Native Diasporas

Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas

Gregory D. Smithers, Brooke N. Newman

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780803233638
• eBook ISBN: 9780803255302
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: Social Sciences

The arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indigenous lifeways, and the effects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human trafficking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman have gathered the work of leading scholars, including Bill Anthes, Duane Champagne, Daniel Cobb, Donald Fixico, and Joy Porter, among others, in examining an expansive range of Native peoples and the extent of their influences through reaggregation. These diverse and wide-ranging essays uncover indigenous understandings of self-identification, community, and culture through the speeches, cultural products, intimate relations, and political and legal practices of Native peoples.

 

Native Diasporas explores how indigenous peoples forged a sense of identity and community amid the changes wrought by European colonialism in the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands, and the mainland Americas from the seventeenth through the twentieth century. Broad in scope and groundbreaking in the topics it explores, this volume presents fresh insights from scholars devoted to understanding Native American identity in meaningful and methodologically innovative ways.

 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part 1: Adapting Indigenous Identities for the Colonial Diaspora
• 1. Indigenous Identities in Mesoamerica after the Spanish Conquest
• 2. Rethinking the Middle Ground
• 3. Identity Articulated
• 4. Religion, Race, and the Formation of Pan-Indian Identities in the Brothertown Movement
• 5. “Decoying Them Within”
• Part 2: Asserting Native Identities through Politics, Work, and Migration
• 6. Mastering Language
• 7. Resistance and Removal
• 8. Progressivism and Native American Self-Expression in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
• 9. Mixed-Descent Indian Identity and Assimilation Policy
• 10. “All Go to the Hop Fields”
• Part 3: Twentieth-Century Reflections on Indigenous and Pan-Indian Identities
• 11. Tribal Institution Building in the Twentieth Century
• 12. Disease and the “Other”
• 13. “Why Injun Artist Me”
• 14. Asserting a Global Indigenous Identity
• 15. From Tribal to Indian
• Contributors
• Notes
• Index
• About the Editors
• Series List