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More than two dozen stories of Indigenous resistance to the
privatization and allotment of Indigenous lands Land privatization
has been a longstanding and ongoing settler colonial process
separating Indigenous peoples from their traditional homelands,
with devastating consequences. Allotment Stories delves into this
conflict, creating a complex conversation out of narratives of
Indigenous communities resisting allotment and other dispossessive
land schemes. From the use of homesteading by nineteenth-century
Anishinaabe women to maintain their independence to the role that
roads have played in expropriating Guam's Indigenous heritage to
the links between land loss and genocide in California, Allotment
Stories collects more than two dozen chronicles of white
imperialism and Indigenous resistance. Ranging from the historical
to the contemporary and grappling with Indigenous land struggles
around the globe, these narratives showcase both scholarly and
creative forms of expression, constructing a multifaceted book of
diverse disciplinary perspectives. Allotment Stories highlights how
Indigenous peoples have consistently used creativity to sustain
collective ties, kinship relations, and cultural commitments in the
face of privatization. At once informing readers while provoking
them toward further research into Indigenous resilience, this
collection pieces back together some of what the forces of
allotment have tried to tear apart. Contributors: Jennifer Adese, U
of Toronto Mississauga; Megan Baker, U of California, Los Angeles;
William Bauer Jr., U of Nevada, Las Vegas; Christine Taitano
DeLisle, U of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Vicente M. Diaz, U of
Minnesota-Twin Cities; Sarah Biscarra Dilley, U of California,
Davis; Marilyn Dumont, U of Alberta; Munir Fakher Eldin, Birzeit U,
Palestine; Nick Estes, U of New Mexico; Pauliina Feodoroff; Susan
E. Gray, Arizona State U; J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Wesleyan U; Rauna
Kuokkanen, U of Lapland and U of Toronto; Sheryl R. Lightfoot, U of
British Columbia; Kelly McDonough, U of Texas at Austin; Ruby
Hansen Murray; Tero Mustonen, U of Eastern Finland; Darren O'Toole,
U of Ottawa; Shiri Pasternak, Ryerson U; Dione Payne, Te Whare
Wanaka o Aoraki-Lincoln U; Joseph M. Pierce, Stony Brook U; Khal
Schneider, California State U, Sacramento; Argelia Segovia Liga,
Colegio de Michoacan; Leanne Betasamosake Simpson; Jameson R.
Sweet, Rutgers U; Michael P. Taylor, Brigham Young U; Candessa
Tehee, Northeastern State U; Benjamin Hugh Velaise, Google American
Indian Network.
More than two dozen stories of Indigenous resistance to the
privatization and allotment of Indigenous lands Land privatization
has been a longstanding and ongoing settler colonial process
separating Indigenous peoples from their traditional homelands,
with devastating consequences. Allotment Stories delves into this
conflict, creating a complex conversation out of narratives of
Indigenous communities resisting allotment and other dispossessive
land schemes. From the use of homesteading by nineteenth-century
Anishinaabe women to maintain their independence to the role that
roads have played in expropriating Guam's Indigenous heritage to
the links between land loss and genocide in California, Allotment
Stories collects more than two dozen chronicles of white
imperialism and Indigenous resistance. Ranging from the historical
to the contemporary and grappling with Indigenous land struggles
around the globe, these narratives showcase both scholarly and
creative forms of expression, constructing a multifaceted book of
diverse disciplinary perspectives. Allotment Stories highlights how
Indigenous peoples have consistently used creativity to sustain
collective ties, kinship relations, and cultural commitments in the
face of privatization. At once informing readers while provoking
them toward further research into Indigenous resilience, this
collection pieces back together some of what the forces of
allotment have tried to tear apart. Contributors: Jennifer Adese, U
of Toronto Mississauga; Megan Baker, U of California, Los Angeles;
William Bauer Jr., U of Nevada, Las Vegas; Christine Taitano
DeLisle, U of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Vicente M. Diaz, U of
Minnesota-Twin Cities; Sarah Biscarra Dilley, U of California,
Davis; Marilyn Dumont, U of Alberta; Munir Fakher Eldin, Birzeit U,
Palestine; Nick Estes, U of New Mexico; Pauliina Feodoroff; Susan
E. Gray, Arizona State U; J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Wesleyan U; Rauna
Kuokkanen, U of Lapland and U of Toronto; Sheryl R. Lightfoot, U of
British Columbia; Kelly McDonough, U of Texas at Austin; Ruby
Hansen Murray; Tero Mustonen, U of Eastern Finland; Darren O'Toole,
U of Ottawa; Shiri Pasternak, Ryerson U; Dione Payne, Te Whare
Wanaka o Aoraki-Lincoln U; Joseph M. Pierce, Stony Brook U; Khal
Schneider, California State U, Sacramento; Argelia Segovia Liga,
Colegio de Michoacan; Leanne Betasamosake Simpson; Jameson R.
Sweet, Rutgers U; Michael P. Taylor, Brigham Young U; Candessa
Tehee, Northeastern State U; Benjamin Hugh Velaise, Google American
Indian Network.
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Daniel Heath Justice
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Masked bandits of the night, raiders of farm crops and rubbish
bins, raccoons are notorious for their indifference to human
property and propriety, yet they are also admired for their
intelligence, dexterity and determination. Raccoons have also
thoroughly adapted to human-dominated environments; they are
thriving in numbers greater than at any point of their evolutionary
history... including in new habitats. Raccoon surveys the natural
and cultural history of this opportunistic omnivore, tracing its
biological evolution, social significance, and image in a range of
media and political contexts. From intergalactic misanthropes and
despoilers of ancient temples to coveted hunting quarry,
unpredictable pet, and symbols of wilderness and racial stereotype
alike, Raccoon offers a lively consideration of this misunderstood
outlaw species.
Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part
cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous
Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary
expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of
Indigenous peoples today. In considering the connections between
literature and lived experience, this book contemplates four key
questions at the heart of Indigenous kinship traditions: How do we
learn to be human? How do we become good relatives? How do we
become good ancestors? How do we learn to live together? Blending
personal narrative and broader historical and cultural analysis
with close readings of key creative and critical texts, Justice
argues that Indigenous writers engage with these questions in part
to challenge settler-colonial policies and practices that have
targeted Indigenous connections to land, history, family, and self.
More importantly, Indigenous writers imaginatively engage the many
ways that communities and individuals have sought to nurture these
relationships and project them into the future. This provocative
volume challenges readers to critically consider and rethink their
assumptions about Indigenous literature, history, and politics
while never forgetting the emotional connections of our shared
humanity and the power of story to effect personal and social
change. Written with a generalist reader firmly in mind, but
addressing issues of interest to specialists in the field, this
book welcomes new audiences to Indigenous literary studies while
offering more seasoned readers a renewed appreciation for these
transformative literary traditions.
What do we know of masculinities in non-patriarchal societies?
Indigenous peoples of the Americas and beyond come from traditions
of gender equity, complementarity, and the sacred feminine,
concepts that were unimaginable and shocking to Euro-western
peoples at contact. Indigenous Men and Masculinities, edited by Kim
Anderson and Robert Alexander Innes, brings together prominent
thinkers to explore the meaning of masculinities and being a man
within such traditions, further examining the colonial disruption
and imposition of patriarchy on Indigenous men. Building on
Indigenous knowledge systems, Indigenous feminism, and queer
theory, the sixteen essays by scholars and activists from Canada,
the U.S., and New Zealand open pathways for the nascent field of
Indigenous masculinities. The authors explore subjects of
representation through art and literature, as well as Indigenous
masculinities in sport, prisons, and gangs. Indigenous Men and
Masculinities highlights voices of Indigenous male writers,
traditional knowledge keepers, ex-gang members, war veterans,
fathers, youth, two-spirited people, and Indigenous men working to
end violence against women. It offers a refreshing vision toward
equitable societies that celebrate healthy and diverse
masculinities.
Over the course of the last twenty years, Native American and
Indigenous American literary studies has experienced a dramatic
shift from a critical focus on identity and authenticity to the
intellectual, cultural, political, historical, and tribal nation
contexts from which these Indigenous literatures emerge. The Oxford
Handbook of Indigenous American Literature reflects on these
changes and provides a complete overview of the current state of
the field. The Handbook's forty-three essays, organized into four
sections, cover oral traditions, poetry, drama, non-fiction,
fiction, and other forms of Indigenous American writing from the
seventeenth through the twenty-first century. Part I attends to
literary histories across a range of communities, providing, for
example, analyses of Inuit, Chicana/o, Anishinaabe, and Metis
literary practices. Part II draws on earlier disciplinary and
historical contexts to focus on specific genres, as authors discuss
Indigenous non-fiction, emergent trans-Indigenous autobiography,
Mexicanoh and Spanish poetry, Native drama in the U.S. and Canada,
and even a new Indigenous children's literature canon. The third
section delves into contemporary modes of critical inquiry to
expound on politics of place, comparative Indigenism,
trans-Indigenism, Native rhetoric, and the power of Indigenous
writing to communities of readers. A final section thoroughly
explores the geographical breadth and expanded definition of
Indigenous American through detailed accounts of literature from
Indian Territory, the Red Atlantic, the far North, Yucatan, Amerika
Samoa, and Francophone Quebec. Together, the volume is the most
comprehensive and expansive critical handbook of Indigenous
American literatures published to date. It is the first to fully
take into account the last twenty years of recovery and
scholarship, and the first to most significantly address the
diverse range of texts, secondary archives, writing traditions,
literary histories, geographic and political contexts, and critical
discourses in the field.
Taking fantasy literature beyond the stereotypes, Daniel Heath
Justice’s acclaimed Thorn and Thunder novels are set in a world
resembling eighteenth-century North America. The original trilogy
is available here for the first time as a fully revised one-volume
novel. The story of the struggle for the green world of the
Everland, home of the forest-dwelling Kyn, is an adventure tale
that bends genre and gender.
This collectively authored volume celebrates a group of Native
critics performing community in a lively, rigorous, sometimes
contentious dialogue that challenges the aesthetics of individual
literary representation.Janice Acoose infuses a Cree reading of
Canadian Cree literature with a creative turn to Cree language;
Lisa Brooks looks at eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century
Native writers and discovers little-known networks among them; Tol
Foster argues for a regional approach to Native studies that can
include unlikely subjects such as Will Rogers; LeAnne Howe creates
a fictional character, Embarrassed Grief, whose problematic
authenticity opens up literary debates; Daniel Heath Justice takes
on two prominent critics who see mixed-blood identities differently
than he does in relation to kinship; Phillip Carroll Morgan
uncovers written Choctaw literary criticism from the 1830s on the
subject of oral performance; Kimberly Roppolo advocates an
intertribal rhetoric that can form a linguistic foundation for
criticism. Cheryl Suzack situates feminist theories within Native
culture with an eye to applying them to subjugated groups across
Indian Country; Christopher B. Teuton organizes Native literary
criticism into three modes based on community awareness; Sean
Teuton opens up new sites for literary performance inside prisons
with Native inmates; Robert Warrior wants literary analysis to
consider the challenges of eroticism; Craig S. Womack introduces
the book by historicizing book-length Native-authored criticism
published between 1986 and 1997, and he concludes the volume with
an essay on theorizing experience. Reasoning Together proposes
nothing less than a paradigm shift in American Indian literary
criticism, closing the gap between theory and activism by situating
Native literature in real-life experiences and tribal histories. It
is an accessible collection that will suit a wide range of courses
- and will educate and energize anyone engaged in criticism of
Native literature.
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