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

Other author/creatorSleeper-Smith, Susan, editor.
Other author/creatorOstler, Jeffrey, editor.
Other author/creatorReid, Joshua L., editor.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2021.
Copyright Notice ©2021
Descriptionx, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Critical insurgencies
Critical insurgencies. ^A1388490
Contents Introduction / Susan Sleeper-Smith, Jeffrey Ostler, and Joshua L. Reid -- Narrating Stories of Domestic Violence in Indian Country / Brenda J. Child -- Genealogies of Violence and Animations of Indigenous Law in Louise Erdrich's LaRose / Beth H. Piatote -- Holding Ourselves Responsible: Dismantling the Binary between Violence against Women and Self-Determination in Indigenous Communities / Rauna Kuokkanen -- Burl Bowls and Grinding Stones: Indigenous Materialities and Memorialization after King Philip's War / Christine M. DeLucia -- Burning the Gods: Mana, Iconoclasm, and Christianity in Oceania / Kealani Cook -- Unsifted: Hawaiian Indian Coalescence in Central California, 1864-1970 / -- Ashley Riley Sousa -- From "Iroquois Cruelty" to the Mohawk Warrior Society: Stereotyping and the Strategic Uses of a Reputation for Violence / Scott Manning Stevens -- 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 -- Pathways toward Justice: Walking as Decolonial Resistance / Amber Hickey -- Singing Resilience: Tanya Tagaq and Indigenous Women's Leadership Counteracting Gender-Based Violence / Liz Przybylski -- Mni Sose and the Oceti Sakowin: Refusing Death on the Missouri River / Nick Estes -- Indigenous Child Removal: Narratives of Violence, Trauma, and Survivance / -- Amy Lonetree -- "A World Where Many Worlds Fit": Zapatismo and the Reconstruction of a Maya World in Chiapas / Silvia Soto -- "They Alone Should Rule": Violence, Revolution, and the Politics of Community and State Formation in Bolivia / Forrest Hylton -- Weaving Strategies of Survival: Maya Women's Activism in the Diaspora / Alicia Ivonne Estrada.
Abstract "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.
General noteSelected papers from a symposium held at the Newberry Library's D'Arcy McNickle Center in Chicago in May 2017.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formConference papers and proceedings.
LCCN 2020038424
ISBN9780810142961
ISBN0810142961 paperback
ISBN9780810142978 hardcover
ISBN081014297X hardcover
ISBNelectronic book

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