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Indigenous Borderlands - Native Agency, Resilience, and Power in the Americas (Paperback)
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Pervasive myths of European domination and indigenous submission in
the Americas receive an overdue corrective in this far-reaching
revisionary work. Despite initial upheavals caused by the European
intrusion, Native people often thrived after contact, preserving
their sovereignty, territory, and culture and shaping indigenous
borderlands across the hemisphere. Borderlands, in this context,
are spaces where diverse populations interact, cross-cultural
exchanges are frequent and consequential, and no polity or
community holds dominion. Within the indigenous borderlands of the
Americas, as this volume shows, Native peoples exercised
considerable power, often retaining control of the land, and
remaining paramount agents of historical transformation after the
European incursion. Conversely, European conquest and colonialism
were typically slow and incomplete, as the newcomers struggled to
assert their authority and implement policies designed to subjugate
Native societies and change their beliefs and practices. Indigenous
Borderlands covers a wide chronological and geographical span, from
the sixteenth-century U.S. South to twentieth-century Bolivia, and
gathers leading scholars from the United States and Latin America.
Drawing on previously untapped or underutilized primary sources,
the original essays in this volume document the resilience and
relative success of indigenous communities commonly and wrongly
thought to have been subordinated by colonial forces, or even
vanished, as well as the persistence of indigenous borderlands
within territories claimed by people of European descent. Indeed,
numerous indigenous groups remain culturally distinct and
politically autonomous. Hemispheric in its scope, unique in its
approach, this work significantly recasts our understanding of the
important roles played by Native agents in constructing indigenous
borderlands in the era of European imperialism. Chapters 5, 6, 8,
and 9 are published with generous support from the Americas
Research Network.
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