successful self-fashioning as a classed, raced, sexed, and gendered modern subject at a particular place and time. As Indian-White history, The Yale Indian also extends and deepens our sense of the productivity of private life in forging and maintaining what Ann Stoler has termed the ‘tense and tender ties’ of U. S. Empire.”—Laura Wexler, author of Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U. S. Imperialism“[A] commendable study. . . . Pfister has drawn heavily on the extensive Roe Cloud correspondence in Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library to construct a convincing analysis of Roe Cloud's education, which he aptly deems ‘a cross-cultural encounter’ (p. 99).” -- Margaret Connell Szasz * Journal of American History *“[A] strong work of psychobiography—well researched, written, and illustrated. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” -- D. Steeples * Choice *“Joel Pfister’s study of the career of Henry Roe Cloud makes a useful and insightful contribution to the growing body of knowledge about the group of American Indian intellectuals and activists whose careers flourished in the early part of the twentieth century. . . . Roe Cloud’s career offers a study not of adaptation but of a specifically American kind of self-determination, in this case through a canny awareness of the crucial significance of class.” -- Lucy Maddox * American Historical Review *“The real value of this book, it seems, is that Pfister is a talented cultural studies scholar who offers a new framework for understanding Henry Roe Cloud. Further work on Roe Cloud will benefit immensely from the The Yale Indian’s conceptual framework.” -- Francis Flavin * Ethnohistory *Table of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xvii Introduction. Chapters in the Education of Henry Roe Cloud 1 1. Yale Education 23 2. Sentimentalized Education 83 3. Cultural Incentive-and-Activism Education 127 Coda. The Indian Ethos of Service 161 Appendix. Sometimes History Needs Reminding 175 Notes 177 Index 243

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes bilingual intercultural education in Bolivia.Trade Review“In New Languages of the State, Gustafson provides the vivid narrative of EIB from the colonizers’ destruction and violence, which is justified and legitimated by the colonizers, through the Guaraní challenge and resistance to the official lies. Students of bilingual education everywhere will benefit from reading this account because everywhere, bilingual education is about challenging and resisting the hegemony of colonizers and their languages.” - Sheila M. Shannon, Latin American Politics and Society“Bret Gustafson has written a subtle and illuminating ethnography of the interactions and intersections of grassroots and official projects of interculturalism in Bolivia. . . . A core success of the book stems from Gustafson’s ability to push against unidirectional analytic or critical positions without leaving readers stranded on islands of particularism or mired in irreducible complexity.” - Andrew Orta, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology“New Languages of the State is an excellent and engaging piece of scholarly work, based on long-term ethnographic and historical research in three diverse areas of enquiry, which the author articulates into a complex study of the state, education reform, and indigenous movements. It should appeal to scholars interested in these themes in Latin America and in other regions of the world.” - Maria L. Lagos, American Ethnologist“Gustafson’s nuanced and dynamic portrait of reform provides a wealth of information and insight for followers of indigenous education and politics. Hopefully, his narrative about this oft-neglected corner of the globe will find an audience not only among fellow anthropologists but among educational activists and policy-makers as well.” - Aurolyn Luykx, Anthropos“Gustafson has written a magisterial book on Indigenous politics in Bolivia that should be required reading for all graduate students interested in Indigenous politics, decolonization, and political ethnography.” - José Antonio Lucero, A Contracorriente“While arguably the best ethnography of Guarani country produced in recent years, Gustafson’s book is also situated at the intersections of state-building and social movements; it will therefore be of broad interest to scholars in anthropology, political science, sociology, and beyond. . . . This book is clearly a major contribution to our understanding of contemporary Bolivia, indigenous movements, and the politics of indigenous education. . . . With a keen understanding of the contentious nature of Bolivian society, Gustafson has provided a complex and compelling portrait of new forms of struggle, belonging, and hope. As news of violent conflicts in Bolivia continues to surface, the need for such a message could scarcely be more urgent.” - María Elena Garcí, Current Anthropology“A beautifully crafted, magnificently expansive, and inspiring work of engaged historical ethnography! Bret Gustafson traces Bolivia’s heralded experiment in bilingual education by planting it deep in the subsoil of Guaraní culture and politics and by projecting it against the larger canvass of neoliberal reformism in the 1990s. In plotting the choreography of state, NGO, and grassroots struggles over indigenous knowledge and schooling, Gustafson opens up new horizons on Bolivia’s vibrant Guaraní movement and its radicalizing agendas in the early 2000s. This is, quite simply, the work of a seasoned anthropologist and gifted writer.”—Brooke Larson, author of Trials of Nation Making. Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810-1910“Much anticipated by anthropologists of Latin America, New Languages of the State is an entirely new contribution to the ethnography of the Andes, and it speaks to much broader issues about development banks, globalization, indigenous movements, and more. Bret Gustafson makes sense of transnational processes, bureaucratic logics, and ideological formations by moving between diverse locales in Bolivia, from the most remote locations in Chaco, to the upscale professional offices of La Paz, and then on to international meetings in Thailand and the United States.”—Julia Paley, author of Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile“[New Languages of the State] is a spectacularly successful example of how to write multi-sited and multi-scalar ethnography. Divided into three sections with interludes that turn vivid narratives of personal experience into key analytical questions, beautifully crafted writing fuses thick description of people and places with consistently perceptive analysis. The book’s discussion of the problems of challenging the coloniality of power through education has significance beyond Latin America, without sacrifice of careful contextualization.” -- John Gledhill * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“Although the ethnographic lens in New Languages focuses less on classrooms and schools than on government ministries, development agencies, teachers’ union and Guarani movement spaces, Gustafson skillfully shifts and refocuses his work’s temporal and spatial scope across many sites, capturing these diverse actors’ interventions in education reform. The effect is a rich composite picture of the processes unfolding around education policy in Bolivia. . . . With increasing discussion in Bolivia and beyond about what the ‘decolonization’ of education could look like, New Languages provides a welcome contribution.” -- Karl F. Swinehart * Anthropology & Education Quarterly *“New Languages of the State is an excellent and engaging piece of scholarly work, based on long-term ethnographic and historical research in three diverse areas of enquiry, which the author articulates into a complex study of the state, education reform, and indigenous movements. It should appeal to scholars interested in these themes in Latin America and in other regions of the world.” -- Maria L. Lagos * American Ethnologist *“Bret Gustafson has written a subtle and illuminating ethnography of the interactions and intersections of grassroots and official projects of interculturalism in Bolivia. . . . A core success of the book stems from Gustafson’s ability to push against unidirectional analytic or critical positions without leaving readers stranded on islands of particularism or mired in irreducible complexity.” -- Andrew Orta * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“Gustafson has written a magisterial book on Indigenous politics in Bolivia that should be required reading for all graduate students interested in Indigenous politics, decolonization, and political ethnography.” -- José Antonio Lucero * A Contracorriente *“Gustafson’s nuanced and dynamic portrait of reform provides a wealth of information and insight for followers of indigenous education and politics. Hopefully, his narrative about this oft-neglected corner of the globe will find an audience not only among fellow anthropologists but among educational activists and policy-makers as well.” -- Aurolyn Luykx * Anthropos *“In New Languages of the State, Gustafson provides the vivid narrative of EIB from the colonizers’ destruction and violence, which is justified and legitimated by the colonizers, through the Guaraní challenge and resistance to the official lies. Students of bilingual education everywhere will benefit from reading this account because everywhere, bilingual education is about challenging and resisting the hegemony of colonizers and their languages.” -- Sheila M. Shannon * Latin American Politics and Society *“While arguably the best ethnography of Guarani country produced in recent years, Gustafson’s book is also situated at the intersections of state-building and social movements; it will therefore be of broad interest to scholars in anthropology, political science, sociology, and beyond. . . . This book is clearly a major contribution to our understanding of contemporary Bolivia, indigenous movements, and the politics of indigenous education. . . . With a keen understanding of the contentious nature of Bolivian society, Gustafson has provided a complex and compelling portrait of new forms of struggle, belonging, and hope. As news of violent conflicts in Bolivia continues to surface, the need for such a message could scarcely be more urgent.” -- María Elena Garcí * Current Anthropology *Table of ContentsAbout the Series ix Acknowledgments xi Acronyms xv On Languages and Labels xix Introduction. Ethnographic Articulations in the Age of Pachakuti 1 Part 1. Resurgent Knowledge 1. Soldiers, Priests, and Schools: State Building in the Andes and the Guarani Frontier 33 Interlude. To Camiri 61 2. Guarani Scribes: Bilingual Education as Indigenous Resurgence 65 Interlude. To Itavera 95 3. Guarani Katui: Schooling, Knowledge, and Movement in Itavera 101 Part 2. Transnational Articulations Interlude. To La Paz, via Thailand 135 4. Networking Articulations: EIB from Project to Policy 143 Interlude. Bolivia or Yugoslavia 171 5. Prodding Nerves: Intercultural Disruption and Managerial Control 175 Part 3. Return to Struggle Interlude. La Indiada, como para Dar Miedo 209 6. Insurgent Citizenship: Interculturalism beyond the School 215 Interlude. Interculturalism to Decolonization 247 7. Shifting States 253 Notes 285 Glossary 301 References 303 Index 319

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Book SynopsisThis vivid ethnographic account of the first peaceful encounters between the Wari Indians of western Brazil and missionaries and government workers emphasizes how the Wari perceived the interactions.Trade Review“Thanks to the excellent anthropological work of Aparecida Vilaça and colleagues studying Amazonia and Melanesia, it becomes increasingly apparent that the incorporation of otherness—in practices ranging from marriage and shamanism to warfare and cannibalism—is an essential condition of human being. It follows that the relationship between societies is an essential condition of their respective cultural orders as well as their historical development. Now Vilaça has produced a landmark ethnography of these processes, with an unparalleled documentation from the inside of the assimilation of the outside, highlighted by a stunning analysis of the cultural reciprocities of the colonial encounter.”—Marshall Sahlins, author of The Western Illusion of Human Nature“[B]road scope makes Strange Enemies a book that should be read even by anthropologists who have little familiarity with Amazonia. It is a compelling example of the vital work that has been emerging from Amazonian anthropologists for the past decade. Like the best of that work, it offers us glimpses into worldviews and practices that are nothing if not mesmerizingly ‘far out.’ And it uses those worldviews and practices to develop insights and conclusions that are unexpected and exhilarating.” -- Don Kulick * American Ethnologist *“This intimate portrait of a remarkable people who insist on encountering modernity on their own terms challenges us to think beyond outmoded notions about acculturation and loss of tradition. Deftly weaving the insights of Amazonian perspectivism with history, myth, and personal experience, Aparecida Vilaça shows how Wari’ choices to live with whites and adopt many of their ways are part of the logic of being indigenous. Empowerment derives from seeing the world through the eyes of others. Strange Enemies invites us to see the world through Wari’ eyes. The view is fascinating.”—Beth A. Conklin, author of Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society“Aparecida Vilaça’s book, first published in Portuguese in 2006, is an excellent contribution to the anthropology of Amazonia and Melanesia. . . . Vilaça’s book is recommended as important reading to anthropologists, students, and the general reader interested in understanding’ the Other’ in our modern world.” * Colonial Latin American Historical Review *“Strange Enemies is the best ethnography ever written about a first contact history and thus probably the single most anthropologically satisfying publication of any kind for thinking about this subject.” -- Rupert Stasch * American Anthropologist *“The book is a well-written, highly readable, profound and original ethnographic and analytic contribution to Amazonian ethnology and ‘first encounter’ literature, such that any divergence in interpretation will also need an extended argument: it should be read by everyone interested in the subject.” -- Edwin Reesink * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *“Among the many works on first contact between Indians and non-Indians, Strange Enemies stands out for its illuminating focus on indigenous perspectives and its sophisticated analysis of how the Wari’ conceived of historical change.” -- Christine Mathias * Ethnohistory *This work has profound and far-reaching implications for anthropologists and historians who examine the frontiers of colonialism and globalization. . . . This is contemporary ethnography at its best, skillfully weaving together nuanced theoretical arguments, rich prose and storytelling, and insights that can only be gained by immersion in local settings. . . . Vilaça’s remarkable depiction of the coherence and resilience of native Amazonian peoples even in the face of catastrophic change is a must read for anyone interested in colonialism, globalization, and the place of indigenous peoples in the modern world.” -- Michael Heckenberger * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Orthography xvii Introduction 1 Part I. Other Becoming 1. The Foreigner 25 2. The Enemy 70 3. The White Enemy 110 Part II. In Myth 4. The White Enemy 135 5. The Foreigner, the Dead 146 6. The Enemy 164 7. The Brother-in-Law 175 Part III. We Want People for Ourselves: Pácification 8. The Motives of the Whites 197 9. The Widening River: Contact with the OroNao of the Whites 210 10. "The Enemy Says He's OroNao": Contact with the OroWaram, OroWaramXijien, and OroMon 229 11. The Great Expedition: Contact with the OroNao', OroEo, and OroAt on the Negro and Ocaia Rivers 255 Conclusion 301 Notes 321 Bibliography 341 Index 357

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Book SynopsisAn account of how anthropology has responded to and helped shape ideas about race and culture in the United States, and how its ideas have been appropriated to different ends.Trade Review“Baker convincingly shows anthropology's role in a struggle to move the nation from a biological understanding of race. . . [A]n entirely brilliant book.” - Anthony J. Lemelle Jr., Journal of African American Studies“[A] many-layered analysis. . . . As Baker documents, since the 1950s white-supremacist and anti-Semitic organizations have argued for the existence of a Boas conspiracy that promotes racial amalgamation, degeneration, and equality. The tangled roots of race and culture, Baker argues, continue to trip us up.” - Julia E. Liss, Journal of American History“Written with an ironic sense of humor, Baker succeeds in ferreting out littleknown material and enhances and broadens our understanding of the history of anthropology as well as the discipline’s relationship to past and present political currents.” - Vernon J. Williams Jr., American Studies“Lee Baker is almost peerless as a social, political, and intellectual historian of anthropology, its entanglements with emerging ideas like race and culture, and its collisions with public policy and the law. . . . The book is a great read, filled with engaging untold stories gleaned from archives and primary documents.” - Brett Williams, American Anthropologist“In these fascinating essays, Lee D. Baker interrogates several key dichotomies (culture/race, Native Americans/African Americans, anthropology/sociology) to cast new light on the history of American anthropology. He asks anthropologists to think again about the peculiar combination of progressive and conservative arguments that anthropological theories of culture and race seem always to reproduce.”—Richard Handler, University of Virginia“In this smart and provocative book, Lee D. Baker takes on a terribly important topic: the transformations in the discipline of anthropology as it relates to race and culture. Among other things, Baker raises very good questions about how anthropology ‘treats’ Native Americans versus African Americans. The answers aren’t going to make anyone feel good, but they are going to make people think. I learned a lot from this thoughtful work.”—Jonathan Holloway, co-editor of Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century“Lee D. Baker’s new book astutely and convincingly argues for new ways of reading the ways anthropology has treated the racial politics of culture and the cultural politics of race. These precise, masterfully researched and elegantly written vignettes map new vistas for understanding the critical crucible in which Native American and African American experiences illuminate each other through academic research and institutions. Baker’s insights are fresh, basic, and important.”—Robert Warrior, President, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association“[A] many-layered analysis. . . . As Baker documents, since the 1950s white-supremacist and anti-Semitic organizations have argued for the existence of a Boas conspiracy that promotes racial amalgamation, degeneration, and equality. The tangled roots of race and culture, Baker argues, continue to trip us up.” -- Julia E. Liss * Journal of American History *“Baker convincingly shows anthropology's role in a struggle to move the nation from a biological understanding of race. . . [A]n entirely brilliant book.” -- Anthony J. Lemelle Jr. * Journal of African American Studies *“Lee Baker is almost peerless as a social, political, and intellectual historian of anthropology, its entanglements with emerging ideas like race and culture, and its collisions with public policy and the law. . . . The book is a great read, filled with engaging untold stories gleaned from archives and primary documents.” -- Brett Williams * American Anthropologist *“Written with an ironic sense of humor, Baker succeeds in ferreting out little known material and enhances and broadens our understanding of the history of anthropology as well as the discipline’s relationship to past and present political currents.” -- Vernon J. Williams Jr. * American Studies *Table of ContentsPreface: Questions ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Research, Reform, and Racial Uplift 33 2. Fabricating the Authentic and the Politics of the Real 66 3. Race, Relevance, and Daniel G. Brinton's Ill-fated Bid for Prominence 117 4. The Cult of Franz Boas and His "Conspiracy" to Destroy the White Race 156 Notes 221 Works Cited 235 Index 265

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Book SynopsisAn analysis of how cultural rights emerged over self-determination as the dominant legal framework for indigenous advocacy in the late twentieth century, bringing unfortunate, if unintended, consequences.Trade Review“Engle argues that indigenous rights advocates should abandon essentialized cultural conceptions and move toward ‘a more nuanced (and more ‘real’) understanding of culture’. That attenuated understanding, combined with a measure of strategic creativity, may yield more productive results for indigenous self-determination. With this impressive and truly interdisciplinary approach to international law, historians, anthropologists, and lawyers alike can appreciate Engle’s account of indigenous rights advocacy and move toward a more complex strategy that successfully integrates culture.” - Giselle Barcia, The Yale Journal of International Law“[A] deeply insightful and beautifully crafted volume. Engel shows that several polarities are oddly linked, as in a Mobius strip. Highly localized indigenous groups appeal for assistance and support from international actors and despite their low technology level deploy the Internet. Diversity and uniqueness are pursued in the languages and styles of the West. Emphases on culture and the economic intertwine. Global and local fascinatingly blend. These complexly linked polarities give her narrative a haunting grandeur.” - Charles Crothers, Ethnic and Racial Studies“Engle’s work helps to illuminate the complexity of indigenous politics and inter-institutional dynamics. Her book contributes to discussions of indigenous rights an enlightening dynamism that I hope will inspire further work on the politics of indigeneity.” - Kirsty Gover, Melbourne Journal of International Law“The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development takes the analysis of indigenous rights advocacy and the politics of self-determination to a new level, and it brings legal and cultural struggles together in a breathtaking big picture. It is up to the moment in terms of its political scope, richly historicized, and filled with comparative and critical analysis for rethinking indigenous political movements and their enduring (and sometimes problematic) implications.”—J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, author of Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity“Could culture be, in part, the culprit? This question will not be well received by those interlocutors—activists, scholars and activist intellectuals alike—who are unwilling to subject the premises of their work to sustained critical scrutiny. For the others, Karen Engle’s text will be immensely rewarding: an invitation to take stock of how far indigenous struggles have advanced over the past four decades, with ‘right to culture’ at front and center, and a call to reflect on the limitations of this political-legal approach. She argues that the ‘right to culture’ has indeed become part of the problem, and that an alternative ‘anti-essentialist’ notion of culture could deliver more favorable political results. These are crucial assertions to engage and assess, for those on the front lines of indigenous struggles and, by extension, for scholars as well. We are indebted to Engle for putting them on our agenda with such lucidity.”—Charles R. Hale, Director, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin“If you are interested in indigenous rights, social lawyering, and the strange alchemy by which identity is transformed into right, you will want to read this book. Karen Engle has written a powerful history of the indigenous rights movement, which is simultaneously a meditation on the nature of identity and a primer on international legal strategy.”—David Kennedy, author of The Dark Sides of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism“[A] deeply insightful and beautifully crafted volume. Engel shows that several polarities are oddly linked, as in a Mobius strip. Highly localized indigenous groups appeal for assistance and support from international actors and despite their low technology level deploy the Internet. Diversity and uniqueness are pursued in the languages and styles of the West. Emphases on culture and the economic intertwine. Global and local fascinatingly blend. These complexly linked polarities give her narrative a haunting grandeur.” -- Charles Crothers * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“Engle argues that indigenous rights advocates should abandon essentialized cultural conceptions and move toward ‘a more nuanced (and more ‘real’) understanding of culture’. That attenuated understanding, combined with a measure of strategic creativity, may yield more productive results for indigenous self-determination. With this impressive and truly interdisciplinary approach to international law, historians, anthropologists, and lawyers alike can appreciate Engle’s account of indigenous rights advocacy and move toward a more complex strategy that successfully integrates culture.” -- Giselle Barcia * Yale Journal of International Law *“Engle’s work helps to illuminate the complexity of indigenous politics and inter-institutional dynamics. Her book contributes to discussions of indigenous rights an enlightening dynamism that I hope will inspire further work on the politics of indigeneity.” -- Kirsty Gover * Melbourne Journal of International Law *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. International and Transnational Indigenous Movements 1. Setting the Stage for the Transnational Indigenous Rights Movement: Domestic and International Law and Politics 17 2. Indigenous Movements in the Americas in the 1970s: The Fourth World Movement and Pan-indigenism 46 3. International Institutions and Indigenous Advocacy in the 1980s and 1990s: Self-Determination Claims 67 4. International Indigenous Advocacy in the 1980s: Following the Model of a Human Right to Culture 100 Part II. Human Rights and the Uses of Culture in Indigenous Rights Advocacy 5. Culture as Heritage 141 6. Culture as Grounded in Land 162 7. Culture as Development 183 Part III. Indigenous Models in Other Contexts: The Case of Afro-Colombians 8. The History of Law 70: Culture as Heritage, Land, and Development 223 9. The Periphery of Law 70: Afro-Colombians in the Caribbean 254 Conclusion 274 Notes 279 Bibliography 349 Index 383

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Book SynopsisRather than seeing American literature as beginning with the writings of English or Spanish colonists, Brander Rasmussen points to the wide variety of indigenous writing in the Americas prior to colonization. The study looks at writing between 1524 and the mid-19th century work of Herman Melville.Trade Review"Quequeeg's Coffin sweeps away the origin stories of American literature by beginning with the encounter between European colonialism and indigenous cultures; it revises prevailing notions of 'literacy' and 'writing' by placing indigenous literary traditions alongside, and in dynamic relation to, the alphabetic systems of the colonizers; and it emphasizes the often volatile interactions between, and continuing syncretism among, vastly different notions of literacy. It is the realization of an exciting, ambitious undertaking."—David Kazanjian, author of The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America"In Queequeg's Coffin, Birgit Brander Rasmussen looks into the formation of the Americas beyond and below imperial and national boundaries. She invites us to rethink what 'American literature' is, to expand its purview to include not only alphabetic languages, but also non-alphabetic writings throughout the Americas. Queequeg's Coffin announces the end of an era in the national literary imagination. It opens up 'America' beyond the United States."—Walter D. Mignolo, author of The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options“In asking literary scholars to rethink the basis of what constitutes a text, this fascinating monograph cracks open the field of inter-American literary studies. . . . In the first two chapters, she provides insightful readings of pictography and wampum as textual artifacts that were either misunderstood or denigrated by colonial explorers. The reading of Mary Rowlandson is particularly astute. . . . She goes on to provide an invigorating reading of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” -- D. J. Rosenthal * Choice *“What is new, and revelatory, in Rasmussen’s study is an illumination of the intertwined archives of American literature, and a firm grasp on what it means aesthetically and politically to recognize the commensurability of indigenous and European colonial forms of literacy. The stakes for the aesthetics run throughout; the rich textures brought forth through her readings demonstrate how much literary scholarship could gain through her dialogic approach.” -- Beth H. Piatote * English *“In Queequeg’s Coffin, Birgit Brander Rasmussen offers a marvelously detailed and inventive critique of the presumption that Indigenous peoples lacked ‘writing’ and ‘literacy’ prior to Euro-contact/conquest.” -- Mark Rifkin * American Literature *“Birgit Brander Rasmussen’s Queequeg’s Coffin is an eye-opening deconstruction of the way we consider writing in early American literature. With thorough research, an extensive notes section, and concrete examples, Queequeg’s Coffin is a welcome addition to the realm of early American scholarship.” -- Teresa Coronado * Rocky Mountain Review *“This books stands as a significant (and, hopefully, not solitary) foray into what could and should be a growing corpus of scholarship on indigenous and alternative literacies in the Americas.” -- Aaron P. Althouse * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction. " A New World Still in the Making: 1 1. Writing and Colonial Conflict 17 2. Negotiating Peace, Negotiating Literacies: The Undetermined Encounter with Early American Literature 49 3. Writing in the Conflict Zone: Don Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno 79 4. Indigenous Literacies, Moby-Dick, and the Promise of Queequeg's Coffin 111 Afterword 139 Notes 145 Works Cited 185 Index 201

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Book SynopsisHistorians, anthropologists, and sociologists examine how race and racism have mattered in Andean and Mesoamerican societies from the early colonial era to the present day.Trade Review“This timely and important collection should appeal not just to historians of Latin America but also to scholars interested in colonialism, subaltern studies, social policy, modernization, and nation building. Focusing on race and racism in five countries over several centuries, the contributors address themes such as education, cultural nationalism, and definitions of mestizaje and hybridity, enabling readers to see how similar concerns played out in different places and times.”—Mary Roldán, author of Blood and Fire: La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946–1953“This valuable collection delves into issues of racism and indigenous identity at a regional level, in a way that no other book does. Focusing on Mesoamerica and the Andes, where most indigenous Latin Americans live, well-known specialists in their fields offer interesting, up-to-date scholarship on the discrimination that indigenous peoples have suffered from the colonial period to the present.”—Erick D. Langer, editor of Contemporary Indigenous Movements in Latin America“While the temporal distribution of the collection favors the twentieth century, scholars of all time periods will benefit from the varied methodologies and perspectives presented by the contributors. Ultimately, this volume represents a very valuable collection of cutting-edge research into the permutations of race and racism throughout the history of Latin America.” -- Robert C. Schwaller * Ethnohistories *“This volume’s strength lies in its detailed and, in many cases, very local analysis of specific historical moments. This is less a history of race than a collection of essays about the persistence of racism, and no one reading this volume will be in any doubt about its centrality to understanding the continent’s history.” -- Rebecca Earl * Hispanic American Historical Review *“This is a superior and important book, which will be widely used and cited.” -- Peter Wade * Journal of Latin American Studies *“A major contribution of this volume is the way in which it puts into dialogue histories of race from colonial times to the present, including current indigenous mobilizations. For this reason, it will be an excellent addition to undergraduate surveys and courses on race in Latin American history.” -- Waskar T. Ari-Chachaki * Social History *“The importance of this volume is multiple. It is timely, answering a need for deeper understanding of race/racism in the region given the growing number of violent racist incidents…Moreover, the volume brings together debates relevant to history as well as colonialism, subaltern studies, development studies, sociology, social policy and international relations.” -- Karem Roitman * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“This book performs the useful service of introducing the work of many of these scholars—especially the Latin American scholars—to an English-speaking audience. It does this while also crafting a whole that is more unified, with its various parts in dialogue with one another, than is usual in an edited collection. Laura Gotkowitz should be complimented on the accomplishment.” -- Robert L. Smale * A Contracorriente *“Histories of Race and Racism offers significant, accessible and clearly written contributions from the fields of history and cultural anthropology to the study of Indigenous identities and politics that will be useful for those teaching or writing about race and the colonial legacies of Latin America.” -- Elizabeth Shesko * Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Racisms of the Present and the Past in Latin America / Laura Gotkowitz 1 Part I. The Uses of "Race" in Colonial Latin America Unfixing Race / Kathryn Burns 57 Was There Race in Colonial Latin America?: Identifying Selves and Others in the Insurgent Andes / Sinclair Thomson 72 Part II. Racialization and the State in the Long Nineteenth Century From Assimilation to Segregation: Guatemala, 1800–1944 / Arturo Taracena 95 The Census and the Making of a Social "Order" in Nineteenth-Century Boliva / Rossana Barragán 113 Forging the Unlettered Indian: The Pedagogy of Race in the Bolivian Andes / Brooke Larson 134 Part III. Racialization and Nationalist Mythologies in the Twentieth Century Indian Ruins, National Origins: Tiwanaku and Indigenismo in La Paz, 1897–1933 / Seemin Qayum 159 Mestazaje, Distinction, and Cultural Presence: The View from Oaxaca / Deborah Poole 179 On the Origin of the "Mexican Race" / Claudio Lomnitz 204 Part IV. Antiracist Movements and Racism Today Politics of Place and Urban Indigenas in Ecuador's Indigenous Movement / Rudi Colloredo-Mansfield 221 Education and Decolonization in the Work of the Aymara Activist Eduardo Leandro Nina Quispe / Esteban Ticona Alejo 240 Mistados, Cholos, and the Negation of Identity in the Guatemalan Highlands / Charles R. Hale 254 Authenticating Indians and Movements: Interrogating Indigenous Authenticity, Social Movements, and Fieldwork in Contemporary Peru / Maríia Elena García and José Antonio Lucero 278 Transgressions and Racism: The Struggle over a New Constitution in Bolivia / Andrés Calla and Khantuta Muruchi 299 Epilogue to "Transgressions and Racism": Making Sense of May 24th in Sucre: Toward an Antiracist Legislative Agenda / Pamela Calla and the Observatorio del Racismo 311 Part V. Concluding Comments A Postcolonial Palimpsest: The Work Race Does in Latin America/ Florencia Mallon 321 Bibliography 337 Contributors 377 Index 381

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Book SynopsisThis book extends the conception of literacy beyond the written word to incorporate the visual. Focusing on the period of colonization in the Andean region the authors argue that the European cultural literacy that they imposed on the indigenous population was not just a tool for oppression and control but was used by the local people as a means to assert their own cultural identity.Trade Review“Beyond the Lettered City is a landmark study. It expands our understanding of colonial Andean culture by focusing on areas at the margins of pre-Hispanic Inka control (present-day Colombia and Ecuador). Even more important is the authors’ approach to cultural analysis. Examining the intersections of genres of cultural expression, including writing, painting, architecture, and performance, Joanne Rappaport and Thomas Cummins suggest that participation in literacy involved a great deal more than learning to read alphabetically inscribed texts and produce images according to European regimes of pictorial representation. Rappaport and Cummins show that native literacies were crucial arenas in which colonial culture was created, negotiated, and contested.”—Carolyn Dean, author of A Culture of Stone: Inka Perspectives on Rock“Beyond the Lettered City is a major contribution not only to South American colonial studies but also to broader debates about literacy and visual culture. It reveals the complex and varied interactions among European alphabetic writing, indigenous literacy systems, and the spoken languages of both the colonizers and the colonized. It also shows how indigenous actors engaged Castilian knowledge and literacy and turned them into their own decolonial advocacy.”—Walter D. Mignolo, author of The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options“Beyond the Lettered City reveals the complexity of Andean society, the challenges of new administrative procedures, and the interaction between Spaniards and the indigenous peoples who were able to become their own advocates.” -- Carlos Damian * Hispanic American Historical Review *“In this interesting contribution to the study of colonial expression, the authors take a novel approach to analysing culture by combining anthropology with art history. The result is an original perspective on how colonial domination at the level of meaning took place….The authors provide striking and dramatic examples of how the natives engaged with and internalised this new visual culture.” -- EC * Latin American Review of Books *“The collection of such a vast set of visual images is alone a momentous task. The breadth of scholarship is impressive. Text and image blend effortlessly in the fine narrative. Many forms of literacies are explored. I am certain that others, as they read and reread sections, will be stimulated as I am to explore further.” -- Noble David Cook * Ethnohistory *“Beyond the Lettered City is an exceptionally important, path-breaking contribution to the study of the transformations of society and culture in the northern and central Andes from the time of the Iberian invasion until the early 18th century.” -- Gary Urton * ReVista *“A richly researched work of mature, broad-reaching scholarship, Beyond the Lettered City is at the same time an experiment in innovative historiography. It is likely to intrigue art-oriented and letter-oriented readers for a long time to come.” -- Frank Salomon * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“Beyond the Lettered City represents an important, innovative, and interdisciplinary study that should be mandatory reading for anyone seriously interested in the art, history, and culture of colonial Spanish America. More broadly, it deserves an audience among scholars of other colonial and postcolonial societies where the issues of artistic cultural adaptation and transfer also are topics of major concern.” -- Richard L. Kagan * Catholic Historical Review *“This book is a seminal text, an important addition to scholarship not only on the history of the Andes and colonial Latin America but on the semiotic, material, and meaning-making dimensions of colonial encounters generally. The book’s argument for a radically expanded notion of literacy is made with riveting force and precision. Received ideas about literacy and the domination of the written word have rarely been attacked through such a richly evocative analytic framework." -- Paja Faudree * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Beyond the Lettered City is full of highly original arguments and discoveries, and should be read by anyone with an interest in colonial Latin American art and writing." -- Alan Durston * Anthropos *Table of ContentsAbout the Series ix List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1. Imagining Colonial Culture 27 2. Genre/Gender/Género: "Que no es uno ni otro, ni está claro" 53 3. The Indigenous Lettered City 113 4. Genres in Action 153 5. The King's Quillca and the Rituality of Literacy 191 6. Reorienting the Colonial Body: Space and the Imposition of Literacy 219 Conclusion 251 Glossary 259 Notes 263 References Cited 317 Index 353

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary collection that addresses the racial and ethnic politics of knowledge production and indigenous activism in the Americas, this book analyzes the relationship of language to power and advocates for collaboration between community members, scholars, and activists that prioritize the right of Native people to decide how their knowledge is used.Trade Review"Decolonizing Native Histories is a stunning collection of essays from places and authors not often seen in each others' company: they range from Bolivia to Rapa Nui, from Louisiana to Hawai'i. To read of the predicaments and possibilities of a Quechua-language newspaper, racism in a Native American community, and indigenous political resurgence in Rapa Nui in the same volume presents a rare opportunity to compare strategies and gain inspiration, and to transcend seemingly impassable geographic and linguistic differences, to achieve commonality in treasuring our indigenous languages, cultures, and lands. Invaluable for anyone interested in global indigenous histories and politics."—Noenoe K. Silva, author of Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism“This fine volume highlights ways of writing indigenous history beyond the usual frameworks supplied by academia….This volume urges us out of our safe spaces to push the boundaries of what indigenous history can mean." -- Laura E. Matthew * Hispanic American Historical Review *“[S]cholars and students will benefit immensely from these explorations of the ways Indigenous people have transformed their relationship to the past, the state, and their interlocutors.” -- David Carey Jr. * Canadian Journal of Native Studies *“Overall, this ambitiously edited volume is able to deliver thoughtful essays, crossing geographic and political boundaries, which encourage the reader to examine Indigenous histories and narratives through the multi-faceted lens of decolonization in an international forum.” -- Heather Y. Shpuniarsky * AlterNative *“This is a high-quality contribution for understanding the impacts of colonial empires on the native peoples of the Americas and related island areas in the Pacific….The book is recommended for academic courses and professionals with common research interests.” -- Richard W. Stoffle * Bulletin of Latin American Research *"Decolonizing Native Histories, written within the context of decolonization and deoccupation agendas, is an absorbing book that appeals to the reader interested or active in indigenous restorative justice and indigenous theorizing. While the essays are complex and challenging, they bring many threads together offering a higher level of understanding of past and present indigenous issues." -- Yoly Zentella * Journal of Third World Studies *Table of ContentsAbout the Series vii Introduction. Decolonizing Knowledge, Language, and Narrative / Florencia E. Mallon 1 Part One. Land, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination 21 Hawaiian Nationhood, Self-Determination, and International Law / J. Kehaulani Kauanui 27 Issues of Land and Sovereignty: The Uneasy Relationship between Chile and Rapa Nui / Riet Delsing 54 Part Two. Indigenous Writing and Experiences with Collaboration 79 Quechua Knowledge, Orality, and Writings: The Newspaper Conosur Nawpagamn / Fernando Garcés V. 85 Collaboration and Historical Writing: Challenges for the Indigenous-Academic Dialogue / Joanne Rappaport and Abelardo Ramos Pacho 122 The Taller Tzotzil of Chiapas, Mexico: A Native Language Publishing Project, 1985–2002 / Jan Rus and Diane L. Rus 144 Part Three. Generations of Indigenous Activism and Internal Debates 175 Dangerous Decolonizing: Indians and Blacks and the Legacy of Jim Crow / Brian Klopotek 179 Nationalist Contradictions: Pan-Mayanism, Representations of the Past, and the Reproduction of Inequalities of Guatemala / Edgar Esquit 196 Conclusion 219 References 221 Contributors 243 Index 247

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Book SynopsisDrawing on his ethnographic research at powwow grounds and in recording studios, Christopher A. Scales examines the ways that powwow drum groups have utilized recording technology in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the unique aesthetic principles of recorded powwow music, and the relationships between drum groups and the Native music labels and recording studios.Trade Review"Recording Culture is an exceptional contribution to knowledge about contemporary Native American cultural initiatives. Within studies of powwow music, it is unique in its focus on aspects of CD production and issues related to the commodification of Native culture. It also provides original insights into matters such as the subtleties of drum beats, the evolving distinctions between song forms, and the criteria for judging powwow music. Christopher A. Scales's experience as a producer, as well as an ethnomusicologist, is particularly significant, since the material that he analyzes is not easily accessible outside the recording studio."—Beverley Diamond, author of Native American Music in Eastern North America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture"This is a fascinating study, at once deeply historical and thoroughly contemporary. Through his detailed exploration of the shifting ethics and aesthetics of powwow performance, Christopher A. Scales insightfully shows us how the powwow has always been a contemporary practice of identity negotiation."—David W. Samuels, author of Putting a Song on Top of It: Expression and Identity on the San Carlos Apache Reservation“While the book makes a clear contribution to the interdisciplinary field of indigenous studies, the work will also be of interest to scholars in cultural anthropology, folklore studies, and the author’s field of ethnomusicology. With this new title, Duke University Press continues its work of publishing important scholarship in Native American and indigenous studies that advances the field while consciously reaching beyond it to make accessible contributions of interest to scholars working outside its boundaries.” -- Jason Baird Jackson * Anthropological Quarterly *“This is an important, far-ranging discussion that deepens our understanding of powwow music in new and important ways.” -- Clide Ellis * Journal of American Studies *“Recording Culture will serve as an excellent resource for anyone who has never been to a powwow or who knows little about powwow dancing or music.” -- Nicky Belle * ARSC Journal *“An ambitious book on an important and all- too- oft en underrepresented topic pertaining to the musicking of American Indians: the struggle over the control of representation via mechanically reproducible recordings.” -- John Cline * American Indian Quarterly *“…A study that is both descriptive and theoretically sophisticated… Scales pulls off a remarkable study, one that every student of indigenous song traditions should read.” -- Luke Eric Lassiter * Great Plains Quarterly *"This engaging book will be of interest to ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, non-specialists interested in powwow music and contemporary indigenous culture, and scholars in Native American and indigenous studies." -- Kristina Jacobsen-Bia * Journal of Anthropological Research *“The book certainly has more interdisciplinary reach than is overtly written into it; those who work in performance studies and media studies will find much of interest, especially around issues related to the live and recorded production of music. Recording Culture is a welcome and significant contribution both to the study of Native and powwow music and performance, and to studies of the relationship between live and recorded musical expression.” -- Thomas G. Porcello * Ethnomusicology Forum *“Christopher A. Scales’s Recording Culture is a groundbreaking book that seamlessly combines two research areas that have rarely been examined together and that few scholars have the capacity to write on: Aboriginal powwow music and the recording industry.” -- Susan M. Taffe Reed * American Anthropologist *"Recording Culture and its accompanying CD are incomparable educational resources for the classroom.... Firmly grounded in ethnomusicological and community-based tradition, it is a flavorful description of the most widespread, colorful, living-breathing musical form known to indigenous peoples across Turtle Island." -- T. Christopher Aplin * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *"Recording Culture is conceptually sophisticated in approach and ethnographically detailed in its content.... Recording Culture [is] a pivotal addition to the literature on the powwow, the most widespread and dynamic vehicle of indigenous expressive culture in native North America." -- Grant Arndt * Ethnohistory *"All in all, this is a richly informative book, and one that lays the groundwork for what will hopefully be more studies documenting a particularly turbulent time in the music industry and the Native response of embracing technology and innovation." -- Tara Browner * Ethnomusicology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. Northern Plains Powwow Culture 1. Powwow Practices: Competition and the Discourse of Tradition 27 2. Powwow Songs: Aesthetics and Performance Practice 63 3. Drum Groups and Singers 112 Part II. The Mediation of Powwows 4. The Powwow Recording Industry in Western Canada: Race, Culture, and Commerce 143 5. Powwow Music in the Studio: Mediation and Musical Fields 187 6. Producing Powwow Music: The Aesthetics of Liveness 212 7. Powwows "Live" and "Mediated" 241 Coda. Recording Culture in the Twenty-First Century 268 Appendix: Notes on the CD Tracks 282 Notes 289 References 311 Index 323 A photo gallery appears after page 140.

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Book SynopsisSinging for the Dead chronicles how indigenous people from Oaxaca, Mexico's poorest state, have reversed decades of cultural and linguistic erosion by reviving and reinventing ethnic traditions, particularly by speaking and singing the local indigenous language.Trade Review“Paja Faudree’s ambitious new study of ethnic politics among Mazatec people combines a rich understanding of Oaxaca’s unique histories and a sophisticated knowledge of recent social theory...the author does a magnificent job of historicizing and ethnographically detailing the unique cultural revival occurring in the Mazatec region.” -- Howard Campbell * The Americas *"Singing for the Dead is an unusual work that brings a sophisticated analysis of language and song into dialogue with the contemporary history of factions and the politics of identification in the Mazatec region of Oaxaca. Paja Faudree deftly unpacks the intellectual and institutional infrastructure that has made a culturally innovative process of native revivalism possible."—Claudio Lomnitz, author of Death and the Idea of Mexico“A very well-written and important work on the anthropological linguistics of Mesoamerica. Essential.” -- P. R. Sullivan * Choice *"Singing for the Dead makes major theoretical and ethnographic contributions to studies of indigenous literacy, ethnic revival movements, and the ways in which politics functions through cultural forms. The book is historically and theoretically rich, situating the different examples of ethnic revival—the Day of the Dead song contest, the Mazatec Indigenous Church, and the work of indigenous Mazatec writers—in a wonderfully vibrant context."—Lynn Stephen, author of We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements"A major contribution to the study of ethnic revival movements in the Americas and elsewhere." -- Zoila Mendoza * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"This is a splendid book.” -- Chris Goertzen * Western Folklore *“The questions Singing for the Dead raises are provocative and well timed. An ethnographically grounded and nuanced study, this elegant contribution to knowledge on indigenous literature and literacy in Mexico extends disciplinary walls to address much broader questions of ethnic identity, social movements, and national belonging.” -- Alex E. Chávez * American Ethnologist *"Faudree’s book represents an important contribution to empirically founded discussions of the role of artistic practice in linguistic revitalization. In her rich portrait of grassroots initiatives in symbiotic relation with national ethnic demands, Faudree gives us reasons to feel hopeful about the future of indigenous literacy efforts in Mexico." -- Genner Llanes-Ortiz * American Anthropologist *"Faudree’s text is a rich and detailed meditation on the revival movements in Sierra Mazateca in Oaxaca, Mexico.... Those who study revitalization movements, Mazateco culture and history, or Oaxaca will find much food for thought in Singing for the Dead." -- Mintzi Auanda Martinez-Rivera * Journal of Folklore Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Note on Orthographic and Linguistic Conventions xiii Introduction. Leaving the Pueblo 1 1. From Revolution to Renaissance: A Political Geography and History of "Deep Mexico" 30 2. Revival in the "Land of the Magic Mushroom": A Recent History of Ethnic Relations in the Sierra Mazateca 75 3. Singing for the Spirits: The Annual Day of the Dead Song Contest 105 4. Scenes from a Nativist Reformation: The Mazatec Indigenous Church 141 5. Meeting at the Family Crypt: Social Fault Lines and the Fragility of Community 174 6. Seeing Double: Indigenous Authors, Readers, and the Paradox of Revival 197 Conclusion. Singing for the Dead and the Living: Revival, Indigenous Publics, and the National Afterlife 236 Notes 251 References 277 Index 297

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Book SynopsisAn ethnography showing that collective land titling for native peoples is both an enormous accomplishment and a source of new expectations, obligations, and subjectivities within the legally established indigenous territories.Trade Review"Governing Indigenous Territories is a beautiful ethnography, a compelling contribution to contemporary debates about sovereignty in Latin America. The story that Juliet S. Erazo tells is about not just Ecuador or Latin America but larger political, economic, social, and ecological histories, practices, and ideologies. This is contemporary ethnography at its best."—Paige West, author of From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea"Governing Indigenous Territories is a superb work. Through rich ethnographic descriptions, Juliet S. Erazo breaks through essentialized notions of Amazonian Indigenous communities, capturing the dynamic, complex, changing nature of human experience. At the same time, she tells a global story of territoriality and resource use, a story involving local and federal governments, social movements, and nongovernmental organizations. This landmark book will appeal broadly across disciplines and provide a basis for future research."—Marc Becker, author of Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador's Modern Indigenous Movements"Governing Indigenous Territories is an exceptional case study of the complicated issues surrounding concepts of 'indigenous territory,' 'indigenous sovereignty,' and 'territorial citizenship.' It is a sharp, insightful analysis of the extraordinary obligations that modern nation-states often place on indigenous residents who wish to maintain what was previously theirs."—Jean E. Jackson, coeditor of Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America“Juliet Erazo’s Governing Indigenous Territories is a thoughtful ethnography of indigenous politics and ‘territorial citizenship’ in the space of Rukullakta… Ultimately, the case study that this book encompasses is an excellent lens for understanding the political space of encounters between Amazonian Kichwa and the Ecuadorian state and non-state actors….” -- Veronica Davidov * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *“This clear, well-organized book traces the 40-year ethnographic history of a self-governing autonomous region, Rukullakta Territory, in lowland Ecuador, providing a well-documented case study of how a community emerges…. Recommended.” -- D. B. Heath * Choice *[A]n important book that should have wide appeal among geographers.” -- Karl Offen * Journal of Latin American Geography * "An insightful study of indigenous sovereignty enactment in the Ecuadorian Amazon as an exercise of continuous cultural and societal negotiation." -- Ileana Baeza Lope * AmeriQuests *"Governing Indigenous Territories effectively reminds us of the ambiguities of identity categories and explores how people mobilize identity to push the limits of and remake the categories through which life is governed. Erazo’s narrative is attentive to how these flexibilities are part and parcel of how Rukullacta evolved as a territorial entity—what she calls 'everyday forms of territorial formation.' " -- Gabriela Valdivia * American Anthropologist *"Governing Indigenous Territories is a significant contribution to the literature on Ecuadoran and Latin American indigenous politics. It is well-suited for teaching, and will be appreciated by specialists." -- Bret Gustafson * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“A valuable and thought provoking contribution.” -- Melissa M. Forbis * PoLAR *Table of ContentsList of Maps ix Selected Acronyms xi Acknowledgments xiii Preface xvii Introduction 1 1. History, Empowerment, and Rule 27 2. Collectivist Utopias and "The Graveyard of Development Projects" 61 3. The Property Debate 97 4. Conservation and Environmental Subjects 133 5. Everyday Forms of Territory Formation 171 Conclusion. Making Citizens, Making Leaders, Making Territories 195 Appendixes 201 Notes 205 References 215 Index 227

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Book SynopsisWhere the River Ends examines the response of the Cucapá people of Mexico's northwest coast to the state's claim that they are not "indigenous enough" to merit the special fishing rights which would allow them to subsist during environmental crisis.Trade Review"A vivid portrait of the double-bind that traps growing numbers of native people who are denied ancestral rights and legitimacy by outsiders' criteria for ethnic difference. In stories laced with humor and insight, this highly readable ethnography shows how identity coalesces in unexpected places as the Cucapá cope with narcotrafficking, celebrate women's leadership in contrast to Mexican machismo, and cultivate expert vocabularies of indigenous swear words."—Beth A. Conklin, Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University"Shaylih Muehlmann's richly peopled, intimate ethnography explores matters of identity and recognition, structure and agency, resistance and complicity as they emerge through the events, predicaments, and dilemmas of daily life. The characters at the center of her account are neither victims nor heroes, but reflective and often flawed subjects, engaged in struggles over resources, meanings, and the pragmatic business of survival. Where the River Ends leads us into their world. It is a lively read. Highly recommended."—Tania Murray Li, author of The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics “Muehlmann offers a thought-provoking, well-written, and important ethnography. This book is recommended particularly for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, and for the interested public. It is supplemented with helpful and clear figures and maps.” -- Emma S. Norman * Environmental History * “This well-researched and illustrated depiction of global forces at work in particular places (with excellent maps and images), is at the crux of the work as ‘political’ but it is not categorically aligned with a particular ideology. This is positioned ethnography—the writing is ‘witness’ to powerful process (63) with a focus on everyday conditions. . . . This methodological expansiveness is paired with succinct and relevant reviews of conceptual literature and rich ethnography often through vignettes. Being also a slim volume, the book would be a valuableaddition to upper level undergraduate and graduate coursework in environmental anthropology, indigenous studies, and methods courses.” -- Sally Babidge * Anthropological Forum *"An eloquently argued and ethnographically grounded critique of the general understanding of tradition as fixed heritage, and of indigeneity as inhering in unchanged language, livelihoods, and practices." -- Franz Krause * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“I believe that the book will work well in the classroom, not only for its vivid stories but because of the way that Muehlmann brings the scholarly literature to bear in every argument, showing which ideas she brings along and where and how she has to modify and develop ideas. In this way, the book can be used to teach about fieldwork and analytic methods as well as provide a strong lesson in ‘how environmental conflicts are never just about “the environment”’ (p. 172).” -- Stephanie C. Kane * PoLAR *"This is a timely and important book that will interest indigenous activists, scholars,and policymakers concerned with preserving the ecological health of the Colorado River basin. Muehlmann’s work also provides a powerful comparative tool for those interested in understanding the ways that native communities can and should play a prominent role in preserving global ecological borderlands like the lower Colorado delta." -- Natale Zappia * Hispanic American Historical Review *"[Muehlmann’s] rich and nuanced ethnography of a Cucapá village gives an intimate portrait of this community. The reader gets to know her interlocutors as real, reflexive, active, and flawed people struggling to survive in abject conditions." -- Randall H. McGuire * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsIllustrations and Maps ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. "Listen for When Your Get There": Topologies of Invisibility on the Colorado River 25 2. The Fishing Conflict and the Making and Unmaking of Indigenous Authenticity 55 3. "What Else Can I Do with a Boat and No Nets?" Ideologies of Work and the Alternatives at Home 83 4. Mexican Machismo and a Woman's Worth 118 5. "Spread Your Ass Cheeks": And Other Things That Shouldn't Get Said in Indigenous Languages 146 Conclusions 171 Notes 181 References 189 Index 215

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Book SynopsisAn ethnography showing that collective land titling for native peoples is both an enormous accomplishment and a source of new expectations, obligations, and subjectivities within the legally established indigenous territories.Trade Review"Governing Indigenous Territories is a beautiful ethnography, a compelling contribution to contemporary debates about sovereignty in Latin America. The story that Juliet S. Erazo tells is about not just Ecuador or Latin America but larger political, economic, social, and ecological histories, practices, and ideologies. This is contemporary ethnography at its best."—Paige West, author of From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea"Governing Indigenous Territories is a superb work. Through rich ethnographic descriptions, Juliet S. Erazo breaks through essentialized notions of Amazonian Indigenous communities, capturing the dynamic, complex, changing nature of human experience. At the same time, she tells a global story of territoriality and resource use, a story involving local and federal governments, social movements, and nongovernmental organizations. This landmark book will appeal broadly across disciplines and provide a basis for future research."—Marc Becker, author of Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador's Modern Indigenous Movements"Governing Indigenous Territories is an exceptional case study of the complicated issues surrounding concepts of 'indigenous territory,' 'indigenous sovereignty,' and 'territorial citizenship.' It is a sharp, insightful analysis of the extraordinary obligations that modern nation-states often place on indigenous residents who wish to maintain what was previously theirs."—Jean E. Jackson, coeditor of Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America“Juliet Erazo’s Governing Indigenous Territories is a thoughtful ethnography of indigenous politics and ‘territorial citizenship’ in the space of Rukullakta… Ultimately, the case study that this book encompasses is an excellent lens for understanding the political space of encounters between Amazonian Kichwa and the Ecuadorian state and non-state actors….” -- Veronica Davidov * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *“This clear, well-organized book traces the 40-year ethnographic history of a self-governing autonomous region, Rukullakta Territory, in lowland Ecuador, providing a well-documented case study of how a community emerges…. Recommended.” -- D. B. Heath * Choice *[A]n important book that should have wide appeal among geographers.” -- Karl Offen * Journal of Latin American Geography * "An insightful study of indigenous sovereignty enactment in the Ecuadorian Amazon as an exercise of continuous cultural and societal negotiation." -- Ileana Baeza Lope * AmeriQuests *"Governing Indigenous Territories effectively reminds us of the ambiguities of identity categories and explores how people mobilize identity to push the limits of and remake the categories through which life is governed. Erazo’s narrative is attentive to how these flexibilities are part and parcel of how Rukullacta evolved as a territorial entity—what she calls 'everyday forms of territorial formation.' " -- Gabriela Valdivia * American Anthropologist *"Governing Indigenous Territories is a significant contribution to the literature on Ecuadoran and Latin American indigenous politics. It is well-suited for teaching, and will be appreciated by specialists." -- Bret Gustafson * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“A valuable and thought provoking contribution.” -- Melissa M. Forbis * PoLAR *Table of ContentsList of Maps ix Selected Acronyms xi Acknowledgments xiii Preface xvii Introduction 1 1. History, Empowerment, and Rule 27 2. Collectivist Utopias and "The Graveyard of Development Projects" 61 3. The Property Debate 97 4. Conservation and Environmental Subjects 133 5. Everyday Forms of Territory Formation 171 Conclusion. Making Citizens, Making Leaders, Making Territories 195 Appendixes 201 Notes 205 References 215 Index 227

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Book SynopsisSeeking to understand these transformations in the capacities of Native communities to resist cultural, economic, and political domination, this book offers an ethnographic analysis of aboriginal Canadians' changing experiences of historical violence.Trade Review“Skin for Skin is a volume that everyone who interacts with the native communities in this province should read, including the Innu and Inuit themselves if possible. The voice is passionate, intense, and very personal, bordering on aggressively confrontational at times." -- Robin McGrath * The Telegram (Newfoundland) *“What makes the book truly compelling is twofold. The two final chapters acknowledge the author's own evolution as an anthropologist and researcher who came to better understand how to witness and reflect indigenous peoples' capacities to resist cultural, economic, and political domination. Secondly, there is a complex, nuanced recognition of those Inuit and Innu who have struggled to create some kind of new and reestablished old order out of the chaos that comes with imposed colonial and neocolonial order. Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries.” -- G. Bruyere * Choice *“I welcome Sider’s scrutiny of megadevelopment projects, key sites where the neocolonial interests of state and capital continue to divest indigenous peoples of equitable economic revenues within their own territories. His attention to the forms of indigenous ‘semisovereignty’ (170) emerging in the wake of asymmetrical land claims agreements is also urgent and necessary.” -- Arie Molema * North American Dialogue *“The first half of Sider’s text is a rough but important read. The reader is given a thorough journey through a colonial history badly in need of deconstruction. Sider delivers." -- Frank Tester * Arctic *“[T]he book deserves in-depth discussion because it thoroughly presents a critical and engaging study of a particular process that can be read as a generalized trait of the current production in capitalism of disposable populations (Žižek 2014) while at the same time relating it to the historical background of European expansion. The great merit of Gerald Sider is his ability to maintain, with mastery and dexterity, the tensions that surrounds those historical and partial processes of violence in which dependency and autonomy, dignity and vexation, control and chaos, past and future, and life and death, constitute parts of a fragmented totality with which Innu and Inuit have had to deal both within and against.” -- Ulises Villafuerte * Dialectical Anthropology *“Overall, this book is thick and rich with material that will be of interest to a wide range of readers. For me, a non-Aboriginal political scientist who occasionally writes about Indigenous–settler politics in Canada, the most interesting contribution of this book is its challenge to researchers to think more carefully about how we carry out research involving Indigenous communities.” -- Christopher Alcantara * Journal of American Ethnic History *"This is a very enjoyable book to read in spite of its difficult subject matter.... If you read this book in its entirety, you will understand, and have compassion for, the Native peoples who underwent and continue to experience the trauma of racism and imperialism. I highly recommend this book as a way to look at present-day trauma that is rooted in history and past abuses of Native peoples." -- Mary Hampton * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *"This book stands out as an excellent account of the horrors of colonialism. It is a must read for those interested in learning how governments and corporations have treated Native peoples." -- Michael J. Kral * Canadian Journal of Native Studies *"This is an excellent book, passionate, compassionate, yet compiled with attention to great detail and careful argument; as we would expect from this outstanding anthropologist." -- Chris Haynes * Anthropological Forum *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Historical Violence 2. Owning Death and Life: Making "Indians" and "Eskimos" from Native Peoples 3. Living within and against Tradition, 1800–1920 4. The Peoples without a Country 5. Mapping Dignity 6. Life in a Concentration Village 7. Today May Become Tomorrow 8. Warriors of Wisdom Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisLynn Stephen uses the Oaxaca social movement of 2006 to illustrate how oral testimony is central to rights-claiming, participatory democracy, knowledge creation, and the production of new political subjects in contemporary social movements.Trade Review"We Are the Face of Oaxaca is a magnificent book. A model of engaged scholarship and the best work yet by Lynn Stephen, it is an original analysis of the massive popular rebellion in Oaxaca, Mexico, during 2006–07. Given her deep, long-term ties to Oaxacans in both Mexico and the United States, Stephen is uniquely positioned to analyze the social movement and the significance of participants' testimonials in its production and reception."—Patricia Zavella, author of I'm Neither Here nor There: Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty"Given the new visibility of protest, Lynn Stephen's fascinating book offers a valuable opportunity to understand how protest movements work at the grass roots. This ethnography of the Oaxacan protest of 2006 focuses on testimony: the performed, embodied act of telling a story. Protesters’ courageous testimonies broadcast over the radio made a difference. The book and its website with recordings provide a wonderful opportunity to hear the testimonies of those with courage to speak."—Sally Engle Merry, author of Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice“We Are the Face of Oaxaca is well suited for upper- or graduate-level courses, and is supported by the web site contents which are a welcome additions for interactive teaching. The work is unique in that the author has a personally informed view of the area of study and was able to capture testimonies and events on video and tape to create the book’s accompanying web site. . . . We are the Face of Oaxaca is an engaged ethnography that represents what the struggle was about, the voice of the people.” -- Paulette F. Steeves * North American Dialogue *“The analysis of testimony and human rights is valuable well beyond the case of Oaxaca. Woven throughout the text are segments of testimonies from the activists involved in the APPO, and links to a bilingual website containing video clips, maps, and photos, which will be particularly useful for university classes. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” -- C. M. Kovic * Choice *"Readers who are familiar with conditions in Oaxaca as well as those who were unaware of recent events will appreciate Stephen’s masterful weaving of scholarship in English and Spanish to provide a concise yet probing summary of 50 years of social unrest across a diverse state." -- Jayne Howell * Journal of Anthropological Research *“This work will be of upmost interest to the numerous anthropologists and other researchers who work in Oaxaca, from senior scholars to aspiring graduate students. It will also appeal to scholars of social movements, human rights, and testimony. Nevertheless, others seeking critical perspectives on the political terrain and social unrest that constantly threaten to destabilize the multicultural tourist fantasyland promoted by the Oaxacan state will also benefit from this well-written ethnography.” -- Ronda Brulotte * American Anthropologist *“Through the lens of oral history, Stephen offers a new way of looking at how the state engages with native peoples. . . . [T]his rich and innovative book offers an incredible contribution to social movement literature. It will be of interest to activists and scholars alike.” -- Kathleen M. McIntyre * The Latin Americanist *“While Oaxacan journalists and scholars have published articles and anthologies about the 2006 movement, We Are the Face of Oaxaca is the most important English language study on the movement to date. The pages of this book are seeped with the insights of a distinguished scholar with years of fieldwork and personal ties to Oaxacan transnational communities.” -- Luis Sánchez-López * Biography *“[A] good book is one that provokes thought, new questions, and new research. Lynn Stephen’s book chronicles one of the most important contemporary Latin American social movements and raises many questions key to their analysis. For that she is deserving of much praise and a wide readership.” -- Howard Campbell * The Americas *"This book contains a new and important analysis of social movements, emphasizing the way contemporary heterogeneous movements are organized and what their impact can be, especially bringing those on the margins to the center and creating multiple political subjects. This book is a model of the kind of engaged anthropology that is the future of our discipline." -- Louise Lamphere * North American Dialogue *“[Stephen] presents many of the testimonials in relatively unvarnished form so as to allow activists to speak for themselves and to come alive to an enlarged audience…. It is this kind of innovative ethnographic approach and politically engaged scholarship that marks this book as an important work that will be of interest to scholars studying social movements within Mexico and around the world.” -- Rick López * Hispanic American Historical Review *"Few scholars are better qualified than is Stephen to write about the arc of social protest that led to the formation of APPO, and its eventual unraveling." -- Marc Becker * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsMaps, Illustrations, and Videoclips vii Acronyms and Abbreviations xi About the Website xv Acknowledgments xvii 1. Testimony: Human Rights, and Social Movements 1 2. Histories and Movements: Antecedents to the Social Movement of 2006 36 3. The Emergence of the APPO and the 2006 Oaxaca Social Movement 66 4. Testimony and Human Rights Violations in Oaxaca 95 5. Community and Indigenous Radio in Oaxaca: Testimony and Participatory Democracy 121 6. The Women's Takeover of Media in Oaxaca: Gendered Rights "to Speak" and "to Be Heard" 145 7. The Economics and Politics of Conflict: Perspectives from Oaxacan Artisans, Merchants, and Business Owners 178 8. In Indigenous Activism: The Triqui Autonomous Municipality, APPO Juxtlahuaca, and Transborder Organizing in AAPO-L.A. 209 9. From Barricades to Autonomy and Art: Youth Organizing in Oaxaca 245 Conclusions 276 Notes 289 Bibliography 303 Index 323

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Book SynopsisSeeking to understand these transformations in the capacities of Native communities to resist cultural, economic, and political domination, this book offers an ethnographic analysis of aboriginal Canadians' changing experiences of historical violence.Trade Review“Skin for Skin is a volume that everyone who interacts with the native communities in this province should read, including the Innu and Inuit themselves if possible. The voice is passionate, intense, and very personal, bordering on aggressively confrontational at times." -- Robin McGrath * The Telegram (Newfoundland) *“What makes the book truly compelling is twofold. The two final chapters acknowledge the author's own evolution as an anthropologist and researcher who came to better understand how to witness and reflect indigenous peoples' capacities to resist cultural, economic, and political domination. Secondly, there is a complex, nuanced recognition of those Inuit and Innu who have struggled to create some kind of new and reestablished old order out of the chaos that comes with imposed colonial and neocolonial order. Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries.” -- G. Bruyere * Choice *“I welcome Sider’s scrutiny of megadevelopment projects, key sites where the neocolonial interests of state and capital continue to divest indigenous peoples of equitable economic revenues within their own territories. His attention to the forms of indigenous ‘semisovereignty’ (170) emerging in the wake of asymmetrical land claims agreements is also urgent and necessary.” -- Arie Molema * North American Dialogue *“The first half of Sider’s text is a rough but important read. The reader is given a thorough journey through a colonial history badly in need of deconstruction. Sider delivers." -- Frank Tester * Arctic *“[T]he book deserves in-depth discussion because it thoroughly presents a critical and engaging study of a particular process that can be read as a generalized trait of the current production in capitalism of disposable populations (Žižek 2014) while at the same time relating it to the historical background of European expansion. The great merit of Gerald Sider is his ability to maintain, with mastery and dexterity, the tensions that surrounds those historical and partial processes of violence in which dependency and autonomy, dignity and vexation, control and chaos, past and future, and life and death, constitute parts of a fragmented totality with which Innu and Inuit have had to deal both within and against.” -- Ulises Villafuerte * Dialectical Anthropology *“Overall, this book is thick and rich with material that will be of interest to a wide range of readers. For me, a non-Aboriginal political scientist who occasionally writes about Indigenous–settler politics in Canada, the most interesting contribution of this book is its challenge to researchers to think more carefully about how we carry out research involving Indigenous communities.” -- Christopher Alcantara * Journal of American Ethnic History *"This is a very enjoyable book to read in spite of its difficult subject matter.... If you read this book in its entirety, you will understand, and have compassion for, the Native peoples who underwent and continue to experience the trauma of racism and imperialism. I highly recommend this book as a way to look at present-day trauma that is rooted in history and past abuses of Native peoples." -- Mary Hampton * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *"This book stands out as an excellent account of the horrors of colonialism. It is a must read for those interested in learning how governments and corporations have treated Native peoples." -- Michael J. Kral * Canadian Journal of Native Studies *"This is an excellent book, passionate, compassionate, yet compiled with attention to great detail and careful argument; as we would expect from this outstanding anthropologist." -- Chris Haynes * Anthropological Forum *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Historical Violence 2. Owning Death and Life: Making "Indians" and "Eskimos" from Native Peoples 3. Living within and against Tradition, 1800–1920 4. The Peoples without a Country 5. Mapping Dignity 6. Life in a Concentration Village 7. Today May Become Tomorrow 8. Warriors of Wisdom Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisFocuses on the lives of four indigenous activist-intellectuals in Bolivia, key leaders in the Alcaldes Mayores Particulares (AMP), a movement established to claim rights for indigenous education and reclaim indigenous lands from hacienda owners.Trade Review"A good summary of the Bolivian AMP for all Latin American social science researchers. . . . Highly recommended. All levels and libraries." -- D. L. Browman * Choice *"This is really a treasure, a lens into the lives, visions, and political practices of the forebears of the contemporary movement that is changing Bolivia." -- Nancy Postero & Devin Beaulieu * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"This book is recommended for readers interested in indigenous history, Andean religious practices, or for use in courses on law, politics, or race in Latin America." * Colonial Latin American Historical Review *"Ari’s work is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the longer histories of indigenous revitalization in Bolivia.... [S]tudents of Latin America should read it closely to gain a fuller understanding of both the complexities of indigenous political projects and the stubborn durability of the colonial foundations of the Latin American state." -- Bret Gustafson * The Historian *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. Building the Indian Law and a Decolonization Project in Bolivia 1 2. Nation Making and the Genealogy of the AMP Indigenous Activists 31 3. The Beginning of the Decolonization Project: Toribio Miranda's Framing and Dissemination of the Indian Law 55 4. Against Cholification: Gregorio Titiriku's Urban Experience and the Development of Earth Politics in Segregated Times 81 5. Between Internal Colonialism and War: Melitón Gallardo in the Southern Andean Estates 115 6. Against Whitening: Andrés Jacha'qullu's Movement between Worlds in the Era of the Bolivian National Revolution of 1952 135 Conclusion. The AMP's Innovations and Its Legacy in Bolivia under Evo Morales 171 Appendix 1 189 Appendix 2 193 Notes 199 Glossary 227 Selected Bibiolography 233 Index 251

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Book SynopsisCombining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawake, a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec, this book examines their struggles to articulate and maintain political sovereignty through centuries of settler colonialism.Trade Review“In her brilliant study of Kahnawà:ke, a Mohawk reserve outside Montréal, anthropologist Simpson rejects this dominant image of indigenous nationhood on the brink and ‘starts with a grounded refusal, not a precipice.’ The author problematizes long-standing assumptions to position the actions of the Kahnawà:ke nation as that of refusal, a valid alternative to political recognition. Through in-depth ethnographic research, Simpson identifies what is important to the community, as evidenced by her discussion of important intellectual Louis Hall, whose analysis of Mohawk nationhood has deeply influenced Haudenosaunee people, yet has been largely ignored by scholars. . . . Such incisive analysis promises that this study will be influential and widely read. . . . Essential. All levels/libraries.” -- K. L. Ackley * Choice *“Simpson accomplishes what she set out to do in this text, namely to offer a critical evaluation of settler colonialism as experienced by Kahnawà:ke Mohawk. Her book is beautifully written: her prose is elegant, and she interweaves ethnographic research with political history and theory to build her argument. … Simpson enhances our understanding of how a community of people struggle to understand, and why they must continually fight for, their political independence after centuries of settler colonialism.” -- Ruth Burgett Jolie * Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism *“[A]n essential read for any study of settler colonialism, native/indigenous/first-nation studies, or the study of sovereignty, and also stands on its own as an important narrative of North America’s ongoing colonial history.” -- Ian Kalman * Comparative Studies in Society and History *“Mohawk Interruptus deftly interrogates how settler colonialism and anthropological practice in the United States and Canada have circumscribed Iroquoian (Haudenosaunee) identities—and Mohawk identities, in particular—in ways that ignore contested interpretations of indigeneity and serve to erase indigenous nationhood. … A major takeaway from Simpson’s account is that anthropologists, political scientists, historians, and those of us in Native American studies need to theorize and examine how people experience and feel membership, citizenship, and nationhood while not replicating colonial projects of erasure in our scholarly research and writing." -- Lisa K. Neuman * American Ethnologist *“[A] tour de force exploration of contemporary Kahnawa:ke political life. . . . In its examination and sustained critique of the settler colonialism and the politics of nationhood, recognition, and refusal, and its vision of more productive and inclusive understandings of Kahnawa:ke citizenship, Mohawk Interruptus joins some of the most provocative and cutting-edge work taking place in Native/indigenous studies today. We would be wise to heed its challenge to develop similarly rigorous and critical studies of indigenous self-determination throughout the hemisphere, in whatever forms they might take.” -- Kirby Brown * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *"Mohawk Interruptus, was recently voted 'Best First Book Published in 2014' by the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, and after reading it I can understand why.... The complexities of Indigenous life in Mohawk Interruptus are given neither the security of romanticization nor the comfort of the scholarly pulpit." -- Brendan Hokowhitu * Native American and Indigenous Studies *"Rather than merely a book of and for anthropology, then, Mohawk Interruptus calls upon its reader to rethink action and collectivity through a different modality than the current political registers presume. Refusal, both as a political theoretical concept and as a quotidian shared practice, may allow a continued, powerful, and even potentially joyful relationship to state power." -- Kennan Ferguson * Theory & Event *"[Simpson] offers a highly nuanced and theoretically sophisticated ethnographical study illustrating the kinds of critical research questions insider researchers can ask that lead to new understandings and challenge the orthodoxy. Simpson has made a significant contribution as an insider researcher, an Indigenous studies scholar, an anthropologist, that highlights the exciting new era of Indigenous research we have entered." -- Robert Alexander Innes * Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History *"I expect Mohawk Interruptus will assert its place in the Haudenosaunee canon, which will compel subsequent scholars to take a closer look at how Indigenous communities in general struggle to maintain their political integrity under the pressure of a variety of colonially created borders and the laws that enforce them over the sovereign rights of others." -- David Martínez * Wicazo Sa Review *"This marvelous book is a searing exposition of a Kahnawà:ke Mohawk subjectivity hardened in opposition to social 'facts' taken for granted by millions in settler societies. . . . Readers will appreciate Simpson’s passionately argued and provocative thesis, in-depth and intimate ethnographic descriptions, incisive prose, and iconoclastic engagements with anthropological history and political theory." -- Nicholas Copeland * North American Dialogue *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. Indigenous Interruptions: Mohawk Nationhood, Citizenship, and the State 1 2. A Brief History of Land, Meaning, and Membership in Iroquoia and Kahnawà:ka 37 3. Constructing Kahnawà:ka as an "Out-of-the-Way" Place: Ely S. Parker, Lewis Henry Morgan, and the Writing of the Iroquois Confederacy 67 4. Ethnographic Refusal: Anthropological Need 95 5. Borders, Cigarettes, and Sovereignty 115 6. The Gender of the Flint: Mohawk Nationhood and Citizenship in the Face of Empire 147 Conclusion. Interruptus 177 Appendix. A Note on Materials and Methodology 195 Notes 201 References 229 Index 251

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Book SynopsisVia military conquest, Catholic evangelization, and intercultural engagement and struggle, a vast array of knowledge circulated through the Spanish viceroyalties in Mexico and the Andes. This book highlights the critical role that indigenous intellectuals played in this cultural ferment.Trade Review"The beauty of this volume is that the collected essays touch on so many topics key to colonial studies today... that it is no longer possible to exclude indigenous intellectuals from the scholarly discussion or the university classroom. With regard to the latter, the volume is a boon to those who have long wished to include indigenous voices in their advanced undergraduate and graduate-level seminars but did not know where to begin." -- Kelly S. McDonough * Ethnohistory *"The editors' framing of the project is thoughtful. They are sensitive to historical change on both the Indigenous and European sides of the cultural divide, and to the many ways in which knowledge could be inscribed.... The contributors to Indigenous Intellectuals deserve great credit for putting their topic on the map and making major advances within it." -- Raphael Folsom * Canadian Journal of Native Studies *"[T]his volume... represents a major step forward in further deconstructing Spanish presentations of colonial realities." -- Claudia Brosseder * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Elizabeth Hill Boone ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction / Gabriela Ramos and Yanna Yannakakis 1 Part I. Indigenous Functionaries: Ethnicity, Networks, and Institutions 1. Indigenous Intellectuals in Andean Colonial Cities / Gabriela Ramos 21 2. The Brothers Fernando de Alva Ixtilxochitl and Bartolome de Alva: Two "Native" Intellectuals of Seventeenth-Century Mexico / John Frederick Schwaller 39 3. Trained by Jesuits: Indigenous Letrados in Seventeenth-Century Peru / John Charles 60 4. Making Law Intelligible: Networks of Translation in Mid-Colonial Oaxaca / Yanna Yannakakis 79 Part II. Native Historians: Sources, Frameworks, and Authorship 5. Chimalpahin and Why Women Matter in History / Susan Schroeder 107 6. The Concept of the Nahua Historian: Don Juan Zapata's Scholarly Tradition / Camilla Townsend 132 7. Cristobal Choquescasa and the Making of the Huarochiri Manuscript / Alan Durston 151 Part III. Forms of Knowledge: Genealogies, Maps, and Archives 8. Indigenous Genealogies: Lineage, History, and the Colonial Pact in Central Mexico and Peru / Maria Elena Martinez 9. The Dawning Places: Celestially Defined Land Maps, Titulos Primordiales, and Indigenous Statements of Territorial Possession in Early Colonial Mexico / Eleanor Wake 202 10. The Quilcaycamayoq: Making Indigenous Archives in Colonial Cuzco / Kathryn Burns 237 Conclusion / Tristan Platt 261 Bibliography 279 Contributors 307 Index 311

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Book SynopsisVia military conquest, Catholic evangelization, and intercultural engagement and struggle, a vast array of knowledge circulated through the Spanish viceroyalties in Mexico and the Andes. This book highlights the critical role that indigenous intellectuals played in this cultural ferment.Trade Review"The beauty of this volume is that the collected essays touch on so many topics key to colonial studies today... that it is no longer possible to exclude indigenous intellectuals from the scholarly discussion or the university classroom. With regard to the latter, the volume is a boon to those who have long wished to include indigenous voices in their advanced undergraduate and graduate-level seminars but did not know where to begin." -- Kelly S. McDonough * Ethnohistory *"The editors' framing of the project is thoughtful. They are sensitive to historical change on both the Indigenous and European sides of the cultural divide, and to the many ways in which knowledge could be inscribed.... The contributors to Indigenous Intellectuals deserve great credit for putting their topic on the map and making major advances within it." -- Raphael Folsom * Canadian Journal of Native Studies *"[T]his volume... represents a major step forward in further deconstructing Spanish presentations of colonial realities." -- Claudia Brosseder * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Elizabeth Hill Boone ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction / Gabriela Ramos and Yanna Yannakakis 1 Part I. Indigenous Functionaries: Ethnicity, Networks, and Institutions 1. Indigenous Intellectuals in Andean Colonial Cities / Gabriela Ramos 21 2. The Brothers Fernando de Alva Ixtilxochitl and Bartolome de Alva: Two "Native" Intellectuals of Seventeenth-Century Mexico / John Frederick Schwaller 39 3. Trained by Jesuits: Indigenous Letrados in Seventeenth-Century Peru / John Charles 60 4. Making Law Intelligible: Networks of Translation in Mid-Colonial Oaxaca / Yanna Yannakakis 79 Part II. Native Historians: Sources, Frameworks, and Authorship 5. Chimalpahin and Why Women Matter in History / Susan Schroeder 107 6. The Concept of the Nahua Historian: Don Juan Zapata's Scholarly Tradition / Camilla Townsend 132 7. Cristobal Choquescasa and the Making of the Huarochiri Manuscript / Alan Durston 151 Part III. Forms of Knowledge: Genealogies, Maps, and Archives 8. Indigenous Genealogies: Lineage, History, and the Colonial Pact in Central Mexico and Peru / Maria Elena Martinez 9. The Dawning Places: Celestially Defined Land Maps, Titulos Primordiales, and Indigenous Statements of Territorial Possession in Early Colonial Mexico / Eleanor Wake 202 10. The Quilcaycamayoq: Making Indigenous Archives in Colonial Cuzco / Kathryn Burns 237 Conclusion / Tristan Platt 261 Bibliography 279 Contributors 307 Index 311

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Book SynopsisIncludes essays that demonstrate how Native studies can productively engage with others seeking to dismantle and decolonize the settler state, including scholars putting theory to use in critical ethnic studies, gender and sexuality studies, and postcolonial studies.Trade Review“Theory might be read as ever-present according to this collection, but practice is clearly important too—Native practice in Native ways; Native activism, projects, scholarship. … In effect, the book allows theory and practice to lean against each other as steadfast partners in the Native matters that make Native studies important beyond the academy, double-underlining the Native-ness on which its chapters are grounded.” -- Aroha Harris * Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History *"Given that academics continue to debate the efficacy of theory, Theorizing Native Studies supplies a necessary contribution to the field.... The editors have achieved their goal of compiling a collection that serves as an important contribution to theoretical studies in general, and Native Studies in particular." -- Monica L. Butler * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Although each individual essay offers an important intervention on its own terms, as a collection, the volume is a vibrant snapshot of the field while also gesturing toward new horizons of theoretical possibility.” -- Hokulani K. Aikau * Western Historical Quarterly *“The collected essays provide a helpful overview of the work of a new generation of activist Native academics and artists, many of them participants both in local community or transnational organizing and the Critical Ethnic Studies Association founded in 2011. … [A] groundbreaking contribution to the burgeoning writing in theorized politics and Native Studies activist scholarship that will have broad ramifications across many fields and movements for many years to come.” -- Joe Parker * Women's Studies *"This book should be required reading for all students contemplating advanced scholarship in the field of Indigenous studies. It is a much needed corrective to decades of misplaced hostility directed towards theory in general, and Indigenous theory in particular. I recommend it highly." -- Heather Devine * Canadian Journal of Native Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction / Audra Simpson and Andrea Smith 1 1. There Is a River in Me: Theory from Life / Dian Million 31 2. The Ancestors We Get to Choose: White Influences I Won't Deny / Teresia Teaiwa 43 3. From Wards of the State to Subjects of Recognition? Marx, Indigenous Peoples, and the Politics of Dispossession in Denendeh / Glen Coulthard 56 4. Contract and Usurpation: Enfranchisement and Racial Governance in Settler-Colonial Contexts / Robert Nichols 99 5. "In This Separation": The Noncorrespondence of Joseph Johnson / Christopher Bracken 122 6. Making Peoples into Populations: The Racial Limits of Tribal Sovereignty / Mark Rifkin 149 7. Indigenous Transnationalism and the AIDS Pandemic: Challenging Settler Colonialism within Global Health Governance / Scott Lauria Morgensen 188 8. Native Studies at the Horizon of Death: Theorizing Ethnographic Entrapment and Settler Self-Reflexivity / Andrea Smith 207 9. Disrupting a Settler-Colonial Grammar of Place: The Visual Memoir of Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie / Mishuana R. Goeman 235 10. The Devil in the Details: Controverting an American Indian Conversion Narrative / Vera B. Palmer 266 Bibliography 297 Contributors 321 Index 323

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Book SynopsisNancy van Deusen examines over one hundred lawsuits that indio slaves brought to the Spanish court in the mid-sixteenth century to gain their freedom. The category indio was largely constructed during these lawsuits, and van Deusen emphasizes the need to situate colonial indigenous subjects and slavery in a global context. Trade Review"Weaving names and fragments of lives into a richly textured narrative, Van Deusen does justice to their stories, placing the reader in the heart of the empire, facing its darkest moment." -- Kathryn Lehman * AlterNative *"Van Deusen concentrates her attention on the microcosm of a village society in the area of Seville and on the part played in it by indios imported from America, but she also gives consideration to the indio menials of the New World and to the Asian context from which some slaves were drawn. The evidence throws light mainly on the southern part of Castile, but the book’s perspective is global, sophisticated, admirable, and pathbreaking." -- Henry Kamen * Common Knowledge *"Nancy van Deusen has written a masterpiece of early modern ethnohistory that brings to light a veritable diaspora of indigenous slaves in Spain, while expanding the meaning of indio as a global and changing identifier constructed outside the colonial confines of America." -- Alcira Dueñas * Hispanic American Historical Review *"I consider van Deusen’s work to be highly relevant for legal historians interested in interdisciplinary approaches, for example, by taking a bottom-up perspective, or for cultural and social historians who are interested in understanding past legal orders. Needless to say, her work makes a substantial contribution to the historiography about the Spanish and Portuguese empires in a global perspective, and about the indigenous people placed under its authority." -- Karla Luzmer Escobar Hernández * H-Law, H-Net Reviews *[T]hese chapters paint an elegant canvas, carefully foregrounding the meticulousness of [van Deusen's] records against a well-rendered background of imperial structure and ideology." -- Brian P. Owensby * Ethnohistory *"This meticulously researched and thoughtfully argued volume provides an accomplished historian’s analysis of the implications of enslaved American indigenous peoples, or indios, efforts in Spain to obtain or regain their freedom through the judicial system. . . . Solidly based on archival research and a rich secondary literature, this book offers a fascinating perspective on the Spanish monarchy’s evolving policy toward its indios in the 16th century, as well as the varied understanding of what indio meant in an interconnected globe. Essential. Most college and university libraries." -- M. A. Burkholder * Choice *"Global Indios will prompt historians and scholars in other fields to rethink crucial themes around the beginnings of Spanish colonialism and beyond in a new light: the meaning of indio, the complex form in which many social relations were created and cemented, the shaping of ideas about race, the idea of justice as a universal value, and how pertinent it is to think of the concept of global history at this early stage. This book is indeed a major contribution to the historiography on colonialism." -- Gabriela Ramos * Journal of Latin American Studies *"[V]an Deusen’s book is especially timely. As we struggle through a period of heightened scrutiny on migration and personhood, it is helpful to look back on similar episodes from the past to see how we might act differently. Van Deusen’s work, then, not only provides fascinating insights into a turbulent and formative period in Western history, but provides a lens through which we can critically consider our current situation as well." -- Stanton Kidd * AmeriQuests *"Global Indios is an erudite and well-researched book that offers a great contribution to the study of indigenous slavery in early modern Spain, the Spanish legal system, and the development of imperial identities." -- Yanay Israeli * Journal of Early Modern History *“An historian’s historian, van Deusen makes broad connections and speaks to a range of historiographical questions, making Global Indios a must read for anyone interested in the Early Modern World.” -- Heather R. Peterson * Journal of World History *“Van Deusen’s book is a stellar and stimulating piece of important world-historical research. . . . This book is an essential point of reference for all serious investigations into the importance of ‘Indianness’ as an early modern construct with world-historical consequences.” -- Fabio López Lázaro * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *Table of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1. All the World in a Village: Carmona 34 2. Crossing the Atlantic and Entering Households 64 3. Small Victories? Gregorio López and the Reforms of the 1540s 99 4. Into the Courtroom 125 5. Narratives of Territorial Belonging, Just War, and Ransom 147 6. Identifying Indios 169 7. Transimperial Indios 192 Conclusions 219 Notes 231 Bibliography 289 Index 319

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Book SynopsisDrawing from ethnographic fieldwork and postcolonial theory, Sarah A. Radcliffe centers the experiences of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to show how the efforts of development agencies to reduce social and economic equality fail because they do not reckon with the legacies of colonialism.Trade Review"Radcliffe’s book, well grounded in theory and research, is an important read for scholars of Latin American development and gender. Highly recommended." -- E. E. O'Connor * Choice *"Sarah Radcliffe's recent book offers a rich ethnography of indigenous women in Ecuador which specifically addresses how they encounter and experience development interventions." -- Jessica Hope * Journal of Development Studies *"Dilemmas of Difference represents a timely contribution to the critical literature on indigenous women and development and to the debate of neoliberal instrumentalization of difference.... Overall, with a genealogy of development frameworks contrasted with indigenous women’s experience, Radcliffe demonstrates the persistence of postcolonial stereotypes and colonial assumptions of social difference that produce indigenous women’s dissatisfaction with development." -- María Moreno * American Anthropologist *"Radcliffe’s book represents a powerful contribution to critical development studies and the discipline of geography." -- Emily Billo * Journal of Latin American Geography *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Development and Social Heterogeneity 1 1. Postcolonial Intersectionality and the Colonial Present 37 2. The Daily Grind: Ethnic Topographies of Labor, Racism, and Abandonment 75 Interlude I 121 3. Crumbs from the Table: Participation, Organization, and Indigenous Women 125 4. Politics, Statistics, and Affect: "Indigenous Women in Development" Policy 157 Interlude II 189 5. Women, Biopolitics, and Interculturalism: Ethnic Politics and Gendered Contradictions 193 6. From Development to Citizenship: Rights, Voice, and Citizenship Practices 225 7. Postcolonial Heterogeneity: Sumak Kawsay and Decolonizing Social Difference 257 Notes 291 Glossary 295 Bibliography 329 Index 359

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Book SynopsisIn Indian Given María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo provides a sweeping historical and comparative analysis of racial ideologies in Mexico and the United States from 1550 to the present to show how indigenous peoples provided the condition of possibility for the emergence of each nation.Trade Review"Saldana-Portillo’s monograph makes critical contributions to the fields of indigenous studies, borderlands studies, American studies, Mexican studies, Chicano/a studies, gender studies, transnational studies, western legal studies, and Southwest studies—just to name a few. Indian Given truly has the potential to help set the agenda in multiple disciplines." -- John Gram * H-Net Reviews *"An eclectic, informative, and entertaining work. . . . Saldaña-Portillo’s work will certainly be an eye-opener for anyone who picks it up." -- F. Todd Smith * American Historical Review *“Indian Given will be of great interest to scholars and university students who explore issues of Indigeneity in Mexico and the United States. Its interdisciplinary inquiry makes an important contribution to the field of Indigenous studies.” -- Emilio del Valle Escalante * Native American and Indigenous Studies *"Saldaña-Portillo illuminates the racial process in which indigenous people have been central to the continuous colonial and national space-making projects of Mexico and the United States." -- Jorge Ramirez * Radical History Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. It Remains to Be Seen: Indians in the Landscape of America 1 1. Savages Welcomed: Imputations of Indigenous Humanity in Early Colonialisms 33 2. Affect in the Archive: Apostates, Profligates, Petty Thieves, and the Indians of the Spanish and U.S. Borderlands 66 3. Mapping Economies of Death: From Mexican Independence to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 108 4. Adjudicating Exception: The Fate of the Indio Bárbaro in the U.S. Courts (1869–1954) 154 5. Losing It! Melancholic Incorporations in Aztlán 195 Conclusion. The Afterlives of the Indio Bárbaro 233 Notes 259 Bibliography 299 Index 319

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Book SynopsisDrawing from ethnographic fieldwork and postcolonial theory, Sarah A. Radcliffe centers the experiences of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to show how the efforts of development agencies to reduce social and economic equality fail because they do not reckon with the legacies of colonialism.Trade Review"Radcliffe’s book, well grounded in theory and research, is an important read for scholars of Latin American development and gender. Highly recommended." -- E. E. O'Connor * Choice *"Sarah Radcliffe's recent book offers a rich ethnography of indigenous women in Ecuador which specifically addresses how they encounter and experience development interventions." -- Jessica Hope * Journal of Development Studies *"Dilemmas of Difference represents a timely contribution to the critical literature on indigenous women and development and to the debate of neoliberal instrumentalization of difference.... Overall, with a genealogy of development frameworks contrasted with indigenous women’s experience, Radcliffe demonstrates the persistence of postcolonial stereotypes and colonial assumptions of social difference that produce indigenous women’s dissatisfaction with development." -- María Moreno * American Anthropologist *"Radcliffe’s book represents a powerful contribution to critical development studies and the discipline of geography." -- Emily Billo * Journal of Latin American Geography *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Development and Social Heterogeneity 1 1. Postcolonial Intersectionality and the Colonial Present 37 2. The Daily Grind: Ethnic Topographies of Labor, Racism, and Abandonment 75 Interlude I 121 3. Crumbs from the Table: Participation, Organization, and Indigenous Women 125 4. Politics, Statistics, and Affect: "Indigenous Women in Development" Policy 157 Interlude II 189 5. Women, Biopolitics, and Interculturalism: Ethnic Politics and Gendered Contradictions 193 6. From Development to Citizenship: Rights, Voice, and Citizenship Practices 225 7. Postcolonial Heterogeneity: Sumak Kawsay and Decolonizing Social Difference 257 Notes 291 Glossary 295 Bibliography 329 Index 359

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Book SynopsisIn Indian Given María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo provides a sweeping historical and comparative analysis of racial ideologies in Mexico and the United States from 1550 to the present to show how indigenous peoples provided the condition of possibility for the emergence of each nation.Trade Review"Saldana-Portillo’s monograph makes critical contributions to the fields of indigenous studies, borderlands studies, American studies, Mexican studies, Chicano/a studies, gender studies, transnational studies, western legal studies, and Southwest studies—just to name a few. Indian Given truly has the potential to help set the agenda in multiple disciplines." -- John Gram * H-Net Reviews *"An eclectic, informative, and entertaining work. . . . Saldaña-Portillo’s work will certainly be an eye-opener for anyone who picks it up." -- F. Todd Smith * American Historical Review *“Indian Given will be of great interest to scholars and university students who explore issues of Indigeneity in Mexico and the United States. Its interdisciplinary inquiry makes an important contribution to the field of Indigenous studies.” -- Emilio del Valle Escalante * Native American and Indigenous Studies *"Saldaña-Portillo illuminates the racial process in which indigenous people have been central to the continuous colonial and national space-making projects of Mexico and the United States." -- Jorge Ramirez * Radical History Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. It Remains to Be Seen: Indians in the Landscape of America 1 1. Savages Welcomed: Imputations of Indigenous Humanity in Early Colonialisms 33 2. Affect in the Archive: Apostates, Profligates, Petty Thieves, and the Indians of the Spanish and U.S. Borderlands 66 3. Mapping Economies of Death: From Mexican Independence to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 108 4. Adjudicating Exception: The Fate of the Indio Bárbaro in the U.S. Courts (1869–1954) 154 5. Losing It! Melancholic Incorporations in Aztlán 195 Conclusion. The Afterlives of the Indio Bárbaro 233 Notes 259 Bibliography 299 Index 319

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Book SynopsisIn this revolutionary text, Native American scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the disturbing connections between white settler colonialism, genocide, and violence against Native American women and children.Trade Review"A must-read for everyone concerned about Native people and our Native world." -- Haunani-Kay Trask, author of From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i "Conquest is the book Aboriginal women have been waiting for. Andrea Smith has not only meticulously researched the place of rape and violence against Indigenous women in the colonial process, but she is the first to fully articulate the connections between violence against the earth, violence against women, and North America's terrible inclination toward war." -- Lee Maracle, author of I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism "Andrea Smith has no fear. She challenges conventional activist thinking about global and local, sexism and racism, genocide and imperialism. But what's more, in every chapter she tries to answer the key question: What is to be done? Conquest is unsettling, ambitious, brilliant, disturbing: read it, debate it, use it." -- Ruth Wilson Gilmore, The Graduate Center, City University of New York "Andrea Smith brilliantly weaves together feminist explanations of violence against Native women, the historical data regarding colonialism and genocide, and a strong critique of the current responses to the gender violence against women of color ... Conquest is one of the most significant contributions to the literature in Native Studies, feminist theory, and social movement theory in recent years." -- Beth E. Richie, author of Compelled to Crime: The Gender Entrapment of Battered Black Women "Whether it is our reliance on the criminal justice system to protect women from violence or the legitimacy of the U.S. as a colonial nation-state, Andrea Smith's incisive and courageous analysis cuts through many of our accepted truths and reveals a new way of knowing rooted in Native women's histories of struggle. More than a call for action, this book provides sophisticated strategies and practical examples of organizing that simultaneously take on state and interpersonal violence. Conquest is a must-read not only for those concerned with violence against women and Native sovereignty, but also for antiracist, reproductive rights, environmental justice, antiprison, immigrant rights, and antiwar activists." -- Julia Sudbury editor of Global Lockdown: Race Gender and the Prison-Industrial Complex "Give thanks for the very great honor of listening to Andrea Smith. This book will burn a hole right through your mind with its accurate analysis and the concise compilation of information that makes it the first of its kind. Conquest is not only instructive, it is healing. I want every Indian I know to read it." -- Chrystos, artist, poet, and activist "Conquest radically rethinks the historical scope and dimensionality of 'sexual violence,' a historical vector of bodily domination that is too often reduced to universalizing-hence racist-narratives of gendered oppression and resistance. Offering a breathtaking genealogy of white supremacist genocide and colonization in North America, this book provides a theoretical model that speaks urgently to a broad continuum of political and intellectual traditions. In this incisive and stunningly comprehensive work, we learn how the proliferation of sexual violence as a normalized feature of modern Euro-American patriarchies is inseparable from violence against Indigenous women, and women of color. In Conquest, Andrea Smith has presented us with an epochal challenge, one that should productively disrupt and perhaps transform our visions of liberation and radical freedom." -- Dylan Rodriguez, University of California, Riverside "Conquest is not for those who flinch from an honest examination of white supremacist history, or who shy away from today's controversies in the reproductive health and anti-violence movements. This book is a tough, thoughtful, and passionate analysis of the colonization of America and the resistance of Indigenous women. Andrea Smith is one of this country's premiere intellectuals and a good old-fashioned organizer-a rare combination that illuminates her praxis and gift to social justice movement building in the 21st century." -- Loretta Ross coauthor of Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive JusticeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Foreword / Winona LaDuke ix Introduction 1 1. Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide 7 2. Boarding School Abuses and the Case for Reparations 35 3. Rape of the Land 55 4. "Better Dead than Pregnant": The Colonization of Native Womens' Reproductive Health 79 5. "Natural Laboratories": Medical Experimentation in Native Communities 109 6. Spiritual Appropriations as Sexual Violence 119 7. Anticolonial Responses to Gender Violence 137 8. U.S. Empire and the War Against Native Sovereignty 177 Endnotes 193 Resource Guide 223 Index 231

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Book SynopsisMark Rifkin explores how Indigenous experiences with time and the dominance of settler colonial conceptions of temporality have affected Native peoplehood and sovereignty, thereby rethinking the very terms by which history is created and organized around time by.Trade Review"Rifkin offers the compelling argument that challenging normative settler time engenders new possibilities for Native articulations of futurity." -- Stephanie Lumsden * Studies in American Indian Literatures *"Rifkin’s book presents a novel and ambitious perspective in analysing the process of land dispossession and forced assimilation of Native Americans during the consolidation of the U.S. national state in the nineteenth century and its afterlife." -- Carolina Aguilera * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"A theoretically robust and intellectually satisfying work that challenges readers to think differently not only about the past, but also about time. . . . A welcome addition to the robust body of interdisciplinary writing that has become renowned for its thick descriptions of space and place. . . . Rifkin’s approach is innovative, his analysis is theoretically sophisticated, the scaffolding upon which his analysis hangs is inspiring, and the vocabulary he advances is both useful and empowering." -- Kieth Thor Carlson * American Historical Review *"A quite brilliant work of theory. . . ." -- James Mackay * American Literary History *"Rifkin’s work moves us toward a more expansive understanding of the ways in which collective memory, ceremonial practices, prophesy, oral traditions, and place- based knowledges inform Indigenous corpo-realities and shape quotidian experiences of synchronously felt pasts, presents, and futures. This text is a critical addition to Native American studies and should be read by all striving for a decolonial future." -- Sarah Whitt * American Indian Quarterly *"It is impossible in a brief review to do justice to the full richness of Beyond Settler Time. Rifkin is meticulous in positioning his own work in relation to other scholarship, and while at times this forces the reader to work through the extant discourse surrounding a particular novel or text to get at the new interpretive kernel, that work is always rewarding. . . . Beyond Settler Time is a valuable contribution to the field of indigenous studies." -- David J. Carlson * Journal of American Studies *"Beyond Settler Time provides a necessary and important intervention in theorizations of time in Native American literature and history. Rifkin presents a set of analytic tools that scholars can employ when engaging Indigenous texts with temporal formations, shedding light upon crucial differences in Native American conceptions of time, place, and becoming." -- Penelope Kelsey * Western American Literature *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xv 1. Indigenous Orientations 1 2. The Silence of Ely S. Parker 49 3. The Duration of the Land 95 4. Ghost Dancing at Century's End 129 Coda. Deferring Juridical Time 179 Notes 193 Bibliography 241 Index 269

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Book SynopsisUsing a range of historical, literary, and legal texts, the contributors to Critically Sovereign trace the ways in which gender is inextricably linked to Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian colonialism, showing how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and epistemology.Trade Review“Critically Sovereign is not only a necessary reading for those studying Indigenous politics, it should also be considered a required reading for scholars and activists who study race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and colonialism.” -- Brionca Taylor * Gender & Society *"Through a collective of brilliant voices, the essays in this book grapple with the significance of gender, sexuality, and politics with searing wisdom. Critically Sovereign gives readers a reason to hope for a decolonized tomorrow." -- Dianca Potts * Signature *"A powerful and urgently needed anthology. . . . Critically Sovereign is an essential text for anyone engaged in feminist and queer theory or projects of decolonization." -- Stephanie Lumsden * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *"Critically Sovereign offers a strong addition to scholarship or graduate-level coursework engaged with global feminisms. . . . Critically Sovereign provides a timely entry point into the seismic stakes and shifts within Native American and Indigenous studies." -- Kirisitina Sailiata * Feminist Review *"This collection rejects the elimination of the Indigenous through the erasure of gender and sexuality. For the queer, femme, and two-spirit people at the center of Indigenous movements for autonomy and freedom, this is a deeply important project. Critically Sovereign is an opening salvo in what I hope is a burgeoning intellectual and intersectional field." -- Anne Spice * Women's Studies Quarterly *"For those of us seeking to grow our equity work in educational settings, reading essays like those in this collection allow us to privilege-check our own approaches. The denseness of the material aside, each piece acts as a motivator for equity work and as a reminder that this work cannot be done in a vacuum, and can never be complete without an understanding of intersectionality." -- Tracey Germa * Education Forum *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Critically Sovereign / Joanne Barker 1 1. Indigenous Hawaiian Sexuality and the Politics of Nationalist Decolonization / J. Kehaulani Kauanui 45 2. Return to "The Uprising at Beautiful Mountain in 1913": Marriage and Sexuality in the Making of the Modern Navajo Nation / Jennifer Nez Denetdale 69 3. Ongoing Storms and Struggles: Gendered Violence and Resource Exploitation / Mishuana R. Goeman 99 4. Audiovisualizing Inupiaq Men and Masculinities On the Ice / Jessica Bissett Perrea 127 5. Around 1978: Family, Culture, and Race in the Federal Production of Indianness / Mark Rifkin 169 6. Loving Unbecoming: The Queer Politics of the Transitive Native / Jodi A. Byrd 207 7. Getting Dirty: The Eco-Eroticism of Women in Indigenous Oral Literatures / Melissa K. Nelson 229 Contributor Biographies 261 Index 263

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