Mark my words : Native women mapping our Nations /
Dominant history would have us believe that colonialism belongs to a previous era that has long come to an end. But as Native people become mobile, reservation lands become overcrowded and the state seeks to enforce means of containment, closing its borders to incoming, often Indigenous, immigrants....
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | First peoples (2010)
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | Dominant history would have us believe that colonialism belongs to a previous era that has long come to an end. But as Native people become mobile, reservation lands become overcrowded and the state seeks to enforce means of containment, closing its borders to incoming, often Indigenous, immigrants. The author traces settler colonialism as an enduring form of gendered spatial violence, demonstrating how it persists in the contemporary context of neoliberal globalization. The book argues that it is vital to refocus the efforts of Native nations beyond replicating settler models of territory, jurisdiction, and race. Through an examination of twentieth-century Native women's poetry and prose, the author illuminates how these works can serve to remap settler geographies and center Native knowledges. She positions Native women as pivotal to how our nations, both tribal and nontribal, have been imagined and mapped, and how these women play an ongoing role in decolonization. The author also provides close readings of literary texts, including those of E. Pauline Johnson, Esther Belin, Joy Harjo, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Heid Erdrich. In addition, she places these works in the framework of U.S. and Canadian Indian law and policy. Her charting of women's struggles to define themselves and their communities reveals the significant power in all of our stories.--description from publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (245 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-233) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781461939658 1461939658 9781452939353 1452939357 9781452948218 1452948216 |