"A lesson in how to practice recognizing the fundamental truth that
every inch of the Americas is Indigenous territory" -Robert
Warrior, from the Foreword Many people learn about Indigenous
politics only through the most controversial and confrontational
news: the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's efforts to block the Dakota
Access Pipeline, for instance, or the battle to protect Bears Ears
National Monument in Utah, a site sacred to Native peoples. But
most Indigenous activism remains unseen in the mainstream-and so,
of course, does its significance. J. Kehaulani Kauanui set out to
change that with her radio program Indigenous Politics. Issue by
issue, she interviewed people who talked candidly and in an
engaging way about how settler colonialism depends on erasing
Native peoples and about how Native peoples can and do resist.
Collected here, these conversations speak with clear and compelling
voices about a range of Indigenous politics that shape everyday
life. Land desecration, treaty rights, political status, cultural
revitalization: these are among the themes taken up by a broad
cross-section of interviewees from across the United States and
from Canada, Mexico, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Australia, and New
Zealand. Some speak from the thick of political action, some from a
historical perspective, others from the reaches of Indigenous
culture near and far. Writers, like Comanche Paul Chaat Smith,
author of Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong, expand on
their work-about gaming and sovereignty, for example, or protecting
Native graves, the reclamation of land, or the erasure of Indian
identity. These conversations both inform and engage at a moment
when their messages could not be more urgent. Contributors: Jessie
Little Doe Baird (Mashpee Wampanoag), Omar Barghouti, Lisa Brooks
(Abenaki), Kathleen A. Brown-Perez (Brothertown Indian Nation),
Margaret "Marge" Bruchac (Abenaki), Jessica Cattelino, David
Cornsilk (Cherokee Nation), Sarah Deer (Muskogee Creek Nation),
Philip J. Deloria (Dakota), Tonya Gonnella Frichner (Onondaga
Nation), Hone Harawira (Ngapuhi Nui Tonu), Suzan Shown Harjo
(Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee), Rashid Khalidi, Winona LaDuke
(White Earth Ojibwe), Maria LaHood, James Luna (Luiseno), Aileen
Moreton-Robinson (Quandamooka), Chief Mutawi Mutahash (Many Hearts)
Marilynn "Lynn" Malerba (Mohegan), Steven Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape),
Jean M. O'Brien (White Earth Ojibwe), Jonathan Kamakawiwo'ole
Osorio (Kanaka Maoli), Steven Salaita, Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche),
Circe Sturm (Mississippi Choctaw descendant), Margo Tamez (Lipan
Apache), Chief Richard Velky (Schaghticoke), Patrick Wolfe.
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