What does it mean to say that Native peoples exist in the present?
In Beyond Settler Time Mark Rifkin investigates the dangers of
seeking to include Indigenous peoples within settler temporal
frameworks. Claims that Native peoples should be recognized as
coeval with Euro-Americans, Rifkin argues, implicitly treat
dominant non-native ideologies and institutions as the basis for
defining time itself. How, though, can Native peoples be understood
as dynamic and changing while also not assuming that they belong to
a present inherently shared with non-natives? Drawing on physics,
phenomenology, queer studies, and postcolonial theory, Rifkin
develops the concept of "settler time" to address how Native
peoples are both consigned to the past and inserted into the
present in ways that normalize non-native histories, geographies,
and expectations. Through analysis of various kinds of texts,
including government documents, film, fiction, and autobiography,
he explores how Native experiences of time exceed and defy such
settler impositions. In underscoring the existence of multiple
temporalities, Rifkin illustrates how time plays a crucial role in
Indigenous peoples' expressions of sovereignty and struggles for
self-determination.
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