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Violence and indigenous communities : confronting the past and engaging the present
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"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 genocid...
"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.
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- edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith, Jeffrey Ostler, and Joshua L Reid
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- English
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- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2021
- ©2021
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- x, 333 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780810142961, 0810142961, 9780810142978, 081014297X, 9780810142985
- OCLC
- on1192303130
- 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.
- Introduction / Susan Sleeper-Smith, Jeffrey Ostler, and Joshua L. Reid -- Beyond War and Massacre : The Nature of Violence. 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 -- The Violence of Cultural Erasure. 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 -- Strategies of Resistance. 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 -- New Approaches to Indigenous Activism. 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 -- Community and Identity Formation in the Aftermath of State Violence. 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