Full Description
Responding to the recent indigenous turn in American studies, the essays in this volume inform discussion about indigeneity, race, gender, modernity, nation, state power, and globalization in interdisciplinary and broadly comparative global ways. Organized into three thematic sections-Spaces of the Pacific, "Unexpected Indigenous" Modernity, and Nation and Nation-State- Alternative Contact reveals how Native American studies and empowerment movements in the 1960s and 1970s decentered paradigms of Native American-European "first contact." Among other kinds of contact, the contributors also imagine alternative connections between indigenous and American studies. The subject of United States military and government hegemony has long overshadowed discussions of contact with peoples of other origins. The articles in this volume explore transnational and cross-ethnic exchanges among indigenous peoples of the Americas, including the Caribbean and Pacific Islands. Such moments of alternative contact complicate and enrich our understanding of the links between sovereignty, racial formation, and U.S. colonial and imperial projects.
Ultimately, Alternative Contact theorizes a more dynamic indigeneity that articulates new or overlooked connections among peoples, histories, cultures, and critical discourses within a global context.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Spaces of the Pacific
Chapter 1. Attacking Trust: Hawai'i as a Crossroads and Kamehameha Schools in the Crosshairs
Chapter 2. Kēwaikaliko's Benocide: Reversing the Imperial Gaze of Rice v. Cayetano and its Legal Progeny
Chapter 3. Indigeneity in the Diaspora: The Case of Native Hawaiians at Iosepa, Utah
Chapter 4. Bridging Indigenous and Immigrant Struggles: A Case Study of American Sāmoa
Chapter 5. Experimental Encounters: Filipino and Hawaiian Bodies in the U.S. Imperial Invention of Odontoclasia, 1928-1946
Chapter 6. Los Indios Bravos: The Filipino/American Lyric and the Cosmopoetics of Comparative Indigeneity
Part II: "Unexpected" Indigenous Modernity
Chapter 7. Decolonization in Unexpected Places: Native Evangelicalism and the Rearticulation of Mission
Chapter 8. Transnational Indigenous Exchange: Rethinking Global Interactions of Indigenous Peoples at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition
Chapter 9. "Sioux Yells" in the Dawes Era: Lakota "Indian Play," the Wild West, and the Literatures of Luther Standing Bear
Chapter 10. Mexican Indigenismo, Choctaw Self-Determination, and Todd Downing's Detective Novels
Chapter 11. Maori Cowboys, Maori Indians
Chapter 12. A Dying West? Reimagining the Frontier in Frank Matsura's Photography, 1903-1913
Part III: Nation and Nation-State
Chapter 13. Between Dangerous Extremes: Victimization, Ultranationalism, and Identity Performance in Gerald Vizenor's Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57
Chapter 14. Toward a U.S.-China Comparative Critique: Indigenous Rights and National Expansion in Alex Kuo's Panda Diaries
Chapter 15. "Sowing Death in Our Women's Wombs": Modernization and Indigenous Nationalism in the 1960s Peace Corps and Jorge Sanjinés' Yawar Mallku
Contributors
Index
