Full Description
In contrast to past studies that focus narrowly on war and massacre, treat Native peoples as victims, and consign violence safely to the past, this interdisciplinary collection of essays opens up important new perspectives. While recognizing the long history of genocidal violence against Indigenous peoples, the contributors emphasize the agency of individuals and communities in genocide's aftermath and provide historical and contemporary examples of activism, resistance, identity formation, historical memory, resilience, and healing. The collection also expands the scope of violence by examining the eyewitness testimony of women and children who survived violence, the role of Indigenous self-determination and governance in inciting violence against women, and settler colonialism's promotion of cultural erasure and environmental destruction.By including contributions on Indigenous peoples in the United States, Canada, the Pacific, Greenland, SÁpmi, and Latin America, the volume breaks down nation-state and European imperial boundaries to show the value of global Indigenous frameworks. Connecting the past to the present, this book confronts violence as an ongoing problem and identifies projects that mitigate and push back against it.
Contents
Introduction, Susan Sleeper-Smith, Jeffrey Ostler, Joshua L. Reid
Section I: Beyond War and Massacre: The Nature of Violence
1. Narrating Stories of Domestic Violence in Indian Country, Brenda J. Child
2. Genealogies of Violence and Animations of Indigenous Law in Louise Erdrich's LaRose, Beth H. Piatote
3. Holding Ourselves Responsible: Dismantling the Binary between Violence Against Women and Self-Determination in Indigenous Communities, Rauna Kuokkanen
Section II: The Violence of Cultural Erasure
4. Burl Bowls and Grinding Stones: Indigenous Materialities and Memorialization after King Philip's War, Christine M. DeLucia
5. Burning the Gods: Mana, Iconoclasm, and Christianity in Oceania, Kealani Cook
Section III: Strategies of Resistance
6. Unsifted: Hawaiian Indian Coalescence in Central California, 1864-1970, Ashley Riley Sousa
7. From 'Iroquois Cruelty' to the Mohawk Warrior Society: Stereotyping and the Strategic Uses of a Reputation for Violence, Scott Manning Stevens
8. Situating the Accountability for Canada's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls with 'White Boys' in Elle-MÁijÁ Tailfeathers's A Red Girl's Reasoning, Lucinda Rasmussen
Section IV: New Approaches to Indigenous Activism
9. Pathways Toward Justice: Walking as Decolonial Resistance, Amber Hickey
10. Singing Resilience: Tanya Tagaq and Indigenous Women's Leadership Counteracting Gender-Based Violence, Liz Przybylski
11. Section V: Community and Identity Formation in the Aftermath of State Violence
12. Indigenous Child Removal: Narratives of Violence, Trauma, and Survivance, Amy Lonetree
13. 'A World Where Many Worlds Fit': Zapatismo and the Reconstruction of a Mayan World in Chiapas, Silvia Soto
14. 'They Alone Should Rule': Violence, Revolution, and the Politics of Community and State Formation in Bolivia, Forrest Hylton
15. Weaving Strategies of Survival: Maya Women's Activism in the Diaspora, Alicia Ivonne Estrada
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