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Book SynopsisAs Siobhan Senier researches the ways Indigenous Americans in New England have sustained and developed various literary and cultural traditions, she considers anew the overlapping notions of sovereignty and sustainability and concerns of social sustainability, culture, literature, the environment, and economics.
Trade Review“In this time of ecological devastation, it seems particularly important to bring ecocriticism to bear on Native American studies, both in terms of recovery work and theoretical understanding of the tie between ecology and sovereignty. The discussion of the ecological sustainability of genres like the novel is an important topic that I have not yet seen discussed in ecocriticism. Both terms are about sustaining, as Senier so aptly demonstrates, cultures and the earth itself. . . . Eloquent, astute, and crystal clear.”—Cari M. Carpenter, coeditor of
The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins’s Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864–1891“Both timely and vitally important. . . . The focus on New England Indigenous literatures and writers alone is a fresh approach to Native and Indigenous literary studies. In Senier’s skilled hands, this book goes even further in breaking new ground in all its adjacent fields, from the critical scholarship in the introductory chapter, the sustained focus on the entwined relationship between Indigenous sovereignty and sustainability, and the able discussion of genre, form, and community.”—Stephanie J. Fitzgerald, author of
Native Women and Land: Narratives of Dispossession and ResurgenceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. “We’re Still Here”: Wampanoag Timelines and the Stewardship of History
2. Tribal Periodicals: Stewards of Oral Tradition and Tribal Community
3. Novels of the Anthropocene: Stewards of Past, Present, and Future Relations
4. Sovereign Poetics and Sustainable Publishing: Cheryl Savageau and Bowman Books Acting in Stewardship
5. Indigenous New England Online: Network Sovereignty and Digital Stewardship
Notes
Works Cited
Index
