Transnational Indians in the North American West / edited by Clarissa Confer, Andrae Marak, and Laura Tuennerman ; foreword by Sterling Evans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Confer, Clarissa W., 1965- editor.

Marak, Andrae M. (Andrae Micheal), editor.

Tuennerman, Laura, 1966- editor.

Evans, Sterling, 1959- writer of foreword.

Series:

Connecting the greater west series.

Connecting the Greater West Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America.

Transnationalism--North America.

Transnationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station, [Texas] : Texas A&M University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of eleven original essays goes beyond traditional, border-driven studies to place the histories of Native Americans, indigenous peoples, and First Nation peoples in a larger context than merely that of the dominant nation. As Transnational Indians in the North American West shows, transnationalism can be expressed in various ways. To some it can be based on dependency, so that the history of the indigenous people of the American Southwest can only be understood in the larger context of Mexico and Central America. Others focus on the importance of movement between Indian and non-Indian worlds as Indians left their (reserved) lands to work, hunt, fish, gather, pursue legal cases, or seek out education, to name but a few examples. Conversely, even natives who remained on reserved lands were nonetheless transnational inasmuch as the reserves did not fully "belong" to them but were administered by a nation-state. Boundaries that scholars once viewed as impermeable, it turns out, can be quite porous. This book stands to be an important contribution to the scholarship that is increasingly breaking free of old boundaries.

Contents:

Introduction: Transnational Indians of the North American West / Andrae Marak and Gary Van Valen

The indigenous Southwest as Mesoamerica's northern frontier: Mexico, harmony, and the Quincunx / W. Dirk Raat

"Forced transnationalism" among indigenous people across borderlands: Mexico and the United States / Maria Cristina Manzano-Munguia

In search of Juan Antonio Ignacio Baca, a Pueblo participant in the shifting politics of nineteenth-century New Mexico / Gary Van Valen

"Indios barbaros" and the making of Mexican colonization policy after independence: from conquest to colonization / Jose Angel Hernandez

Property rights in the transition of Canadian prairie Indians onto reserves / Tony Ward

Two tales of the conquest of Seriland: Pascual Encinas, Roberto Thomson, the White Chief and the Seri Indians / Andrae Marak

"The stubborn disposition of these Indians": survival and subsistence on the upper Columbia River, 1820-1880 / Ian Stacy

Shifting borders: Indian territory in crisis / Clarissa W. Confer

Struggles for place and space: Kickapoo traces from the Midwest to Mexico / Kristin Hoganson

A shared past: Washoe Indians and the Dawes Act of 1887 / Matthew Stephen Makley

Indigenous resistance and racist schooling on the borders of empires: Coast Salish cultural survival / Michael Marker

Indigenous transnationalism and Alberta First Nations gaming: political compromise or negotiated economic advantage? / Yale D. Belanger.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62349-327-7

OCLC:

923337766