Mohawk interruptus : political life across the borders of settler states / Audra Simpson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simpson, Audra, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mohawk Indians--Québec (Province)--Kahnawake Indian Reserve--Ethnic identity.

Mohawk Indians.

Mohawk Indians--Québec (Province)--Kahnawake Indian Reserve--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 pages)

Place of Publication:

Duke University Press : Durham ; London, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology. Combining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawà:ke, a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec, Audra Simpson examines their struggles to articulate and maintain political sovereignty through centuries of settler colonialism. The Kahnawà:ke Mohawks are part of the Haudenosaunee or Iroquois Confederacy. Like many Iroquois peoples, they insist on the integrity of Haudenosaunee governance and refuse American or Canadian citizenship. Audra Sim

Contents:

Indigenous interruptions: Mohawk nationhood, citizenship, and the state

A brief history of land, meaning, and membership in Iroquoia and Kahnawke

Constructing Kahnawke as an "out-of-the-way" place: Ely S. Parker

Lewis Henry Morgan, and the writing of the Iroquois confederacy

Ethnographic refusal

Borders, cigarettes, and sovereignty

The gender of the flint: Mohawk nationhood and citizenship in the face of empire

Mohawk interruptus.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822376781

0822376784

OCLC:

1178919738