Violence and indigenous communities : confronting the past and engaging the present / edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith, Jeffrey Ostler, and Joshua L Reid.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sleeper-Smith, Susan, editor.

Ostler, Jeffrey, editor.

Reid, Joshua L., editor.

Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

Series:

Critical insurgencies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Violence against--America--Congresses.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--America--Social conditions--Congresses.

Indigenous women--Violence against--America--Congresses.

Indigenous women.

Indigenous peoples--Social conditions.

Indigenous peoples--Violence against.

Social conditions.

America.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 333 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"This interdisciplinary collection of essays recognizes a long history of genocidal violence against Indigenous peoples while emphasizing the agency of Native individuals and communities in genocide's aftermath. Contributors provide historical and contemporary examples of activism, resistance, identity formation, historical memory, resilience, survival, and healing"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 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

pt. 2 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

pt. 3 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-Maija Tailfeathers's A Red Girl's Reasoning / Lucinda Rasmussen

pt. 4 New Approaches to Indigenous Activism

9. Pathways toward Justice: Walking as Decolonial Resistance / Amber Hichey

10. Singing Resilience: Tanya Tagaq and Indigenous Women's Leadership Counteracting Gender-Based Violence / Liz Przybylski

11. Mni Sose and the Oceti Sakowin: Refusing Death on the Missouri River / Nick Estes

pt. 5 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 Maya 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 lvonne Estrada.

Notes:

Selected papers from a symposium held at the Newberry Library's D'Arcy McNickle Center in Chicago in May 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

ISBN:

9780810142961

0810142961

9780810142978

081014297X

OCLC:

1192303130

Publisher Number:

99987490834