Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity Books

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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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Kauanui’s study constitutes a significant addition to the existing anthropological and historical scholarship that engages with events taking place in the nineteenth century in the islands, and scholarship linked to the contepmorary sovereignty movement, complementing the existing scholarship in a nuanced and commanding way. There is no doubt that this study will be of interest to scholars in the field, and its varied insights will constitute an enduring gift to the decolonization movement and its undertaking, both in the islands and more broadly amongst Indigenous communities worldwide." -- Naomi Alisa Calnitsky * Anthropology Book Forum *"Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty is yet another highly significant and extremely well-researched and theoretically contextualized contribution to the rapidly growing body of literature by native Hawaiian scholars on their history, culture, and political struggles." -- Jonathan Y. Okamura * Journal of American History *"[Kauanu] is to be commended for her diligence in both scholarship and activism. The book is a fine example of scholarship demonstrating the intersectionality of nationality, ethnicity, and gender in a meaningful and robust manner." -- David Fazzino * Pacific Affairs *"In this deeply engaging book, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui unpacks paradoxes inherent in past and contemporary assertions of Hawaiian sovereignty. . . . While Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty is set in Hawai‘i, it will prove useful for anyone interested in the global politics of Indigeneity and settler colonialism—in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Japan, the Pacific Islands, and Israel/Palestine." -- Tomonori Sugimoto * PoLAR *"An ambitious and provocative work of decolonial scholarship." -- Joshua Bartlett * American Indian Quarterly *“Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty is a much-needed, incisive, yet eas­ily accessible addition to conversations in academia and activism alike. Kauanui’s work calls on Kanaka ‘Ōiwi to face the settler-colonial complexi­ties and paradoxes embedded within our histories and our current political movements while also providing us with guidance toward reimagined futu­rities that are truly decolonized and free from the heteropatriarchal settler-colonial structures and mindsets.” -- Natalee Kehaulani Bauer * Native American and Indigenous Studies *"Kauanui draws on feminist and queer theory, and Foucault’s notions of biopolitics and biopower, to provide a fine-grained masterpiece problematizing state-centric notions of sovereignty." -- Michelle Nayahamui Rooney * Journal of Pacific History *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Contradictory Sovereignty 1 1. Contested Indigeneity: Between Kingdom and "Tribe" 43 2. Properties of Land: That Which Feeds 76 3. Gender, Marriage, and Coverture: A New Proprietary Relationship 113 4. "Savage: Sexualities 153 Conclusion. Decolonial Challenges to the Legacies of Occupation and Settler Colonialism 194 Notes 203 Glossary of Hawaiian Words and Phrases 235 Bibliography 237 Index 263

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Kauanui’s study constitutes a significant addition to the existing anthropological and historical scholarship that engages with events taking place in the nineteenth century in the islands, and scholarship linked to the contepmorary sovereignty movement, complementing the existing scholarship in a nuanced and commanding way. There is no doubt that this study will be of interest to scholars in the field, and its varied insights will constitute an enduring gift to the decolonization movement and its undertaking, both in the islands and more broadly amongst Indigenous communities worldwide." -- Naomi Alisa Calnitsky * Anthropology Book Forum *"Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty is yet another highly significant and extremely well-researched and theoretically contextualized contribution to the rapidly growing body of literature by native Hawaiian scholars on their history, culture, and political struggles." -- Jonathan Y. Okamura * Journal of American History *"[Kauanu] is to be commended for her diligence in both scholarship and activism. The book is a fine example of scholarship demonstrating the intersectionality of nationality, ethnicity, and gender in a meaningful and robust manner." -- David Fazzino * Pacific Affairs *"In this deeply engaging book, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui unpacks paradoxes inherent in past and contemporary assertions of Hawaiian sovereignty. . . . While Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty is set in Hawai‘i, it will prove useful for anyone interested in the global politics of Indigeneity and settler colonialism—in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Japan, the Pacific Islands, and Israel/Palestine." -- Tomonori Sugimoto * PoLAR *"An ambitious and provocative work of decolonial scholarship." -- Joshua Bartlett * American Indian Quarterly *“Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty is a much-needed, incisive, yet eas­ily accessible addition to conversations in academia and activism alike. Kauanui’s work calls on Kanaka ‘Ōiwi to face the settler-colonial complexi­ties and paradoxes embedded within our histories and our current political movements while also providing us with guidance toward reimagined futu­rities that are truly decolonized and free from the heteropatriarchal settler-colonial structures and mindsets.” -- Natalee Kehaulani Bauer * Native American and Indigenous Studies *"Kauanui draws on feminist and queer theory, and Foucault’s notions of biopolitics and biopower, to provide a fine-grained masterpiece problematizing state-centric notions of sovereignty." -- Michelle Nayahamui Rooney * Journal of Pacific History *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Contradictory Sovereignty 1 1. Contested Indigeneity: Between Kingdom and "Tribe" 43 2. Properties of Land: That Which Feeds 76 3. Gender, Marriage, and Coverture: A New Proprietary Relationship 113 4. "Savage: Sexualities 153 Conclusion. Decolonial Challenges to the Legacies of Occupation and Settler Colonialism 194 Notes 203 Glossary of Hawaiian Words and Phrases 235 Bibliography 237 Index 263

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Book SynopsisBrenna Bhandar examines how the emergence of modern property law contributed to the formation of racial subjects in settler colonies, showing how the colonial appropriation of indigenous lands depends upon ideologies of European racial superiority as well as legal narratives that equated civilized life with English concepts of property.Trade Review"I am obsessed with the force and eloquence with which [Bhandar] analyzes the birth of private property and its ongoing devastating effects. This book is going to be precious to me and many other people, too." -- Jordy Rosenberg * Shelf Awareness *"A multidisciplinary and highly original historical account of the legal and philosophical justifications for appropriation and private ownership in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." -- Liz Fekete * Race & Class *"Bhandar's important and nuanced book is highly recommended to those with an interest in property theory." -- Ambreena Manji * Journal of Law and Society *"Through close reading of the work of property philosophers as they travel between settler colonial spaces, Bhandar sheds light on where and how the most corrosive ideologies of property reside in the interstitial spaces of everyday culture." -- Anjali Vats * Quarterly Journal of Speech *"Colonial Lives of Property is a deft and nuanced analysis of the various ways that property—as both a concept and a set of practices—has been formative to the production and maintenance of categories of racial governance in late modern and contemporary settler colonial societies. It makes significant contributions to social, political, and legal theory, as well as to Indigenous and settler colonial studies and is a necessary text for those with active research agendas or pedagogical interests in those fields. . . . Colonial Lives of Property offers an impressive, sweeping critical analysis of the property-race nexus in settler colonial contexts." -- Robert Nichols * Theory & Event *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Property, Law, and Race in the Colony 1 1. Use 33 2. Propertied Abstractions 77 3. Improvement 115 4. Status 149 Conclusion: Life beyond the Boundary 181 Notes 201 Bibliography 239 Index 257

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the tumultuous history of state making in mid-nineteenth- century North America from a continental perspective. Essays by experts on Canadian Confederation, the U.S. Civil War, Mexico’s fight against French imperialists, and indigenous Americans shed new light on events traditionally studied as separate national stories.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Sovereignty and the Nation-State in Nineteenth-Century North America Frank Towers | 1 Part I: Making Nations 1 The United States from the Inside Out and the Southside North Steven Hahn | 25 2 Confederation as a Hemispheric Anomaly: Why Canada Chose a Unique Model of Sovereignty in the 1860s Andrew Smith | 36 3 Civil War and Nation Building in North America, 1848–1867 Pablo Mijangos y González | 61 4 1860s Capitalscapes, Governing Interiors, and the Illustration of North American Sovereignty Robert Bonner | 90 Part II: Indigenous Polities 5 The Long War: Sustaining Indigenous Communities and Contesting Sovereignties in the Civil War South Jane Dinwoodie | 107 6 Negotiating Sovereignty: U.S. and Canadian Colonialisms on the Northwest Plains, 1855–1877 Ryan Hall | 132 7 Indian Raids in Northern Mexico and the Construction of Mexican Sovereignty Marcela Terrazas y Basante | 153 Part III: The Complications of the Market 8 State, Market, and Popular Sovereignty in Agrarian North America: Th e United States, 1850–1920 Christopher Clark | 177 9 Reconstructing North America: The Borderlands of Juan Cortina and Louis Riel in an Age of National Consolidation Benjamin H. Johnson | 200 10 City Sovereignty in the Era of the American Civil War Mary P. Ryan | 220 Conclusion: Continental History and the Problem of Time and Place Frank Towers | 251 Acknowledgments | 261 List of Contributors | 263 Index | 265

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Book SynopsisA highly personal journey to reveal the hidden magic of the mask of the remarkable Bolon maskers and mask-makers in a remote corner of Burkina Faso, West Africa

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Book SynopsisIn addition to revisions and updates, the second edition of We Are Still Here features new material, seeing this well-loved American History Series volume maintain its treatment of American Indians in the 20th century while extending its coverage into the opening decades of the 21st century. Provides student and general readers concise and engaging coverage of contemporary history of American Indians contributed by top scholars and instructors in the field Represents an ideal supplement to any U.S. or Native American survey text Includes a completely up-to-date synthesis of the most current literature in the field Features a comprehensive Bibliographical Essay that serves to aid student research and writing Covers American Indian history from 1890 through 2013 Table of ContentsAcknowledgments for the Second Edition x Introduction 1 1 “We Indians Will Be Indians All Our Lives,” 1890–1920 10 Disappearing Peoples? 13 Education 19 Religions 28 Land 32 Identities 39 World War I 53 2 Confronting Continuation, 1921–1932 57 Failed Policies 58 Collier and the Pueblo Indians 62 Rights, Opportunities, and Identity 66 Tourism and the Arts 69 Work, Community, and Government 74 Moving Toward Reform 78 3 Initiatives and Impositions, 1933–1940 83 Collier’s Perspective 84 Cultural Considerations 87 Education, Health Care, and Land Use 93 The Indian Reorganization Act 97 Alaska and Oklahoma 106 Land Bases and Recognition 107 4 The War, Termination, and the Start of Self-Determination, 1941–1961 112 World War II and Its Consequences 114 The NCAI, the ICC, and Legal Representation 124 The Termination Era 129 Dimensions of Termination 135 Urban Migration and Relocation 143 Toward Self-Determination 147 5 The Struggle for Sovereignty, 1962–1980 151 Restoration 154 Fishing Rights and the Growth of Activism 159 Lands and Recognition 168 Education and Economies 172 Rights and Restrictions 183 Writers, Musicians, and Artists 185 6 “We Are All Indians,” 1981–1999 190 Native Identity 191 New Voices, New Images 197 Museums and Repatriation 203 Gaming 206 Communities 213 Rights 216 Economies and Education 220 Here to Stay 223 7 “Much Work Remains to Be Done,” 2000–2013 227 The Museum on the National Mall 229 The Cobell Settlement 231 Evolving Relations 234 Indigenous and International 239 Community Well-Being 243 Education and Revitalization 248 Economies 254 Gaming 259 Recognition 265 Appendix: American Indian Communities 269 Bibliographical Essay 288 Index 311

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Book SynopsisThe fully updated third edition of Farewell, My Nation considers the complex and often tragic relationships between American Indians, white Americans, and the U.S. government during the nineteenth century, as the government tried to find ways to deal with social and political questions about how to treat America's indigenous population. Updated to include new scholarship that has appeared since the publication of the second edition as well as additional primary source material Examines the cultural and material impact of Western expansion on the indigenous peoples of the United States, guiding the reader through the significant changes in Indian-U.S. policy over the course of the nineteenth century Outlines the efficacy and outcomes of the three principal policies toward American Indians undertaken in varying degrees by the U.S. government Separation, Concentration, and Americanization and interrogates their repercussions Provides detailed dTable of Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xi 1 The “Indian Question” 1 In Need of a Solution 1 Breaching the Ohio Country Barrier 7 The Shooting Star and the Prophet 18 2 The Initial Solution 35 The Relocation Debate 35 Tribal Strategies in the South 40 The Cherokee–Georgia Conundrum 46 Removing the Southern Tribes 52 The Indian Territory and Its People 65 Undermining Forces 74 Dashed Hopes 81 3 The Travails of Mid Century 89 Western Troubles and the New Solution 89 Making Way for the Railroads 98 The Texas Challenge 102 Whether or Not to Be a Confederate 108 Civil War in the Indian Territory 117 Unrest in Minnesota 127 Colorado and Sand Creek 137 4 The Plains Wars, Phase I: Realizing Concentration 151 Those Who Resisted: An Inescapable Fate? 153 Indian Policy and Who Controlled It 159 Defending the Powder River Country 166 Dualism: Peace and Force Policies 176 Commotion in Kansas 180 Implementing Concentration 187 With the Olive Branch and the Sword 195 5 The Plains Wars, Phase II: Enforcing Concentration 209 Again, Indian Affairs and Who Controls Them 210 The Grant Peace Policy 214 At the Watershed 221 The Red River War 228 The Peace That Slipped Away 236 The Great Sioux War Commences 246 The Great Sioux War Concludes 259 6 The Search for a New Order 269 Reforms and Jurisdictional Disputes 270 Reappraising the Concentration Policy 279 The Government’s Newest “Solution” 293 Ending “Old and Injurious Habits” 301 Americanization: White Rationalizations and Tribal Responses 306 Dead Dreams 314 Bibliographical Essay 326 Index 338

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Book SynopsisThe fully updated third edition of Farewell, My Nation considers the complex and often tragic relationships between American Indians, white Americans, and the U.S. government during the nineteenth century, as the government tried to find ways to deal with social and political questions about how to treat America's indigenous population. Updated to include new scholarship that has appeared since the publication of the second edition as well as additional primary source material Examines the cultural and material impact of Western expansion on the indigenous peoples of the United States, guiding the reader through the significant changes in Indian-U.S. policy over the course of the nineteenth century Outlines the efficacy and outcomes of the three principal policies toward American Indians undertaken in varying degrees by the U.S. government Separation, Concentration, and Americanization and interrogates their repercussions Provides detailed dTable of Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xi 1 The "Indian Question" 1 In Need of a Solution 1 Breaching the Ohio Country Barrier 7 The Shooting Star and the Prophet 18 2 The Initial Solution 35 The Relocation Debate 35 Tribal Strategies in the South 40 The Cherokee–Georgia Conundrum 46 Removing the Southern Tribes 52 The Indian Territory and Its People 65 Undermining Forces 74 Dashed Hopes 81 3 The Travails of Mid Century 89 Western Troubles and the New Solution 89 Making Way for the Railroads 98 The Texas Challenge 102 Whether or Not to Be a Confederate 108 Civil War in the Indian Territory 117 Unrest in Minnesota 127 Colorado and Sand Creek 137 4 The Plains Wars, Phase I: Realizing Concentration 151 Those Who Resisted: An Inescapable Fate? 153 Indian Policy and Who Controlled It 159 Defending the Powder River Country 166 Dualism: Peace and Force Policies 176 Commotion in Kansas 180 Implementing Concentration 187 With the Olive Branch and the Sword 195 5 The Plains Wars, Phase II: Enforcing Concentration 209 Again, Indian Affairs and Who Controls Them 210 The Grant Peace Policy 214 At the Watershed 221 The Red River War 228 The Peace That Slipped Away 236 The Great Sioux War Commences 246 The Great Sioux War Concludes 259 6 The Search for a New Order 269 Reforms and Jurisdictional Disputes 270 Reappraising the Concentration Policy 279 The Government's Newest "Solution" 293 Ending "Old and Injurious Habits" 301 Americanization: White Rationalizations and Tribal Responses 306 Dead Dreams 314 Bibliographical Essay 326 Index 338

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Book SynopsisContested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History is an engaging, contemporary look at the themes, events, and people that have shaped the history of the Pacific Northwest over the last two centuries. An engaging look at the themes, events, and people that shaped the Pacific Northwest Washington, Oregon, and Idaho from when only Native Peoples inhabited the land through the twentieth century. Twelve theme-driven essays covering the human and environmental impact of exploration, trade, settlement and industrialization in the nineteenth century, followed by economic calamity, world war and globalization in the twentieth. Written by two professors with over 20 years of teaching experience, this work introduces the history of the Pacific Northwest in a style that is accessible, relevant, and meaningful for anyone wishing to learn more about the region's recent history. A companion website for students and instructors includes test banks, PowerTrade Review"The authors use and point readers to Internet resources, including museum collections, which are essential to Northwest history today. The book's text and its many features highlight a more inclusive past than textbooks from previous generations [...] Drawing sometimes from local newspapers and occasionally from interviews brings voices of immediacy from the past to the reader." - Oregon Historical Quarterly (2017)"My community college students appreciate the storytelling [and] the brief topical narratives touching on the book’s thematic approach. My favorite aspect is the use of primary sources, all of which are footnoted, and the extensive bibliographies at the back of each chapter. The notes are not intrusive, and students come away with a keen sense of how historians think and write [...] Jepsen and Norberg have given us an interesting way to conceptualize invisible borders, and it’s a theme that my students and I can dig into as we share and reflect on the multitude of narratives and competing viewpoints that continue to shape this region." - Anna Booker, Whatcom Community College (2019) Table of Contents List of Illustrations xi Authors’ Biographies xv Preface and acknowledgments xvii Introduction xix Part I Clash of Cultures 1 1 Early Encounters 3 Ships logs tell of a clash of cultures 5 British pursue “every branch” of Puget Sound 6 “Mean huts and wretched sheds” greet explorers 8 Understanding European misconceptions 9 Robert Gray braves entrance to Columbia River 10 Lewis and Clark arrive by land, 1804 to 1806 13 Meeting with Shoshone turns tense 15 Assessing the Corps of Discovery 20 The time of the people 22 Sacagawea: heroism in perspective 27 Explore more 30 Notes 30 2 Trade Among Equals 35 Slow beginning for fur trade 36 An “astronomical” tale 36 ‘Single-minded’ pursuit of otter skins 37 Traders establish permanent presence in interior 39 Hudson’s Bay Company takes charge 41 Aggressive tactics create “fur deserts” 42 British diversify beyond furs 44 HBC–Native relations – the ties that bind trade 46 From ‘bad to worse’ and the end of an era 50 Explore more 52 Notes 53 3 Making a Christian Farmer 59 In search of a holy life 60 Seeking the “book of heaven” 61 Promising start in God’s work 64 Protestants and Catholics compete for converts 66 A day of reckoning at Waiilatpu 74 Indian Removal Act of 1830 – a portent of trouble for Northwest natives 78 Beyond the written word – the drawings of Father Nicolas Point 79 Explore more 81 Notes 81 4 Building an American Northwest 87 Americans look West 87 Experiencing the Oregon Trail 89 Forging American institutions in Oregon 93 Taming a ‘wilderness’ 95 Nothing settled – Indian reservations and war 97 “Seeing the Elephant” – the Catherine Sager story 103 Mother Joseph – a Northwest builder 104 Federal boarding schools challenge cultural boundaries 106 Explore more 108 Notes 109 Important Dates and Events 115 Part II People and Place 117 5 Riding the Railroad Rollercoaster 119 Unlimited opportunity, limited markets 121 Frenzy of railroad construction 122 Big ideas from flawed men 124 Marketing the “wasteland” as a “friendly place” 125 Making and breaking cities 128 Extraction industry finally on wheels 131 Not all is rosy in rail town 133 Panic exposes poor management 135 James J. Hill: from empire builder to noxious weed 139 Cashing in on the Klondike Gold Rush 141 Explore more 143 Notes 143 6 Seeking Dignity in Labor 149 Making sense of the Progressive Era 151 Divided union struggles for power 152 At the mercy of predatory “job sharks” 153 A rough and tumble lumber business 155 Arrest and expulsion in Aberdeen 157 Running the gauntlet in Everett 158 A parade of violence in Centralia 160 Looking for answers in a violent past 163 The beginning of the end 165 R.D. Hume, “pygmy monopolist” on the economic frontier 169 Explore more 172 Notes 172 7 Dismantling a Racial Hierarchy 177 African Americans – seeking haven from racial oppression 179 Early industrialization and demand for substitute labor 181 Chinese – the travails of life on “gold mountain” 184 The Tacoma Method – organized vigilantism at gunpoint 186 Clashing with “mongoloid races” in Idaho’s goldfields 187 A century and a half of change 190 European immigration – overlooked stories of the American West 191 Doc Hay and generous medicine – a prescription for cultural acceptance 192 Explore more 194 Notes 194 8 Liberation in the West 197 Women serve as the moral authority 199 Working-class labor in farm yard and factory 200 Challenging long hours and low pay 204 The dual challenge – female and minority 205 Chinese build a presence in a strange land 207 The Irish – moving beyond the domestic 208 African Americans – finding confidence and self-worth 209 Winning the franchise 212 Answering the “why” question 216 Muller v. Oregon 218 Caroline Gleason – debunking the myths of women’s work 220 Explore more 222 Notes 222 Important Dates and Events 227 Part III Crisis and Opportunity 229 9 Beyond Breadlines 231 Returning to the not so “Roaring ‘20s” 232 Going from bad to worse 233 “Let’s call this place Hooverville” 234 Out with the old, and in with the New Deal 237 Putting Americans to work in the city 240 Did the government create a “nation of softies”? 243 Pointing towards a new era 244 Building the “Eighth Wonder of the World” 246 Explore more 249 Notes 249 10 Marching through Global Conflict 255 The winds of war sweep across the Pacific Northwest 256 Northwest industries rise to the challenge 257 A Critical shortage of workers breaks down barriers 262 Japanese Americans challenge new boundaries 266 From a World War to a Cold War 270 A changed Northwest? 272 Women for the defense 273 Maggie, Scoop, and the Federal Northwest 276 Explore more 278 Notes 279 11 El Movimiento: Chicanos Unite to Improve Economic Standing 287 A rights movement that inspires others 288 Braceros, a world war and a war on poverty 289 Federal government enters the war on poverty 292 California’s rising star shines on Yakima Valley 294 Workers fight the “slave bill” in Oregon 296 El Movimiento comes to campus 297 Changing how a university serves its minority communities 300 Radio KDNA links with itinerant audiences 302 Limited victories in Washington and Oregon 303 “Taking off the mask” 306 Movin’ on up…and outside the Central District 313 Explore more 316 Notes 316 12 The Fractured Northwest 321 A new Northwestern economy 322 The big business of outdoor recreation 324 A region divided by uneven growth 328 Politics from left to right 330 Environmental politics: resources vs. recreation 332 An uncertain future 335 From building to breaching dams 337 Standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge 339 Explore more 341 Notes 341 Important Dates and Events 348 Bibliography 349 Index 367

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Book SynopsisIn December 1997, in a small town in rural Australia, a fight broke out among local Aborigines that turned into a full-blown riot when police intervened in force. In Blackfellas, Whitefellas, and the Hidden Injuries of Race, anthropologist Gillian Cowlishaw uses this vivid incident as a means of launching a larger discussion about race, identity, and racialized violence. Brings indigenous Australians into the contemporary global race discourse in a lively, highly readable ethnography. Explores the local and national meanings of a race riot in Australia and the entrenched racial binary evident in everyday relationships. Raises questions about history, memory, citizenship, respect, and abjection as means of considering the politics, social science, and psychology of race rivalry and indigenous marginality. Written by a prominent scholar with clarity, verve, and accessibility both for beginners and those well-versed in contemporaryTrade Review Winner of the Gleebooks Prize for Critical Writing 2005, a New South Wales Premier's Literary Award "Would that we all perform our duties with the sophisticated balance of sensitivity, objectivity, and thoroughness that Cowlishaw shows in this work." Journal of Anthropological Research "[T]his finely observed qualitative study... poses questions that resonate far beyond the research site, exploring issues that will be of interest to specialists on settler societies as well as to students of ethnic and racial relations in general.... Blackfellas, Whitefellas is a powerful book... an elegant and compelling argument." Ethnic and Racial Studies "Everybody should read this book." The Australian Journal of Anthropology "This is an unusually important book for anyone concerned with understanding race relations in settler colonies--not only Australia, but also Canada and the United States. What can ‘multiculturalism’ mean when it comes to indigenous peoples and white majorities? A talented ethnographer and relentlessly critical thinker, Gillian Cowlishaw examines these matters with theoretical sophistication and compelling ethnographic description. She brilliantly helps the reader to understand how and why local people identify and act in racialized ways, and she demonstrates both the psychic gains and the personal injuries that inevitably inhere to race. Perhaps the greatest contribution of Cowlishaw’s book is the nuanced weaving together of a performative analysis of racial agency;…this is as much about the production of national white privilege as it is about local-level race-making. The reader---whether a racial minority or a member of a national racial majority---will inevitably see herself implicated in this penetrating description of race. This is the best kind of anthropology." Tom Biolsi, Portland State University "In this rich, highly readable ethnographic account, Gillian Cowlishaw seeks to reveal the ‘hidden injuries’ of race relations in a small rural town in north-western NSW. She eloquently develops her analysis around a particular social drama - a ‘riot’ that occurred in the main street in 1997, after police intervened in a fight among local Aboriginal people. ... Blackfellas, Whitefellas, and the Hidden Injuries of Race is a critically important study, and essential reading, not just for all anthropologists interested in Australia, but for anyone searching for a way to understand the everyday practices and performances of race and racism as well as the irruptions of full-blown racialized violence that become front-page news. Perhaps Cowlishaw’s most valuable contribution is the highly accessible way in which she articulates her discussion with the voices of Indigenous people." -Rosita Henry, James Cook University "Dense, well-argued, fascinating and insightful, the book offers fresh perspectives that seriously challenge contemporary understandings and accepted perceptions... Using the 'so-called' Bourke riots as a focus for a discussion of race and associated topics, Gillian Cowlishaw shows how powerfully a non-Indigenous author can address such circumstances... remarkable." Rural Society Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Maps. Prologue: Riotous Tales. 1. Introductions: The Signs of Social Life. 2. Stigma and Complaint. 3. Injury and Agency. 4. Performance. 5. Boundaries. 6. Violence. 7. Citizenship. 8. Our History. 9. Trials and Transformations. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn December 1997, in a small town in rural Australia, a fight broke out among local Aborigines that turned into a full-blown riot when police intervened in force. In Blackfellas, Whitefellas, and the Hidden Injuries of Race, anthropologist Gillian Cowlishaw uses this vivid incident as a means of launching a larger discussion about race, identity, and racialized violence. Brings indigenous Australians into the contemporary global race discourse in a lively, highly readable ethnography. Explores the local and national meanings of a race riot in Australia and the entrenched racial binary evident in everyday relationships. Raises questions about history, memory, citizenship, respect, and abjection as means of considering the politics, social science, and psychology of race rivalry and indigenous marginality. Written by a prominent scholar with clarity, verve, and accessibility both for beginners and those well-versed in contemporaryTrade Review Winner of the Gleebooks Prize for Critical Writing 2005, a New South Wales Premier's Literary Award "Would that we all perform our duties with the sophisticated balance of sensitivity, objectivity, and thoroughness that Cowlishaw shows in this work." Journal of Anthropological Research "[T]his finely observed qualitative study... poses questions that resonate far beyond the research site, exploring issues that will be of interest to specialists on settler societies as well as to students of ethnic and racial relations in general.... Blackfellas, Whitefellas is a powerful book... an elegant and compelling argument." Ethnic and Racial Studies "Everybody should read this book." The Australian Journal of Anthropology "This is an unusually important book for anyone concerned with understanding race relations in settler colonies--not only Australia, but also Canada and the United States. What can ‘multiculturalism’ mean when it comes to indigenous peoples and white majorities? A talented ethnographer and relentlessly critical thinker, Gillian Cowlishaw examines these matters with theoretical sophistication and compelling ethnographic description. She brilliantly helps the reader to understand how and why local people identify and act in racialized ways, and she demonstrates both the psychic gains and the personal injuries that inevitably inhere to race. Perhaps the greatest contribution of Cowlishaw’s book is the nuanced weaving together of a performative analysis of racial agency;…this is as much about the production of national white privilege as it is about local-level race-making. The reader---whether a racial minority or a member of a national racial majority---will inevitably see herself implicated in this penetrating description of race. This is the best kind of anthropology." Tom Biolsi, Portland State University "In this rich, highly readable ethnographic account, Gillian Cowlishaw seeks to reveal the ‘hidden injuries’ of race relations in a small rural town in north-western NSW. She eloquently develops her analysis around a particular social drama - a ‘riot’ that occurred in the main street in 1997, after police intervened in a fight among local Aboriginal people. ... Blackfellas, Whitefellas, and the Hidden Injuries of Race is a critically important study, and essential reading, not just for all anthropologists interested in Australia, but for anyone searching for a way to understand the everyday practices and performances of race and racism as well as the irruptions of full-blown racialized violence that become front-page news. Perhaps Cowlishaw’s most valuable contribution is the highly accessible way in which she articulates her discussion with the voices of Indigenous people." -Rosita Henry, James Cook University "Dense, well-argued, fascinating and insightful, the book offers fresh perspectives that seriously challenge contemporary understandings and accepted perceptions... Using the 'so-called' Bourke riots as a focus for a discussion of race and associated topics, Gillian Cowlishaw shows how powerfully a non-Indigenous author can address such circumstances... remarkable." Rural Society Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Maps. Prologue: Riotous Tales. 1. Introductions: The Signs of Social Life. 2. Stigma and Complaint. 3. Injury and Agency. 4. Performance. 5. Boundaries. 6. Violence. 7. Citizenship. 8. Our History. 9. Trials and Transformations. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisIncludes twenty-five original essays that bring a modern perspective to Native American histories that were at one time related exclusively by Euro-American settlers. This title covers the breadth of American Indian history, including contacts with settlers, religion, family, economy, law, education, gender issues, and culture.Trade Review"Philip Deloria and Neal Salisbury have brought together some of the best scholars writing about American Indian peoples and given them topics that both reflect and expand the new scholarship on Indian history and culture. The volume is a virtual compass for readers and scholars interested in American Indians." Richard White, Stanford University "If you need to know where the practice of American Indian history has been; better yet, if you need and want to catch up with where it's going, you will need A Companion to American Indian History. Each essay, in its own right, gives an important stylistic and substantive shove to the new writing of American Indian history while it offers the latest, best word in dutiful exegetical historiography. The Companion is the bridge-building, critical, enlightened, reflexive work the editors hoped for, and more, since its bridge-dynamiting challenges to Indian history are graceful and graciously delivered." Rayna Green, National Museum of American History. "Historians are exceedingly well served by this companion on Native peoples of the USA, north-western Mexico, Canada and Western Greenland." Antiquity "This volume testifies to the strength and comprehensiveness of the "Blackwell Companions to American History" series... The selection of writers and topics is excellent, and the quality of the historiographical essays matches or supersedes the spate of recently published books that have attempted similar tasks... The essays go beyond a mere listing of sources to intelligently integrate shifts in interpretation over time and to indicate weaknesses in the existing canon of knowledge. Academic researchers, general readers, and members of Native American communities can all profit from these sophisticated essays... this reference work deserves a place in all libraries, and it should be widely used to spaark further debate." Choice "I heartily endorse this anthology as a textbook for graduate and undergraduate classes, and as a refresher for anyone seriously interested in Native American studies." John H. Moore, Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsList of Contributors vii Introduction 1 1 Historiography 6 Philip J. Deloria Part One: Contacts 25 2 First Contacts 27 John E. Kicza 3 Wag the Imperial Dog: Indians and Overseas Empires in North America, 1650–1776 46 Gregory Evans Dowd 4 Health, Disease, and Demography 68 Russell Thornton Part Two: Native Practice and Belief 85 5 Native American Systems of Knowledge 87 Clara Sue Kidwell 6 Native American Spirituality: History, Theory, and Reformulation 103 Lee Irwin 7 Indians and Christianity 121 Willard Hughes Rollings 8 Kinship, Family Kindreds, and Community 139 Jay Miller 9 American Indian Warfare: The Cycles of Conflict and the Militarization of Native North America 154 Tom Holm Part Three: Language, Identity, and Expression 173 10 Languages: Linguistic Change and the Study of Indian Languages from Colonial Times to the Present 175 Regna Darnell 11 Performative Traditions in American Indian History 193 L. G. Moses 12 Indigenous Art: Creating Value and Sharing Beauty 209 Nancy Parezo 13 Native American Literatures 234 P. Jane Hafen 14 Wanted: More Histories of Indian Identity 248 Alexandra Harmon Part Four: Exchange and Social Relations 267 15 Labor and Exchange in American Indian History 269 Patricia Albers 16 The Nature of Conquest: Indians, Americans, and Environmental History 287 Louis S. Warren 17 Gender in Native America 307 Betty Bell 18 Métis, Mestizo, and Mixed-Blood 321 Jennifer Brown and Theresa Schenck 19 Transforming Outsiders: Captivity, Adoption, and Slavery Reconsidered 339 Pauline Turner Strong 20 Translation and Cultural Brokerage 357 Eric Hinderaker Part Five: Governmental Relations 377 21 Federal and State Policies and American Indians 379 Donald Fixico 22 Native Americans and the United States, Canada, and Mexico 397 R. David Edmunds 23 American Indian Education: by Indians versus for Indians 422 K. Tsianina Lomawaima 24 Indian Law, Sovereignty, and State Law: Native People and the Law 441 Sidney L. Harring 25 Sovereignty 460 Taiaiake Alfred Bibliography 475 Index 495

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Book SynopsisThis Reader from theUncovering the Past series provides a comprehensive introduction to American Indian history. Over 60 primary documents allow the voices of natives to illuminate the American past Includes samples of native languages just above the full translations of particular texts Provides comprehensive introductions and headnotes, as well as images, an extensive bibliography, and suggestions for further research Includes such texts as a decoded Maya inscription, letters written during the French and Indian War on the distribution of small pox blankets, and a diatribe by General George Armstrong Custer shortly before he was killed at the Battle of the Little Big Horn Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface viii Acknowledgments x Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Indian Ways 9 1 Maya Glyphs at Piedras Negras 9 2 Ancient Nahuatl Prayers from the Florentine Codex 12 3 Pueblo Bonito of Chaco Canyon 14 4 Images of Secotan 17 5 Two Versions of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Creation Story 21 Chapter 2 First Contact 27 1 Arrival of the Spaniards in the Annals of Tlatelolco 27 2 Response to the Spanish by Native Priests 29 3 Don Luis Travels the World 31 4 The Arrival of the Dutch at Manhattan in Native Memory 33 Chapter 3 The Expectations of the Strangers 39 1 Christopher Columbus’s Journal 39 2 Cabeza de Vaca’s Experiences in North America 41 3 Thomas Harriot’s Observations at Roanoke 43 4 John Smith’s Visit to Werowocomoco 44 5 Edward Waterhouse’s Report on the Events of 1622 46 Chapter 4 The Long Struggle for American Lands 50 1 A Jesuit’s Story of the 1639 Smallpox Epidemic 50 2 Gandeaktena’s Decision to Become a Christian 52 3 Metacom’s Grievances 55 4 Mary Rowlandson’s Narrative 57 5 The Declaration of a Rebellious Christian Indian in the Pueblo Revolt 61 Chapter 5 Eighteenth-Century Power Shifts 64 1 The Refusal of Some English Prisoners to Return to English Life 64 2 The Abenakis’ Forceful Statement to the English 68 3 The Chickasaws’ Political Vision in 1723 72 4 Sir Jeffery Amherst Suggests the Smallpox 76 5 The Chickasaws after the Revolution 81 6 George Washington’s Indian Policy 84 Chapter 6 What the New Nation Portended for Indians 89 1 Lewis and Clark in the Pacific Northwest 89 2 Russian Settlements in Alaska 91 3 Tecumseh’s Demands 94 4 The Cherokee Syllabary and Newspaper 99 5 The Cherokee Debate in Washington 102 6 Black Hawk’s Autobiography 112 7 William Apess’s Condemnation of White America 118 Chapter 7 The Losing of the West 122 1 Charles Ohiyesa Eastman’s Childhood Memories 122 2 Lone Dog’s Winter Count, 1800–1870 125 3 Sarah Winnemucca’s Choices 135 4 The Views of George Armstrong Custer 136 5 Black Elk’s Memories of the Battle of the Little Big Horn 138 6 Elaine Goodale’s Observations of the Ghost Dance 142 7 Charles Ohiyesa Eastman’s Visit to Wounded Knee 144 8 Geronimo’s Story of His Life 146 Chapter 8 Surviving Assimilation and the National Imagination 154 1 The 1887 Statement of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs 154 2 Francis La Flesche’s Memories of Boarding School 157 3 A Navajo Girl’s Letters Home from Boarding School 161 4 William Stoddard’s The Talking Leaves 164 5 The Arguments of The Quarterly Journal 166 Chapter 9 Mid-Twentieth-Century Changes 171 1 The Arts and Crafts Act of 1935 171 2 The Navajo Contribution to the War Effort 175 3 The Musings of an Iroquois High Steel Man 177 4 The Menominee Struggle against Termination 181 Chapter 10 The Upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s 184 1 The 1961 Declaration of Indian Purpose 184 2 The Alcatraz Proclamation 186 3 Vine Deloria’s Custer Died for Your Sins 189 4 The Thoughts of Mary Crow Dog 192 5 A Reporter’s Comments on the Deaths at Pine Ridge 195 Chapter 11 The End of the Twentieth Century: A New Era? 198 1 The Origins of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) 198 2 Growing Pan-Indian Activism and the Native Press 201 3 Louise Erdrich’s ‘‘Dear John Wayne’’ 205 4 President Clinton’s 1994 Conference with Native Leaders 207 5 Struggles over the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act 211 6 An Elder’s Stories for Future Generations 216 7 List of Federally Recognized Tribes Today 219 Selected Bibliography 233 Index 240

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Book SynopsisThe Aztecs brings to life one of the best-known indigenous civilizations of the Americas in a vivid, comprehensive account of the ancient Aztecs. A thorough examination of Aztec origins and civilization including religion, science, and thought Incorporates the latest archaeological excavations and research into explanations of the Spanish conquest and the continuity of Aztec culture in Central Mexico Expanded coverage includes key topics such as writing, music, royal tombs, and Aztec predictions of the end of the world Table of ContentsList of Figures x List of Tables xiv Preface xv Guide to Pronunciation and Spelling xviii 1 The Aztecs of Mesoamerica 1 Who Were the Aztecs? 3 Mesoamerican Context 5 The Aztec Environment 7 Sources of Information 12 Ethnohistory 13 Archaeology 20 Art History 27 Aztec Studies Today 28 2 The Rise of Aztec Civilization 30 Timetables 31 Pre-Aztec Civilizations 33 The Aztlan Migrations 36 Toltecs, Chichimecs, and Aztec Identity 39 The Growth of City-States: The Early Aztec Period 40 Tenochtitlan and Empire: The Late Aztec Period 46 3 People on the Landscape 60 How Many Aztecs? 61 The Aztec Diet 65 Farming Systems 69 Rural Settlement 77 The Rural Landscape 81 4 Artisans and their Wares 82 Utilitarian Crafts 82 Luxury Crafts 94 Otumba: An Aztec Craft Center 103 5 The Commercial Economy 108 Marketplaces 109 Money 116 Material Evidence for Aztec Commerce 119 A Complex Economy 124 6 Family and Social Class 127 Growing up Aztec 128 Adult Life and Social Roles 131 Social Classes 134 Commoners 135 Nobles and their Palaces 143 7 City-State and Empire 152 City-States 153 Relations Among City-States 159 The Empire of the Triple Alliance 163 Imperial Strategies and Control 165 Mexica Propaganda and the Limits of Empire 177 8 Cities and Urban Planning 179 City-State Capitals 180 Provincial Cities and Towns 184 Tenochtitlan 189 9 Creation, Death, and the Gods 197 Myths of Creation 198 Aztec Religion: Historical Background 201 The Gods 204 Death, Burial, and the Afterlife 211 10 Temples and Ceremonies 217 Priests 217 Human Blood Offerings 219 The Templo Mayor 225 Public Ceremonies 235 Private Rituals 239 11 Science, Writing, and Calendars 244 Writing 244 Calendars and Astronomy 249 Technology 259 Medicine 260 12 Art, Music, and Literature 263 Art 263 Literature and Poetry 271 Music and Dance 274 13 Final Glory, Conquest, and Legacy 278 The Final Century: 1428–1519 279 Conquest by Spain 282 The Nahuas under Spanish Rule 290 Continuity and Change 296 The Aztec Legacy: Modern Nahua Indian Culture 298 The Aztec Past and the Mexican Present 300 A Wider Perspective 303 Notes 305 Glossary of Nahuatl Terms 337 References 339 Index 385

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Book SynopsisIn this deeply researched and engagingly argued work, Jeffers Lennox reconfigures our general understanding of how Indigenous peoples, imperial forces, and settlers competed for space in northeastern North America before the British conquest in 1763.Trade Review‘This book is one of the best examinations of historical cartography ever written for the Northeast, and the 41 maps reproduced in the text provide a rich visual complement to Lennox’s carefully crafted arguments.’ -- Jason Hall * Acadiensis, November 2017 *‘Highly Recommended.’ -- B. Osborne * Choice Magazine, vol 55:06:2018 *"Jeffers Lennox’s monograph is certainly one that historians of the Atlantic World, of empire, and of indigenous North America will want to read carefully. It is an ambitious book that largely fulfills its mission to make us question cartography as an objective science even as the Enlightenment was beginning to blossom." -- Katherine Hermes, Central Connecticut State University * The New England Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Neighbours in the Homeland Chapter Two: Mapping the Spoils of Peace Chapter Three: A Time and a Place Chapter Four: A Pale on the Coast Chapter Five: Acadia in Paris Chapter Six: Map Wars and Surveyors of the Peace Conclusion

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Book SynopsisSerpent River Resurgence tells the story of how the Serpent River Anishinaabek confronted the persistent forces of settler colonialism and the effects of uranium mining at Elliot Lake, Ontario. Drawing on extensive archival sources, oral histories, and newspaper articles, Lianne C. Leddy examines the environmental and political power relationships that affected her homeland in the Cold War period.Focusing on Indigenous-settler relations, the environmental and health consequences of the uranium industry, and the importance of traditional uses of land and what happens when they are compromised, Serpent River Resurgence explores how settler colonialism and Anishinaabe resistance remained potent forces in Indigenous communities throughout the second half of the twentieth century.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Serpent River Anishinaabek before 1950 2. Carving a “Jewel in the Wilderness”: The Establishment of Elliot Lake 3. “It took all the trees”: The Cutler Acid Plant and Its Toxic Legacy 4. “We weren’t supposed to use that water at all!”: Uranium Mining and the Serpent River 5. “Oooh yes, we all went up to Elliot to protest”: Resilience and Resistance at Serpent River First Nation Conclusion Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThroughout the nineteenth and most of the twentieth century, the majority of Canadians argued that European civilization must replace Indigenous culture. The ultimate objective was assimilation into the dominant society. Seen but Not Seen explores the history of Indigenous marginalization and why non-Indigenous Canadians failed to recognize Indigenous societies and cultures as worthy of respect. Approaching the issue biographically, Donald B. Smith presents the commentaries of sixteen influential Canadians including John A. Macdonald, George Grant, and Emily Carr who spoke extensively on Indigenous subjects. Supported by documentary records spanning over nearly two centuries, Seen but Not Seen covers fresh ground in the history of settler-Indigenous relations.Trade Review"Seen but Not Seen is a meticulously-researched and beautifully written documentary of the great contradiction of our national life." -- Holly Doan * Blacklock's Reporter *"The book is excellent, balanced and illuminating. While it is factually very rich, as well as researched and referenced, it is very readable and accessible." -- Chris Stoate * Oakville News *"To see Indigenous peoples, we must also see ourselves. With this well-written, engrossing, and often sobering book, Smith helps us do some of that work, with all the responsibilities it implies." -- Elaine Coburn * Literary Review of Canada *"If more educators and politicians had historically approached this subject area with the same deference and respect, there may not have ever been a need for a century of periodic national commissions of inquiry into the sad state of relations between Canadians and First peoples." -- Maurice Switzer * Anishinabek News *"Seen But Not Seen is an eminent historian's portrait gallery: faces of the long century in which Canada was constituted, treaties made, the West settled, residential schools established, and Indigenous peoples shunted to the margins of public awareness." -- Roger Epp, University of Alberta * Alberta Views *"The culmination of Smith's illustrious career writing on Canadian history, Seen but Not Seen vivifies that history with lively biographies of the politicians who made Canadian Indian policies, First Nations activists, scholars, and supporters of Indian rights." -- A. B. Kehoe, Marquette University * CHOICE *"There is something here for everyone: specialists will find accounts of some ‘influencers’ who are little-known today, while readers new to the field will find a balanced telling of some important stories. At a time when emotions are running high and dubious claims are being made about Canadian history, Donald Smith is a voice of informed reason. Seen but Not Seen deserves to be widely read and deeply savoured." -- Kerry Abel, Carleton University * Prairie History *"Donald B. Smith, emeritus professor of history at the University of Calgary, provides fascinating biographical portraits of sixteen non-Indigenous individuals from different professions and examines how each influenced Canadian perceptions of Indigenous peoples. Well known as the author of previous biographies of Mississauga Chief Peter Jones and the mysterious Buffalo Child Long Lance, Smith draws on knowledge gained in a half-century of archival research and field work to provide readers of Seen but Not Seen with the reasons for Ottawa’s many failures in regard to Indigenous peoples. Although geared for Canadian scholars, historians of Native Americans in the United States will find Smith’s excellent work quite illuminating, as much has parallels south of the international boundary line." -- Laurence M. Hauptman, State University of New York * American Indian Culture & Research Journal *"While most studies in the field evaluate Indigenous policy through laws and the communities impacted by them, Smith focuses on the lawmakers and activists themselves. Shifting the focus from the nation state, governmental departments, and police bureaus to individuals may inspire new conversations around settler accountability for historic wrongdoings." -- Emma Scott and Brittany Luby * Canadian Historical Review *"Seen but Not Seen represents an outstanding culmination of a lifetime of work of one of the first Canadian historians to enter the field of Indigenous history." -- Kevin Brushett * Ontario History *"Seen but Not Seen: Influential Canadians and the First Nations from the 1840s to Today offers readers unparalleled expertise on Canadian indigeneity across two centuries." -- Jan Noel, University of Toronto * Ethnohistory *"With Seen but Not Seen, Smith has taken a voluminous amount of research and distilled it into a readable, balanced account that’s packed with fascinating detail. His evident passion for the topic shines through." * Canada’s History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Maps Prologue Note on Terminology 1. John A. Macdonald and the “Indians” 2. Rev. John McDougall and the Stoney Nakoda 3. George Grant: An English Canadian Public Intellectual and the “Indians” 4. Chancellor John A. Boyd and a Fellow Georgian Bay Cottager, Kathleen Coburn 5. Duncan Campbell Scott: Determined Assimilationist 6. Paul A.W. Wallace and the “White Roots of Peace” 7. Quebec Viewpoints: From Lionel Groulx to Jacques Rousseau 8. Attitudes on the Pacific Coast: Franz Boas, Emily Carr, and Maisie Hurley 9. Alberta Perspectives: Long Lance, John Laurie, Hugh Dempsey, and Harold Cardinal Epilogue: The First Nations and Canada’s Conscience Bibliography Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe supposed extinction of the Indigenous Beothuk people of Newfoundland in the early nineteenth century is a foundational moment in Canadian history. Increasingly under scrutiny, non-Indigenous perceptions of the Beothuk have had especially dire and far-reaching ramifications for contemporary Indigenous people in Newfoundland and Labrador. Tracing Ochre reassesses popular beliefs about the Beothuk. Placing the group in global context, Fiona Polack and a diverse collection of contributors juxtapose the history of the Beothuk with the experiences of other Indigenous peoples outside of Canada, including those living in former British colonies as diverse as Tasmania, South Africa, and the islands of the Caribbean. Featuring contributions of Indigenous and non-Indigenous thinkers from a wide range of scholarly and community backgrounds, Tracing Ochre aims to definitively shift established perceptions of a people who were among the first to confront European coloniaTrade Review"The mournful story of the "last of the Boethuks"" still resonates as part of Newfoundland history. The fourteen authors in the wide-ranging collection Tracing Ochre assess this story’s impact and credibility, including accounts from archaeologists, literary critics, and historians." -- Margery Fee * Canadian Literature, July 12, 2019 (web) *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Maps Preface Introduction: De-islanding the Beothuk Fiona Polack Part 1: Land, Language and Memory Good and Bad Indians: Romanticizing the Beothuk and Denigrating the Mi’kmaq Maura Hanrahan When the Beothuk (Won’t) Speak: Michael Crummey’s River Thieves and Bernice Morgan’s Cloud of Bone Cynthia Sugars "The Ones That Were Abused": Thinking About the Beothuk Through Translation Elizabeth Penashue and Elizabeth Yeoman A Clearing with a View to the Lake, the Bones of a Caribou and the Sound of Snow Falling on Dead Leaves: Sensing the Presence of the Past in the Wilds of Newfoundland John Harries Part 2: Mercenaries, Myths and DNA Beothuk and Mi’kmaq: An Interiew with Chief Mi’sel Joe Chief Mi’sel Joe and Christopher Aylward The Beothuk and the Myth of Prior Invasions Patrick Brantlinger Bioarchaeology, Bioethics and the Beothuk Daryl Pullman Part 3: Ways of Knowing Towards a Beothuk Archaeology: Understanding Indigenous Agency in the Material Record Lisa Rankin Historical Sources and the Beothuk: Questioning Settler Interpretations Lianne C. Leddy Historical Narrative Perspective in Howley and Speck Christopher Aylward Part 4: Travelling Tales Santu Toney, a Transnational Beothuk Woman Beverley Diamond Routes of Colonial Racism: Travelling Narratives of European Progress and Aboriginal Extinction in Pre-Confederation Newfoundland Jocelyn Thorpe Unrecognized Peoples and Concepts of Extinction Bonita Lawrence Shanawdithit and Truganini: Converging and Diverging Histories Fiona Polack Coda: The Recovery of Indigenous Identity J. Edward Chamberlin

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Book SynopsisGlimpses of Oneida Life is a remarkable compilation of modern stories of community life at the Oneida Nation of the Thames Settlement and the surrounding area.Table of ContentsPART I: PRELIMINARIES 1. Introduction 2. Oneida Sounds and Orthography PART II: STORIES Language Lessons Ghostly Tales Pranks and Mishaps More Favourite Memories Customs Growing Up and Working Reflections PART III: GRAMMAR 1. Introduction 2. Word Structure 3. Possession 4. Clauses 5. Negation 6. Questions 7. Indefinites 8. Free Relatives and Corelatives 9. Counting 10. Degree and Comparison 11. Possibility and Necessity 12. Other Linkages Between Clauses APPENDIX 1: List of Particles APPENDIX 2: Segmented Texts

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Book SynopsisIndigenous Criminology comprehensively explores Indigenous people's contact with criminal justice systems in a contemporary and historical context. It addresses both the theoretical underpinnings of the development of a specific Indigenous criminology, and canvasses the broader policy and practice implications for criminal justice.Trade Review"A welcome contribution to the decolonization paradigm in Criminology, a discipline that is complicit in the enslavement, colonization, genocidization and criminalization of Others with repressive fetishes of western modernity." Biko Agozino, editor, African Journal of Criminology“A major original contribution providing a valuable theoretical comparative perspective to the limits of traditional Western criminology by defying the status quo and giving Indigenous people a criminological voice.” Stuart Henry, San Diego State University"Thoroughly researched, brilliantly argued, this powerful critique of mainstream criminology carves an elegant and welcome path to critical and responsive Indigenous-informed criminology." L. Jane McMillan, St. Francis Xavier University, CanadaTable of ContentsPreface ~ Andrew Millie; Introduction; Towards an Indigenous Criminology; Understanding the Impact of Colonialism; Policing, Indigenous Peoples and Social Order; Indigenous Women and Settler Colonial Crime Control; Reconceptualising Sentencing and Punishment from an Indigenous Perspective; Indigenous Peoples and the Globalisation of Crime Control; Critical Issues in the Development of an Indigenous Criminology.

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Ethnographies of U.S. Empire examine how people live in and with empire, presenting ethnographic scholarship from across U.S. imperial formations, from the Mohawk Nation, Korea, and the Philippines to Guantánamo and the hills of New Jersey.Trade Review"Ethnographies of U.S. Empire cover[s] myriad aspects of American life and history, from American conduct in dealing with indigenous peoples to the Iran-Contra conspiracy and the War on Terror. . . . The nearly 50-page bibliography offers a sturdy jumping-off point for further study. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty." -- S.J. Zuber-Chall * Choice *"These essays raise important questions not always broached by historians, particularly the consequences and materiality of rumor, conspiracy, epistemology, and neoliberalism. The volume will be useful for students and scholars of U.S. empire, and it encourages interdisciplinary conversations between historians and anthropologists." -- Jana Kate Lipman * Journal of American History *"Beyond the scholarship on specific themes or geographic areas, each chapter does an excellent job of locating the lived experiences in particular places within the overall context of empire. The book offers a strong refutation of the idea that postmodern empires are uniform or deterritorial. Its strength is the methodology of placing peoples’ ideas and actions within the wider context of global forces." -- Lanny Thompson * New West Indian Guide *"These essays raise important questions not always broached by historians, particularly the consequences and materiality of rumor, conspiracy, epistemology, and neoliberalism. The volume will be useful for students and scholars of U.S. empire, and it encourages interdisciplinary conversations between historians and anthropologists." -- Jana Kate Lipman * Journal of American History *"Engaging emerging, multidisciplinary conversations across anthropology, American studies, and postcolonial studies about how empire operates and endures, Ethnographies of U.S. Empire is a reflection both on empire and on ethnography. Together, the chapters make a case for ethnographic research as a way of studying empire, as a method that offers not a bounded or concise definition of what makes an empire, but rather an expansive sense of how people live with and within the imperial present." -- Emma Shaw Crane * Society & Space *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Ethnography and U.S. Empire / John F. Collins and Carole McGranahan 1 I. Settlement, Sentiment, Sovereignty 1. The "Affects" of Empire: (Dis)trust among Osage Annuitants / Jean Dennison 27 2. Milking the Cow for All It's Worth: Settler Colonialism and the Politics of Imperialist Resentment in Hawaiʻi / J. Kēhaulani Kauanui 47 3. Sovereignty, Sympathy, and Indigeneity / Audra Simpson 72 II. Colonialism by Any Other Name 4. A School of Addicts: The Coloniality of Addiction in Puerto Rico / Adriana María Garriga-López 93 5. Inhabiting the Aporias of Empire: Protest Politics in Contemporary Puerto Rico / Melissa Rosario 112 6. Training for Empire?: Samoa and American Gridiron Football / Faʻanofo Lisaclaire Uperesa 129 7. Exceptionalism as a Way of Life: U.S. Empire, Filipino Subjectivity, and the Global Call Center Industry / Jan M. Padios 149 III. Temporality, Proximity, Dispersion 8. In Their Place: Cottica Ndyuka in Moengo / Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha 173 9. Shifting Geographies of Proximity: Korean-led Evangelical Christian Missions and the U.S. Empire / Ju Hui Judy Han 194 10. Sites of the Postcolonial Cold War / Heonik Kwon 214 11. Time Standards and Rhizomatic Imperialism / Kevin K. Birth 227 IV. Military Promises 12. Islands of Imperialism: Military Bases and the Ethnography of U.S. Empire / David Vine 249 13. Domesticating the U.S. Air Force: The Challenges of Anti-Military Activism in Manta, Ecuador / Erin Fitz-Henry 270 14. The Empire of Choice and the Emergence of Military Dissent / Matthew Gutmann and Catherine Lutz 291 V. Residue, Rumors, Remnants 15. Locating Landmines in the Korean Demilitarized Zone / Eleana Kim 313 16. Love and Empire: The CIA, Tibet, and Covert Humanitarianism / Carole McGranahan 333 17. Trust Us: Nicaragua, Iran-Contra, and the Discursive Economy of Empire / Joe Bryan 350 18. Empire as Accusation, Denial, and Structure: The Social Life of U.S. Power at Brazil's Spaceport / Sean T. Mitchell 369 VI. 9/11, The War on Terror, and the Return of Empire 19. Radicalizing Empire: Youth and Dissent in the War on Terror / Sunaina Maria 391 20. Deporting Cambodian Refugees: Youth Activism, State Reform, and Imperial Statecraft / Soo Ah Kwon 411 21. Hunters of the Sourlands: Empire and Displacement in Highland New Jersey / John F. Collins 431 22. From Exception to Empire: Sovereignty, Carceral Circulation, and the "Global War on Terror" / Darryl Li 456 Afterword. Disassemblage: Rethinking U.S. Imperial Formations / Ann Laura Stoler in conversation with Carole McGranahan 477 Bibliography 491 Contributors 539 Index 541

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Book SynopsisIn a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawai‘i’s admission as a U.S. state. Dean Saranillio tracks the disparate stories different groups tell about Hawaiian statehood by returning to historical flashpoints ranging from the turn of the century until shortly after 1959.Trade Review"[Unsustainable Empire is] a very powerful book with which to teach about what it means to work across social movements." -- Jaskiran Dhillon * Edge Effects *"Unsustainable Empire adds to scholarship on American nation-building, settler colonialism, statehood histories, and public relations politics and propaganda. The book should be a welcome addition to introductory-level history courses that deal with American empire or history and memory." -- Julie Hawks * Journal of American Culture *"[Unsustainable Empire] is instructive for its truly intersectional analysis of white and Asian settler colonialisms, U.S. imperialism, and heteropatriarchy, as well as many exciting passages on Hawai‘i's militant labor movement.… The book is an urgent call to expose the web of lies that empire is built on so we can build truly sustainable futures that respect Indigenous values, land, and leadership." -- Kim Compoc * Native American and Indigenous Studies *"Perhaps Saranillio’s most significant contribution is his rigorous theoretical analysis of settler colonialism and capitalism. . . . The most hopeful aspects of Saranillio’s work are the alternative futures made possible by a fuller understanding of Hawai‘i’s complex history. Such messaging is both necessarily encouraging and eminently useful for intellectuals employing decolonial methodologies—particularly those in settler-colonial contexts—and all those who seek a decolonized Hawai‘i." -- Shannon Pomaika‘i Hennessey * The Contemporary Pacific *Table of ContentsPreface. "Statehood Sucks" ix Acknowledgments xxi Introduction. Colliding Futures of Hawai‘i Statehood 1 1. A Future Wish: Hawai‘i at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition 31 2. The Courage to Speak: Disrupting Haole Hegemony at the 1937 Congressional Statehood Hearings 67 3. "Something Indefinable Would Be Lost": The Unruly Kamokila and Go for Broke! 99 4. The Propaganda of Occupation: Statehood and the Cold War 131 5. Alternative Futures beyond the Settler State 171 Conclusion. Scenes of Resurgence: Slow Violence and Slow Resistance 197 Notes 211 Bibliography 245 Index 267

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Book SynopsisDrawing on indigenous social movements and politics, this volume's contributors question Western epistemologies, theorize new forms of knowledge production, and critique the presumed divide between nature and cultureall in service of creating a pluriverse: a cosmos composed of many worlds partially connected through divergent political practices.Trade Review"The strength of this book is its presentation and varied discussion of the omission of all of the 'other-than-human-persons' who comprise the heterogeneity of cultures that form worlds beyond the Anthropocene. . . . This book provides excellent fodder for readers to reflexively consider their individual roles in the global knowledge-making process, the outcomes they create (and are creating), and the frames within which they dwell." -- Sally A. Applin * Journal of International and Global Studies *“A World of Many Worlds is a rich and welcome collection of essays that offers a complex and exploratory response to a timely problematic. Its statement is forthright and hallmark....” -- Mat Keel * AAG Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Pluriverse: Proposals for a World of Many Worlds / Mario Blaser and Marisol de la Cadena 1 1. Opening Up Relations / Marilyn Strathern 23 2. Spiderweb Anthropologies: Ecologies, Infrastructures, Entanglements / Alberto Corsín Jiménez 53 3. The Challenge of Ontological Politics / Isabelle Stengers 83 4. The Politics of Working Cosmologies Together While Keeping Them Separate / Helen Verran 112 5. Denaturalizing Nature / John Law and Marianne Lien 131 6. Humans and Terrans in the Gaia War / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Deborah Danowski 172 Contributors 205 Index 209

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Book SynopsisKeith L. Camacho examines the U.S. Navy's war crimes tribunal in Guam between 1944 and 1949 which tried members of Guam's indigenous Chamorro community and Japanese nationals and its role in shaping contemporary domestic and international laws regarding combatants, jurisdiction, and property.Trade Review“Sacred Men is a truly singular work of immense importance. It is original, compelling, and fiercely thought-provoking. Through a theoretical engagement with the Chamorro, Rotanese, and Saipanese indigenous epistemologies, Keith L. Camacho has brought the discussion of U.S. empire, law, sovereignty, militarism, and the working of carceral power to an entirely new horizon in ways no other scholar has done. A pathbreaking, field-shifting intervention.” -- Lisa Yoneyama, author of * Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes *“Exceedingly engaging, theoretically accomplished, and incisively researched, Sacred Men unravels the 1944 U.S. military tribunal in Guam, which included the prosecution and torture of Chamorro indigenes. Employing Agamben's homo sacer, Keith L. Camacho provides a razor-sharp analysis of the tribunal as a very real ‘bare life’ event but also as a metaphor for the murder, torture, and foreclosure of political life that has occurred throughout the colonies as ‘states of exception.’” -- Brendan Hokowhitu, coeditor of * The Fourth Eye: Maori Media in Aotearoa New Zealand *"Provocative and engaging, Camacho’s work not only breaks new ground in postcolonial and transpacific studies, but also calls attention to the role that Chamorro, Rotanese, and Saipanese indigenous epistemologies may play in the decolonization and deimperialization of US-occupied Guam." -- Y. Shu * Choice *“Author Keith Camacho is especially interested in developing an analysis of law, justice, incarceration, and punishment in colonial situations...and in weaving this theoretical apparatus into the longer and larger history of US colonial rule in both North America and abroad.... [P]ath-breaking work...” -- Glenn Petersen * Pacific Affairs *“Camacho’s intricately researched and powerfully theorized book Sacred Men is the first to examine, at close range, the U.S. Navy trials of Japanese and native people in Guam before and after 1945.... [It] should be required reading for all graduate students and scholars of war, justice, and the American empire in the Pacific.” -- Franziska Seraphim * Journal of Military History *“Sacred Men makes crucial theoretical, methodological, and historiographical interventions into carceral studies, Indigenous studies, and studies of U.S. empire and militarism.... Sacred Men is an essential resource for scholars of Indigenous peoples, especially those separated by political regimes and imperial boundaries." -- Kristin Oberiano * Amerasia Journal *“Through uncovering these once buried stories, Camacho illustrates a wide range of human responses to the pressures of war and colonial domination. . . . Sacred Men will prove to be a welcome addition to the cannon of Marianas history.” -- Michael R. Clement Jr. * Small States & Territories *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. The State of Exception 1. War Bodies 29 2. War Crimes 60 Part II. The Bird and the Lizard 3. Native Assailants 89 4. Native Murderers 116 Part III. The Military Colony 5. Japanese Traitors 149 6. Japanese Militarists 181 Conclusion 215 Notes 225 Bibliography 269 Index 283

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Book SynopsisKeith L. Camacho examines the U.S. Navy's war crimes tribunal in Guam between 1944 and 1949 which tried members of Guam's indigenous Chamorro community and Japanese nationals and its role in shaping contemporary domestic and international laws regarding combatants, jurisdiction, and property.Trade Review“Sacred Men is a truly singular work of immense importance. It is original, compelling, and fiercely thought-provoking. Through a theoretical engagement with the Chamorro, Rotanese, and Saipanese indigenous epistemologies, Keith L. Camacho has brought the discussion of U.S. empire, law, sovereignty, militarism, and the working of carceral power to an entirely new horizon in ways no other scholar has done. A pathbreaking, field-shifting intervention.” -- Lisa Yoneyama, author of * Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes *“Exceedingly engaging, theoretically accomplished, and incisively researched, Sacred Men unravels the 1944 U.S. military tribunal in Guam, which included the prosecution and torture of Chamorro indigenes. Employing Agamben's homo sacer, Keith L. Camacho provides a razor-sharp analysis of the tribunal as a very real ‘bare life’ event but also as a metaphor for the murder, torture, and foreclosure of political life that has occurred throughout the colonies as ‘states of exception.’” -- Brendan Hokowhitu, coeditor of * The Fourth Eye: Maori Media in Aotearoa New Zealand *"Provocative and engaging, Camacho’s work not only breaks new ground in postcolonial and transpacific studies, but also calls attention to the role that Chamorro, Rotanese, and Saipanese indigenous epistemologies may play in the decolonization and deimperialization of US-occupied Guam." -- Y. Shu * Choice *“Author Keith Camacho is especially interested in developing an analysis of law, justice, incarceration, and punishment in colonial situations...and in weaving this theoretical apparatus into the longer and larger history of US colonial rule in both North America and abroad.... [P]ath-breaking work...” -- Glenn Petersen * Pacific Affairs *“Camacho’s intricately researched and powerfully theorized book Sacred Men is the first to examine, at close range, the U.S. Navy trials of Japanese and native people in Guam before and after 1945.... [It] should be required reading for all graduate students and scholars of war, justice, and the American empire in the Pacific.” -- Franziska Seraphim * Journal of Military History *“Sacred Men makes crucial theoretical, methodological, and historiographical interventions into carceral studies, Indigenous studies, and studies of U.S. empire and militarism.... Sacred Men is an essential resource for scholars of Indigenous peoples, especially those separated by political regimes and imperial boundaries." -- Kristin Oberiano * Amerasia Journal *“Through uncovering these once buried stories, Camacho illustrates a wide range of human responses to the pressures of war and colonial domination. . . . Sacred Men will prove to be a welcome addition to the cannon of Marianas history.” -- Michael R. Clement Jr. * Small States & Territories *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. The State of Exception 1. War Bodies 29 2. War Crimes 60 Part II. The Bird and the Lizard 3. Native Assailants 89 4. Native Murderers 116 Part III. The Military Colony 5. Japanese Traitors 149 6. Japanese Militarists 181 Conclusion 215 Notes 225 Bibliography 269 Index 283

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Book SynopsisIn Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human Joseph Pugliese examines the concept of the biopolitical through a nonanthropocentric lens, arguing that more-than-human entities—from soil and orchards to animals and water—are actors and agents in their own right with legitimate claims to justice. Examining occupied Palestine, Guantánamo, and sites of US drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen, Pugliese challenges notions of human exceptionalism by arguing that more-than-human victims of war and colonialism are entangled with and subject to the same violent biopolitical regimes as humans. He also draws on Indigenous epistemologies that invest more-than-human entities with judicial standing to argue for an ethico-legal framework that will enable the realization of ecological justice. Bringing the more-than-human world into the purview of justice, Pugliese makes visible the ecological effects of human war that would otherwise remain outside the domains oTrade Review“A mesmerizing exploration of the more-than-human dimensions of later modern war that is never less than deeply human. Linguistically inventive, analytically sobering—you keep wondering why it has taken us so long to see like this—Joseph Pugliese's vision of forensic ecology initiates an arrestingly novel critique of military violence. At once profoundly political and deeply ethical, this is a magnificently vital achievement.” -- Derek Gregory, Peter Wall Distinguished Professor and Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia“Joseph Pugliese’s reconfiguration of biopolitics does not simply take the politics of populations and life and extend its range to include the more-than-human; the very threshold between the human and ‘other’ life-forms falls away. What is revealed is a new political-legal ethics entirely: not a question of how ‘we’ humans grant rights to others, but of how the more-than-human offers itself as an imperative to rethink the anthropocentrism of European law. Exploring Indigenous and non-Western cosmologies provides a way to think about life, value, and politics that does not rely on the dignity of the human and its concomitant violence for all that is other-than-human. It is rare to read a book that combines such theoretical dexterity with fascinating empirical analysis of some of our most pressing ethical issues.” -- Claire Colebrook, author of * Death of the PostHuman: Essays on Extinction *"Pugliese’s book makes a valuable contribution to the fields of critical legal studies, critical security studies, and geopolitical ecology. . . . He admirably weaves a decolonial lens with new materialism and draws effectively on Indigenous cosmoepistemologies to expand the way we conceptualize, perceive, and feel these forms of more-than-human violence.” -- Michael J. Albert * Law, Culture, and the Humanities *"Pugliese's retheorization of biopolitics offers new ways of understanding military violence by attending to the different technologies used to manage life and death. . . . Pugliese's interventions powerfully unearth the 'forensic ecologies of saturated violence,' their more-than-human witnesses, and their possibilities for resistance." -- Nicole Nguyen * Journal of Palestine Studies *"Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human contributes to debates on violence and conflict in environmental politics on whether and why Israeli occupation, settler colonialism, anti-black racism, and US toxic militarism should be challenged as environmental justice problems. Moreover, this book helps educators to teach Foucauldian discourse, biopolitics, and power relations through a critical postcolonial lens via a life and death example that is still occurring every single day." -- Rezvaneh Erfani * Postcolonial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Zoopolitics of the Cage 39 2. Biopolitical Modalities of the More-Than-Human and Their Forensic Ecologies 81 3. Animal Excendence and Inanimal Torture 124 4. Drone Sparagmos 166 Afterword 203 Notes 217 Bibliography 255 Index

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Otherwise Worlds investigate the complex relationships between settler colonialism and anti-Blackness to explore the political possibilities that emerge from such inquiries. Pointing out that presumptions of solidarity, antagonism, or incommensurability between Black and Native communities are insufficient to understand the relationships between the groups, the volume''s scholars, artists, and activists look to articulate new modes of living and organizing in the service of creating new futures. Among other topics, they examine the ontological status of Blackness and Indigeneity, possible forms of relationality between Black and Native communities, perspectives on Black and Indigenous sociality, and freeing the flesh from the constraints of violence and settler colonialism. Throughout the volume''s essays, art, and interviews, the contributors carefully attend to alternative kinds of relationships between Black and Native communities that can lead toward libeTrade Review“Ambitious, theoretically sophisticated, and timely, Otherwise Worlds stages a much-needed conversation between Black studies and Native studies as they interface with critical race theory and gender and queer theory while significantly advancing the discourses around racialized being, anti-blackness, Indigeneity, and settler colonialism.” -- Alexander G. Weheliye, author of * Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human *“Presenting new analyses and theorizations of the intersections and tensions between Black studies and Native studies, Otherwise Worlds shows how these fields can speak and think with each other. It has the potential to serve as a model of decolonial love in the academy and in our communities.” -- Michelle Jacob, author of * Indian Pilgrims: Indigenous Journeys of Activism and Healing with Saint Kateri Tekakwitha *"There is so much to admire about this book. I am making my way through each section slowly. Artists, activists and scholars frame the questions, complexities and possibilities an 'otherwise' orientation might open up, if we find better and better ways of ‘thinking of, caring for and talking to one another’ about the ongoing effects of genocide, colonialism, enslavement and anti-Blackness." -- Julia Guez * Houston Chronicle *“Otherwise Worlds offers a thought-provoking guide towards re-imagining the presence, resurgence and future of Black and Indigenous life…. Otherwise Worlds is an outstanding piece of academic work and a remarkable guide to approaching alternative worlds beyond racism, ecological destruction and racial capitalism.” -- Laura Mariana Reyes * Cultural Studies *“This collection is truly a conversation between disciplines and paves the way for new ways of relating to one another. Otherwise Worlds is a compelling collection that does what it sets out to do.” -- Alina Scott * E3W Review of Books *“Otherwise Worlds is a call to think beyond ourselves and curate an authentic relation to the scholarship, the land, and mainly the people. A major takeaway from each interview, essay, and artwork in this volume is the range of interdisciplinarity needed to capture the complexity of this discourse of sovereignty and liberation across the diaspora.” -- Daisy E. Guzman Nunez * NACLA Report on the Americas *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Beyond Incommensurability: Toward an Otherwise Stance on Black and Indigenous Relationality / Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, and Andrea Smith 1 Part I. Boundless Bodies 1. Stayed | Freedom | Hallelujah / Ashon Crawley 27 2. Reading the Dead: A Feminist Black Critique of Global Capital / Denise Ferreira da Silva 38 3. Staying Ready for Black Study / Frank B. Wilderson III and Tiffany Lethabo King 52 Part II. Boundless Ontologies 4. New World Grammars: The "Unthought" Black Discourses of Conquest / Tiffany Lethabo King 77 5. The Vel of Slavery: Tracking the Figure of the Unsovereign / Jared Sexton 94 6. Sovereignty as Deferred Genocide / Andrea Smith 118 7. Murder and Metaphysics: Leslie Marmon Silko's "Tony's Story" and Audre Lorde's "Power" / Chad Benito Infante 133 8. Black Malpractice (or, the Fugitive Sacred) / J. Kameron Carter 158 Part III. Boundless Socialities 9. Possessions of Whiteness: Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness in the Pacific / Maile Arvin 213 10. "What's Past Is Prologue": Black Native Refusal and the Colonial Archive / Sandra Harvey 218 11. Indian Country's Apartheid / Cedric Sunray 236 12. "Ugh! Maskoke People and Our Pervasive Anti-Black Racism . . . Let the Language Teach Us!" / Marcus Briggs-Cloud 13. Mississippian Black Metal Grl on a Friday Night with Artist's Statement / Hotvlkuce Harjo 291 Part IV. Boundless Kinship 14. The Countdown Remix: Why Two Native Feminists Ride with Queen Bey / Jenelle Navarro and Kimberly Robertson 15. Slay Serigraph with Artist's Statement / Kimberly Robertson 320 16. Mass Incarceration since 1492 / Jenell Navarro and Kimberly Robertson 322 17. "Liberation," Cover of Queer Indigenous Girl, Volume 4, and "Roots," Cover of Black Indigenous Boy, Volume 2 / Se'mana Thompson 330 18. Visual Cultures of Indigenous Futurism / Lindsay Nixon 332 19. Diaspora, Transnationalism, and the Decolonial Project / Rinaldo Walcott 343 20. Building Maroon Intellectual Communities / Chris Finley 362 About the Authors 371 Index

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Book SynopsisIn Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human Joseph Pugliese examines the concept of the biopolitical through a nonanthropocentric lens, arguing that more-than-human entities—from soil and orchards to animals and water—are actors and agents in their own right with legitimate claims to justice. Examining occupied Palestine, Guantánamo, and sites of US drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen, Pugliese challenges notions of human exceptionalism by arguing that more-than-human victims of war and colonialism are entangled with and subject to the same violent biopolitical regimes as humans. He also draws on Indigenous epistemologies that invest more-than-human entities with judicial standing to argue for an ethico-legal framework that will enable the realization of ecological justice. Bringing the more-than-human world into the purview of justice, Pugliese makes visible the ecological effects of human war that would otherwise remain outside the domains oTrade Review“A mesmerizing exploration of the more-than-human dimensions of later modern war that is never less than deeply human. Linguistically inventive, analytically sobering—you keep wondering why it has taken us so long to see like this—Joseph Pugliese's vision of forensic ecology initiates an arrestingly novel critique of military violence. At once profoundly political and deeply ethical, this is a magnificently vital achievement.” -- Derek Gregory, Peter Wall Distinguished Professor and Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia“Joseph Pugliese’s reconfiguration of biopolitics does not simply take the politics of populations and life and extend its range to include the more-than-human; the very threshold between the human and ‘other’ life-forms falls away. What is revealed is a new political-legal ethics entirely: not a question of how ‘we’ humans grant rights to others, but of how the more-than-human offers itself as an imperative to rethink the anthropocentrism of European law. Exploring Indigenous and non-Western cosmologies provides a way to think about life, value, and politics that does not rely on the dignity of the human and its concomitant violence for all that is other-than-human. It is rare to read a book that combines such theoretical dexterity with fascinating empirical analysis of some of our most pressing ethical issues.” -- Claire Colebrook, author of * Death of the PostHuman: Essays on Extinction *"Pugliese’s book makes a valuable contribution to the fields of critical legal studies, critical security studies, and geopolitical ecology. . . . He admirably weaves a decolonial lens with new materialism and draws effectively on Indigenous cosmoepistemologies to expand the way we conceptualize, perceive, and feel these forms of more-than-human violence.” -- Michael J. Albert * Law, Culture, and the Humanities *"Pugliese's retheorization of biopolitics offers new ways of understanding military violence by attending to the different technologies used to manage life and death. . . . Pugliese's interventions powerfully unearth the 'forensic ecologies of saturated violence,' their more-than-human witnesses, and their possibilities for resistance." -- Nicole Nguyen * Journal of Palestine Studies *"Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human contributes to debates on violence and conflict in environmental politics on whether and why Israeli occupation, settler colonialism, anti-black racism, and US toxic militarism should be challenged as environmental justice problems. Moreover, this book helps educators to teach Foucauldian discourse, biopolitics, and power relations through a critical postcolonial lens via a life and death example that is still occurring every single day." -- Rezvaneh Erfani * Postcolonial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Zoopolitics of the Cage 39 2. Biopolitical Modalities of the More-Than-Human and Their Forensic Ecologies 81 3. Animal Excendence and Inanimal Torture 124 4. Drone Sparagmos 166 Afterword 203 Notes 217 Bibliography 255 Index

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Book SynopsisIn Speaking for the People Mark Rifkin examines nineteenth-century Native writings to reframe contemporary debates around Indigenous recognition, refusal, and resurgence. Rifkin shows how works by Native authors (William Apess, Elias Boudinot, Sarah Winnemucca, and Zitkala-Ša) illustrate the intellectual labor involved in representing modes of Indigenous political identity and placemaking. These writers highlight the complex processes involved in negotiating the character, contours, and scope of Indigenous sovereignties under ongoing colonial occupation. Rifkin argues that attending to these writers'' engagements with non-native publics helps provide further analytical tools for addressing the complexities of Indigenous governance on the ground—both then and now. Thinking about Native peoplehood and politics as a matter of form opens possibilities for addressing the difficult work involved in navigating among varied possibilities for conceptualizing and enacting peoTrade Review“Mark Rifkin examines important nineteenth-century Native literary figures' engagement with settler publics by laying out a nuanced introspection of their ‘portraits of peoplehood’ during tumultuous contexts and the costs of such representativity that foster tension in the present day. He resituates the discussion of recognition to this earlier period in order to detour from a settler stronghold on political definitions still used to impact the daily life of Indigenous peoples. Delving deep into the political spheres of violence and the nuanced political forms of Indigenous life that emerge, Rifkin gives us further grounds to explore the foundations and formations of slippery recognition politics.” -- Mishuana Goeman, Professor of Gender Studies and American Indian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles“Presenting new, insightful, nuanced, and persuasive readings of four key figures in nineteenth-century Native American literature, Speaking for the People is both timely and poised to become a classic study in Native and Indigenous studies, anthropology, and American literary studies. An interdisciplinary tour de force.” -- Birgit Brander Rasmussen, author of * Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature *"Speaking for the People is as useful for scholars and students of contemporary indigenous studies as it is for those pursuing the study of 19th-century literature, politics, and indigenous peoples. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- J. J. Donahue * Choice *"In Speaking for the People Mark Rifkin contributes to the ongoing critical conversation regarding Indigenous recognition. In richly historicized chapters he questions the process of how Indigenous leaders . . . consciously stage the 'legitimacy of their entry' into the discursive frameworks of coloniality." -- Caitlin Simmons * Western American Literature *"Speaking for the People reasserts the usefulness and relevance of literary studies in fashioning Indigenous political theory. Rifkin demonstrates how nineteenth-century Native texts have had to navigate settler worldings to express peoplehood and how their intellectual labor of negotiatedness should inspire present-day scholarship. His demonstration is as compelling as it is unsettling." -- Mathilde Louette * Transatlantica *"Speaking for the People . . . is valuable for literary scholars and Indigenous scholars alike to articulate the complexity of Indigenous activism in a settler state." -- Alison Russell * New England Quarterly *"Speaking for the People has generated a rich set of coordinates and queries for analyzing nineteenth-century Native writing, and Rifkin’s readings model how these questions take us deep into nineteenth-century Native political discussions while resonating in contemporary NAIS scholarship." -- Kelly Wisecup * Native American and Indigenous Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. What's in a Nation? Cherokee Vanguardism in Elias Boudinot's Letters 35 2. Experiments in Signifying Sovereignty: Exemplarity and the Politics of Southern New England in William Apess 77 3. Among Ghost Dances: Sarah Winnemucca and the Production of Paiute Identity 127 4. The Native Informant Speaks: The Politics of Ethnographic Subjectivity in Zitkala-Ša's Autobiographical Stories 176 Coda. On Refusing the Ethnographic Imaginary, or Reading for the Politics of Peoplehood 221 Notes 235 Bibliography 277 Index 301

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Book SynopsisNitasha Tamar Sharma maps the context and contours of Black life in Hawai?i, showing how despite the presence of anti-Black racism, the state's Black residents consider it to be their haven from racism.Trade Review“Highlighting the place of Hawai‘i as a site for analyzing the most pressing cultural, political, and economic currents facing our world, Nitasha Tamar Sharma provides a unique and nuanced view into the complex flows of Islander life while creating new spaces for Black and multiracial voices that are all too frequently silenced. This much-needed work makes an important contribution to theorizing race and indigeneity together in American studies, ethnic studies, African American studies, and Native and Indigenous studies.” -- Ty P. Kawika Tengan, author of * Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai‘i *“This is an elegantly written, trenchantly argued, and persuasively rendered ethnography of African Americans in Hawai‘i. It is simultaneously a landmark pointing the way to how the United States itself may evolve in the twenty-first century as it comes to resemble, racially and ethnically, the vibrant fiftieth state.” -- Gerald Horne, author of * The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War *"Hawaiʻi Is My Haven is an ambitious and original work of scholarship. By focusing on an oft-overlooked demographic, it creates a fuller, more accurate picture of Hawaii’s history." -- Eric Stinton * Honolulu Civil Beat *"This book will be of interest to scholars of Pacific settlement histories, transnational and ethnocultural identities, colonialism, and indigenous activism. For those teaching Pacific studies courses, this volume adds a new dimension to Hawaiian histories of migration, settler colonization, and multiculturalism, as well as current alignments in social justice movements." -- Michelle Ladwig Williams * Pacific Affairs *"This is an interesting and important work for scholars in the fields [of Native and Indigenous studies, mixed-race studies, African American studies, American studies, and ethnic studies.] But for Hawaiian scholars and/or activists invested in a more pono future for Hawai‘i, this book is required reading." -- Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada * Native American and Indigenous Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: Hawaiʻi Is My Haven 1 1. Over Two Centuries: The History of Black People in Hawaiʻi 37 2. "Saltwater Negroes": Black Locals, Multiracialism, and Expansive Blackness 71 3. "Less Pressure": Black Transplants, Settler Colonialism, and a Racial Lens 120 4. Racism in Paradise: AntiBlack Racism and Resistance in Hawaiʻi 166 5. Embodying Kuleana: Negotiating Black and Native Positionality in Hawaiʻi 217 Conclusion: Identity↔Politics↔Knowledge 261 Notes 279 Bibliography 305 Index 331

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Book SynopsisIn Unsettled Borders Felicity Amaya Schaeffer examines the ongoing settler colonial war over the US-Mexico border from the perspective of Apache, Tohono O’odham, and Maya who fight to protect their sacred land. Schaeffer traces the scientific and technological development of militarized border surveillance across time and space from Spanish colonial lookout points in Arizona and Mexico to the Indian wars, when the US cavalry hired Native scouts to track Apache fleeing into Mexico, to the occupation of the Tohono O’odham reservation and the recent launch of robotic bee swarms. Labeled “Optics Valley,” Arizona builds on a global history of violent dispossession and containment of Native peoples and migrants by branding itself as a profitable hub for surveillance. Schaeffer reverses the logic of borders by turning to Indigenous sacredsciences: ancestral land-based practices that are critical to reversing the ecological and social violence of surveillance, exTrade Review“[Unsettled Borders] includes an impressively documented bibliography. The text ultimately succeeds in telling a story of violence against Indigenous peoples and their cultures, perpetrated in the name of border security, and documenting the use of surveillance technology, which has permanently altered the landscape. Recommended.” -- G. Christensen * Choice *"Unsettled Borders makes an outstanding contribution to replacing some of the missing pieces while incorporating neocolonialism and interethnic borders into state border studies. Its author, Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, builds a great basis for a problem that is gaining greater visibility, exposing an equal criminalization of migrant people and indigenous communities." -- Tania Porcaro * Journal of Borderlands Studies *"I loved the big picture and provocative ideas that expanded my own understanding of topics I have studied for many years. . . . The book centers Indigenous perspectives to demonstrate not only the contributions Indigenous science has made to (or rather, been appropriated by) the military-industrial/border-security complex, but also the ways that Indigenous scholarship contributes to our understanding of this dynamic from a critical thinking perspective. The primary focus of the book is U.S. borders and Arizona features prominently therein, but the lessons go well beyond this geography as approaches to border security have become globalized." -- Kenneth D. Madsen * Indigenous Religious Traditions *"Unsettled Borders is a rich and skillful analysis of military discourse, settler technoscience, and ethnographic materials primarily devoted to events in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands, but with resonances across other settler colonial spaces (within and beyond the United States)." -- Iván Chaar López * Postcolonial Studies *Table of ContentsPreface. TimeSpaces of Dispossession to the Forging of Indigenous Relations with Land ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Tracking Footprints: Settler Surveillance across Unsettled Borders 1 1. “The Eyes of the Army”: Indian Scouts and the Rise of Military Innovation during the Apache Wars 29 2. Occupation on Sacred Land: Colliding Sovereignties on the Tohono O’odham Reservation 55 3. Automated Border Control: Criminalizing the “Hidden Intent” of Migrant/Native Embodiment 81 4. From the Eyes of the Bees: Biorobotic Border Security and the Resurgence of Bee Collectives in the Yucatán 104 Conclusion. Wild versus Sacred: The Ongoing Border War against Indigenous Peoples 139 Notes 153 Bibliography 185 Index 201

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Book SynopsisIn Scales of Resistance Maylei Blackwell narrates how Indigenous women’s activism in Mexico and its diaspora weaves in and between local, national, continental, and transborder scales. Drawing on more than seventy testimonials and twenty years of fieldwork spent accompanying Indigenous women activists, Blackwell focuses on how these activists navigate the blockages to their participation and transform exclusionary spaces into scales of resistance. Blackwell shows how activists in Mexico and those in the migrant stream that runs from Oaxaca into California redefined women’s roles in community decision-making. They did so by scaling down Indigenous autonomy to their own bodies, homes, and communities; grounding their political claims within Indigenous epistemologies and the gendered nature of social organization; and scaling up to regional, national, and continental contexts. This allowed them to place themselves at the heart of Indigenous resistance and autonomy, decoTrade Review"In Scales of Resistance, Blackwell rethinks scale beyond solely its colonial and masculinist forms by centering Indigenous women’s organizing and geographies. By highlighting the work that Indigenous women (sometimes migrants) do at varying scales, as well as the creation of new scales based on their readings of power in different places and their own cosmovisions, Blackwell’s book is an important corrective to scalar analyses that invisibilize marginalized actors." -- Rebekah Kartal * Antipode *"Overall, Scales of Resistance is an invaluable contribution to social science and humanities literature. Blackwell’s rigorous analyses and insightful observations provide amuch-needed account of the vital roles of Indigenous women’s agency and activism in the Americas and in what will always be their forever home. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- T. M. Montoya * Choice *"The strength of the theoretical argument lies in the interaction between the various case studies explored in the chapters, as well as in their interrelation among struggles, allowing for an exploration of the different scales of indigenous women’s organization and considering them as interconnected rather than separated by national or political borders. ... While the opening up of the concepts of scale and boundary remains a major theoretical contribution, [Scales of Resistance] also subtly showcases the strength of indigenous women’s movements and their repertoire of rich, diverse, and unique actions, constituting an equally important empirical contribution." -- Andreanne Brunet-Belanger * Journal of Borderlands Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Abbreviations xi Prelude. Walking Together: The Politics of Acompañamiento xv Introduction 1 1. The Multiscalar Practice of Autonomy in Mexico 41 2. Abiayala as Scale 96 3. Rebellion at the Roots 143 4. Transborder Geographies of Difference 193 5. Translocal Geographies of Indigeneity 230 Coda. The Subterranean Life Seeds 258 Notes 297 References 313 Index 349

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and obligation between human and nonhuman lives.Trade Review“Deborah Bird Rose created an expansive scholarly field underpinned by interconnections, the affirmation of life, and love and responsibility as analytics. Invited to such a challenging field, the stories in this book carefully labor across a heterogeneity of forms of life and nonlife to reshuffle biological, political, and historical boundaries and creatively open possibility for a plethora of interconnected differences, pragmatic boundaries without a center. Caring for the Earth as Country, this artfully crafted collection meets Rose’s most urgent demand: becoming a witness of death that asserts life through an ethical practice that is always already ecological.” -- Marisol de la Cadena, author of * Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds *"Rose’s thought is timely now more than ever. This collection is a testimony to the vitality of their work for the present and challenges ahead that will involve relearning to be one among lifescapes of other beings rather than a social atom." -- Christopher Blakley * Science as Culture *"I was provoked and challenged by the diversity of this collection. . . ." -- David Moore * Indigenous Religious Traditions *Table of ContentsWorlds of Kin: An Introduction / Thom Van Dooren and Matthew Chrulew 1 1. The Sociality of Birds: Reflections on Ontological Edge Effects / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 15 2. Loving the Difficult: Scotch Broom / Catriona Sandilands 33 3. Awakening to the Call of Others: What I Learned from Existential Ecology / Isabelle Stengers 53 4. Speculative Fabulations for Technoculture’s Generations: Taking Care of Unexpected Country / Donna J. Haraway 70 5. The Disappearing Snails of Hawaiʻi: Storytelling for a Time of Extinctions / Thom Van Dooren 94 6. Roadkill: Multispecies Mobility and Everyday Ecocide / Kate Rigby and Owain Jones 112 7. After Nature: Totemism Revisited / Stephen Muecke 135 8. Telling One’s Own Story in the Hearing of Buffalo: Liturgical Interventions from Beyond the Year Zero / James Hatley 149 9. Ending with the Wind, Crying the Dawn / Bawaka Country, including Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Kate Lloyd, Sarah Wright, Laklak Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr, and Djawundil Maymuru 174 10. Animality and the Life of the Spirit / Colin Dayan 187 11. Life Is a Woven Basket of Relations / Kate Wright 196 12. Afterword: Memories with Deborah Rose / Linda Payi Ford 218 Contributors 225 Index 229

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Book SynopsisLisa Uperesa charts the cultural, historical, and social dynamics that have made American football so central to Samoan culture.Trade Review"Uperesa’s book should not only appeal to anthropologists but also to general readers. She engagingly explains what football has come to mean to a whole range of Samoan players — in college programs and the NFL, as well as on youth and high school teams back home — and gives a compelling account of how dual systems of stratification, one based in Indigenous values and the other in capitalist imperatives, combine, for better and worse. . . . Readers interested in sports and culture in a transnational world will no doubt find Gridiron Capital engrossing." -- David Lipset * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals." -- J. A. Badics * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Fabled Futures and Gridiron Dreams 1 1. Malaga: Forging New Pathways in Sport and Beyond 23 2. Football, Tautua, and Faʻasāmoa 48 3. Producing the Gridiron Warrior 71 4. Gridiron Capital 103 5. “Faʻmālosi!”: Strength, Injury, and Sacrifice 123 Conclusion. Niu Futures 151 Glossary 155 Notes 159 Bibliography 185 Index 211

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Colonial Racial Capitalism demonstrate the co-constitution and entanglement of slavery and colonialism from the conquest of the New World through industrial capitalism to contemporary financial capitalism.Trade Review“Throughout the chapters of [Colonial Racial Capitalism] the authors demonstrate the numerous ways everyday people have refused to become subsumed by these oppressive relationships, resulting in a work that does not merely ‘recite the horrors’ of a colonial racial capitalism, but offers insights into alternative means of living and relating to one another.” -- Kendall Artz * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction / Susan Koshy, Lisa Marie Cacho, Jodi A. Byrd and Brian Jordan Jefferson 1 I. Accumulation: Development by Dispossession 1. The Corporation and the Tribe / Joanne Barker 33 2. “In the Constant Flux of Its Incessant Renewal”: The Social Reproduction of Racial Capitalism and Settler Colonial Entitlement / Alyosha Goldstein 60 3. The Racial Alchemy of Debt: Dispossession and Accumulation in Afterlives of Slavery / Cheryl I. Harris 88 II. Administration: The Open Secret of Colonial Racial Capitalist Violence 4. In Search of the Next El Dorado: Mining for Capital in a Frontier Market with Colonial Legacies / Kimberly Kay Hoang 131 5. “Don’t Arrest Me, Arrest the Police”: Policing as the Street Administration of Colonial Racial Capitalist Orders / Lisa Marie Cacho and Jodi Melamed 159 6. Policing Solidarity: Race, Violence, and the University of Puerto Rico / Marisol LeBrón 206 7. Programming Colonial Racial Capitalism: Encoding Human Value in Smart Cities / Brian Jordan Jefferson 232 III. Aesthetics: Reimagining the Sites of Cultural Memory 8. Nuclear Antipolitics and the Queer Art of Logistical Failure / Iyko Day 257 9. Erasing Empire: Remembering the Mexican-American War in Los Angeles / Laura Pulido 284 IV. Rehearsing for the Future 10. Racial Capitalism Now: A Conversation with Michael Dawson and Ruth Wilson Gilmore / Facilitated by Brian Jordan Jefferson and Jodi Melamed 311 Contributors 333 Index 337

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Book SynopsisIn Unsettled Borders Felicity Amaya Schaeffer examines the ongoing settler colonial war over the US-Mexico border from the perspective of Apache, Tohono O’odham, and Maya who fight to protect their sacred land. Schaeffer traces the scientific and technological development of militarized border surveillance across time and space from Spanish colonial lookout points in Arizona and Mexico to the Indian wars, when the US cavalry hired Native scouts to track Apache fleeing into Mexico, to the occupation of the Tohono O’odham reservation and the recent launch of robotic bee swarms. Labeled “Optics Valley,” Arizona builds on a global history of violent dispossession and containment of Native peoples and migrants by branding itself as a profitable hub for surveillance. Schaeffer reverses the logic of borders by turning to Indigenous sacredsciences: ancestral land-based practices that are critical to reversing the ecological and social violence of surveillance, exTrade Review“[Unsettled Borders] includes an impressively documented bibliography. The text ultimately succeeds in telling a story of violence against Indigenous peoples and their cultures, perpetrated in the name of border security, and documenting the use of surveillance technology, which has permanently altered the landscape. Recommended.” -- G. Christensen * Choice *"Unsettled Borders makes an outstanding contribution to replacing some of the missing pieces while incorporating neocolonialism and interethnic borders into state border studies. Its author, Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, builds a great basis for a problem that is gaining greater visibility, exposing an equal criminalization of migrant people and indigenous communities." -- Tania Porcaro * Journal of Borderlands Studies *"I loved the big picture and provocative ideas that expanded my own understanding of topics I have studied for many years. . . . The book centers Indigenous perspectives to demonstrate not only the contributions Indigenous science has made to (or rather, been appropriated by) the military-industrial/border-security complex, but also the ways that Indigenous scholarship contributes to our understanding of this dynamic from a critical thinking perspective. The primary focus of the book is U.S. borders and Arizona features prominently therein, but the lessons go well beyond this geography as approaches to border security have become globalized." -- Kenneth D. Madsen * Indigenous Religious Traditions *"Unsettled Borders is a rich and skillful analysis of military discourse, settler technoscience, and ethnographic materials primarily devoted to events in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands, but with resonances across other settler colonial spaces (within and beyond the United States)." -- Iván Chaar López * Postcolonial Studies *Table of ContentsPreface. TimeSpaces of Dispossession to the Forging of Indigenous Relations with Land ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Tracking Footprints: Settler Surveillance across Unsettled Borders 1 1. “The Eyes of the Army”: Indian Scouts and the Rise of Military Innovation during the Apache Wars 29 2. Occupation on Sacred Land: Colliding Sovereignties on the Tohono O’odham Reservation 55 3. Automated Border Control: Criminalizing the “Hidden Intent” of Migrant/Native Embodiment 81 4. From the Eyes of the Bees: Biorobotic Border Security and the Resurgence of Bee Collectives in the Yucatán 104 Conclusion. Wild versus Sacred: The Ongoing Border War against Indigenous Peoples 139 Notes 153 Bibliography 185 Index 201

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Book SynopsisIn Scales of Resistance Maylei Blackwell narrates how Indigenous women’s activism in Mexico and its diaspora weaves in and between local, national, continental, and transborder scales. Drawing on more than seventy testimonials and twenty years of fieldwork spent accompanying Indigenous women activists, Blackwell focuses on how these activists navigate the blockages to their participation and transform exclusionary spaces into scales of resistance. Blackwell shows how activists in Mexico and those in the migrant stream that runs from Oaxaca into California redefined women’s roles in community decision-making. They did so by scaling down Indigenous autonomy to their own bodies, homes, and communities; grounding their political claims within Indigenous epistemologies and the gendered nature of social organization; and scaling up to regional, national, and continental contexts. This allowed them to place themselves at the heart of Indigenous resistance and autonomy, decoTrade Review"In Scales of Resistance, Blackwell rethinks scale beyond solely its colonial and masculinist forms by centering Indigenous women’s organizing and geographies. By highlighting the work that Indigenous women (sometimes migrants) do at varying scales, as well as the creation of new scales based on their readings of power in different places and their own cosmovisions, Blackwell’s book is an important corrective to scalar analyses that invisibilize marginalized actors." -- Rebekah Kartal * Antipode *"Overall, Scales of Resistance is an invaluable contribution to social science and humanities literature. Blackwell’s rigorous analyses and insightful observations provide amuch-needed account of the vital roles of Indigenous women’s agency and activism in the Americas and in what will always be their forever home. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- T. M. Montoya * Choice *"The strength of the theoretical argument lies in the interaction between the various case studies explored in the chapters, as well as in their interrelation among struggles, allowing for an exploration of the different scales of indigenous women’s organization and considering them as interconnected rather than separated by national or political borders. ... While the opening up of the concepts of scale and boundary remains a major theoretical contribution, [Scales of Resistance] also subtly showcases the strength of indigenous women’s movements and their repertoire of rich, diverse, and unique actions, constituting an equally important empirical contribution." -- Andreanne Brunet-Belanger * Journal of Borderlands Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Abbreviations xi Prelude. Walking Together: The Politics of Acompañamiento xv Introduction 1 1. The Multiscalar Practice of Autonomy in Mexico 41 2. Abiayala as Scale 96 3. Rebellion at the Roots 143 4. Transborder Geographies of Difference 193 5. Translocal Geographies of Indigeneity 230 Coda. The Subterranean Life Seeds 258 Notes 297 References 313 Index 349

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Book SynopsisLisa Uperesa charts the cultural, historical, and social dynamics that have made American football so central to Samoan culture.Trade Review"Uperesa’s book should not only appeal to anthropologists but also to general readers. She engagingly explains what football has come to mean to a whole range of Samoan players — in college programs and the NFL, as well as on youth and high school teams back home — and gives a compelling account of how dual systems of stratification, one based in Indigenous values and the other in capitalist imperatives, combine, for better and worse. . . . Readers interested in sports and culture in a transnational world will no doubt find Gridiron Capital engrossing." -- David Lipset * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals." -- J. A. Badics * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Fabled Futures and Gridiron Dreams 1 1. Malaga: Forging New Pathways in Sport and Beyond 23 2. Football, Tautua, and Faʻasāmoa 48 3. Producing the Gridiron Warrior 71 4. Gridiron Capital 103 5. “Faʻmālosi!”: Strength, Injury, and Sacrifice 123 Conclusion. Niu Futures 151 Glossary 155 Notes 159 Bibliography 185 Index 211

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Book SynopsisLeanne Trapedo Sims examines the experiences of incarcerated Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women at the Women's Community Correctional Center, the only women's prison in the state of Hawaii.Trade Review“Well written and nicely theorized, Reckoning with Restorative Justice is an important project based on rigorous research, which adopts an intersectional lens in interrogating social justice failures in the contemporary carceral setting in Hawai‘i. As an innovative exploration of Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander women’s writing that has been neglected, this is original work that is much needed.” -- J. Kehaulani Kauanui, author of * Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism *“Reckoning with Restorative Justice is a complex and nuanced investigation of the tensions inherent in writing within a carceral setting and a reminder that even embedded within this complexity of challenges, the act of storytelling offers an intimate pathway to both personal insight and collective community witnessing as well as a significant step on a journey toward healing.” -- Lynden Harris, editor of * Right Here, Right Now: Life Stories from America’s Death Row *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix A Note on the Text xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: The American Gulag and Indigenous Incarceration in Hawai‘i 1 1. Pedagogy and Process 33 2. “Home”: Trauma and Desire 58 3. The Stage Away from the Page 79 4. Love Letters 112 5. Postrelease and Affective Writers 139 Epilogue: Palliative Praxis or Pathways to Transformation? 153 Appendix 165 Notes 167 Bibliography 197 Index 209

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Book SynopsisIn Haunting Biology Emma Kowal recounts the troubled history of Western biological studies of Indigenous Australians and asks how we now might see contemporary genomics, especially that conducted by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scientists. Kowal illustrates how the material persistence of samples over decades and centuries folds together the fates of different scientific methodologies. Blood, bones, hair, comparative anatomy, human biology, physiology, and anthropological genetics all haunt each other across time and space, together with the many racial theories they produced and sustained. The stories Kowal tells feature a variety of ghostly presences: a dead anatomist, a fetishized piece of hair hidden away in a war trunk, and an elusive white Indigenous person. By linking this history to contemporary genomics and twenty-first-century Indigeneity, Kowal outlines the fraught complexities, perils, and potentials of studying Indigenous biological difference in the twentyTrade Review“Resistances and refusals by bodies and spirits of Indigenous peoples continue to haunt and disrupt white settler bio-logics. Haunting Biology reveals settler colonial science as the white fellas’ desiring apparatus: generating meticulous inscriptions of blood, bone, hair, genomics, and metabolisms to try to make beguiling differences but repeatedly failing to capture lived Indigeneity. How, Emma Kowal asks, can all the ancestral ghosts troubling the white scientific machine be engaged with respectfully, not exorcised, in future biologies?” -- Warwick Anderson, author of * The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia *“Examining exemplary cases in the history of biological, physical anthropological, and medical research, Emma Kowal uniquely argues that all biological knowledge contains the possibility of being affected and facilitated by a problematic practice from distant places and times. She shows that the messy history of biological differences is not a history left behind, but one that lingers and haunts our current-day shiny laboratory science. It is this realization that prompts a much-needed evaluation of the history of anthropology.” -- Amade M’charek, author of * The Human Genome Diversity Project: An Ethnography of Scientific Practice *Table of ContentsA Note on Terminology xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Living with Ghosts 11 2. Blood, Bones, and the Ghosts of the Ancestors 33 3. A Century in the Life of an Aboriginal Hair Sample 67 4. Race and Nation: Aboriginal Whiteness and Settler Belonging 91 5. Indigenous Physiology: Metabolism, Cold Tolerance, and the Possibility of Human Hibernation 119 6. Spencer’s Double: The Decolonial Afterlife of a Postcolonial Museum Prop 143 Conclusion 167 Appendix 1. Dramatis Personae 173 Appendix 2. Timeline of Relevant Events 175 Notes 181 References 199 Index 235

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to this volume explore the profound and varying impacts of borders on Indigenous Peoples around the world and the ways they challenge and work around them.Trade Review“This insightful and important volume offers readers, teachers, scholars, and students a collection of essays that widen our understanding of the global phenomenon of Indigenous Peoples' politics. Indigenous Peoples and Borders is a singular, well-structured source for teaching and analyzing Indigenous studies through a comparative and global perspective. It will become a go-to book for the field.” -- Kevin Bruyneel, author of * Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States *“This volume tackles important and novel topics in view of the current neoliberal challenges faced by Indigenous communities worldwide, from human rights and genocide of Indigenous Peoples to the experiences of Indigenous women and children to sovereignty and nationhood. Indigenous Peoples and Borders will be very valuable for courses in Indigenous studies, political science, history, international studies, globalization, neoliberalism, and human rights.” -- Priscilla Settee, author of * Pimatisiwin: The Good Life, Global Indigenous Knowledge Systems *

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Book SynopsisWhat if we understood the idea of family as central to representing alternative forms of governance as expressions of racial deviance? In The Politics of Kinship, Mark Rifkin shows how ideologies of family, including notions of kinship, recast Indigenous and other forms of collective self-organization and self-determination as disruptive racial tendencies in need of state containment and intervention. Centering work in Indigenous studies, Rifkin illustrates how conceptions of family and race work together as part of ongoing efforts to regulate, assault, and efface other political orders. The book examines the history of anthropology and its resonances in contemporary queer scholarship, contemporary Indian policy from the 1970s onward, the legal history of family formation and privacy in the United States, and the association of blackness with criminality across US history. In this way, Rifkin seeks to open new possibilities for envisioning what kinds of relations, networks, andTrade Review“The Politics of Kinship is a new and exciting contribution to the field that raises productive questions about the relationship and distinction between family and kinship. As part of his larger project, developing a queer critique of settler colonialism, Mark Rifkin here homes in on discourses of family and kinship to examine how these conversations have often elided underlying questions of governance and sovereignty.” -- Manu Karuka, author of * Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad *“Distinctly and importantly drawing on Indigenous intellectual frames in order to rethink racialization in the United States, Mark Rifkin makes a powerful contribution to the robust body of scholarship on family, kinship, and race. The Politics of Kinship is a fantastic book.” -- Jennifer C. Nash, author of * How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Enfamilyment, Political Orders, and the Racializing Work of Scale 1 1. Kinship’s Past, Queer Interventions, and Indigenous Futures 43 2. Indian Domesticity, Setter Regulation, and the Limits of the Race/Politics Distinction 93 3. Marriage, Privacy, Sovereignty 145 4. Blackness, Criminaltiy, Governance 199 Coda: Inside/Outside State Forms 257 Notes 271 Bibliography 343 Index 379

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Book SynopsisLeanne Trapedo Sims examines the experiences of incarcerated Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women at the Women's Community Correctional Center, the only women's prison in the state of Hawaii.Trade Review“Well written and nicely theorized, Reckoning with Restorative Justice is an important project based on rigorous research, which adopts an intersectional lens in interrogating social justice failures in the contemporary carceral setting in Hawai‘i. As an innovative exploration of Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander women’s writing that has been neglected, this is original work that is much needed.” -- J. Kehaulani Kauanui, author of * Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism *“Reckoning with Restorative Justice is a complex and nuanced investigation of the tensions inherent in writing within a carceral setting and a reminder that even embedded within this complexity of challenges, the act of storytelling offers an intimate pathway to both personal insight and collective community witnessing as well as a significant step on a journey toward healing.” -- Lynden Harris, editor of * Right Here, Right Now: Life Stories from America’s Death Row *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix A Note on the Text xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: The American Gulag and Indigenous Incarceration in Hawai‘i 1 1. Pedagogy and Process 33 2. “Home”: Trauma and Desire 58 3. The Stage Away from the Page 79 4. Love Letters 112 5. Postrelease and Affective Writers 139 Epilogue: Palliative Praxis or Pathways to Transformation? 153 Appendix 165 Notes 167 Bibliography 197 Index 209

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Book SynopsisIn Haunting Biology Emma Kowal recounts the troubled history of Western biological studies of Indigenous Australians and asks how we now might see contemporary genomics, especially that conducted by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scientists. Kowal illustrates how the material persistence of samples over decades and centuries folds together the fates of different scientific methodologies. Blood, bones, hair, comparative anatomy, human biology, physiology, and anthropological genetics all haunt each other across time and space, together with the many racial theories they produced and sustained. The stories Kowal tells feature a variety of ghostly presences: a dead anatomist, a fetishized piece of hair hidden away in a war trunk, and an elusive white Indigenous person. By linking this history to contemporary genomics and twenty-first-century Indigeneity, Kowal outlines the fraught complexities, perils, and potentials of studying Indigenous biological difference in the twentyTrade Review“Resistances and refusals by bodies and spirits of Indigenous peoples continue to haunt and disrupt white settler bio-logics. Haunting Biology reveals settler colonial science as the white fellas’ desiring apparatus: generating meticulous inscriptions of blood, bone, hair, genomics, and metabolisms to try to make beguiling differences but repeatedly failing to capture lived Indigeneity. How, Emma Kowal asks, can all the ancestral ghosts troubling the white scientific machine be engaged with respectfully, not exorcised, in future biologies?” -- Warwick Anderson, author of * The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia *“Examining exemplary cases in the history of biological, physical anthropological, and medical research, Emma Kowal uniquely argues that all biological knowledge contains the possibility of being affected and facilitated by a problematic practice from distant places and times. She shows that the messy history of biological differences is not a history left behind, but one that lingers and haunts our current-day shiny laboratory science. It is this realization that prompts a much-needed evaluation of the history of anthropology.” -- Amade M’charek, author of * The Human Genome Diversity Project: An Ethnography of Scientific Practice *Table of ContentsA Note on Terminology xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Living with Ghosts 11 2. Blood, Bones, and the Ghosts of the Ancestors 33 3. A Century in the Life of an Aboriginal Hair Sample 67 4. Race and Nation: Aboriginal Whiteness and Settler Belonging 91 5. Indigenous Physiology: Metabolism, Cold Tolerance, and the Possibility of Human Hibernation 119 6. Spencer’s Double: The Decolonial Afterlife of a Postcolonial Museum Prop 143 Conclusion 167 Appendix 1. Dramatis Personae 173 Appendix 2. Timeline of Relevant Events 175 Notes 181 References 199 Index 235

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