Native Lands

Culture and Gender in Indigenous Territorial Claims

Shari M. Huhndorf

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9780520400191
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: Social Sciences

Native Lands analyzes the role of visual and literary culture in contemporary Indigenous campaigns for territorial rights. In the post-1960s era, Indigenous artists and writers have created works that align with the goals and strategies of new Native land-based movements. These works represent Native histories and epistemologies in ways that complement activist endeavors, while also probing the limits of these political projects, especially with regard to gender. The social marginalization of Native women was integral to dispossession. And yet its enduring consequences have remained largely neglected, even in Native organizing, as a pressing concern associated with the status of Indigenous people in settler nation-states. The cultural works discussed in this book provide an urgent Indigenous feminist rethinking of Native politics that exposes the innate gendered dimensions of ongoing settler colonialism. They insist that Indigenous campaigns for territorial rights must entail gender justice for Native women.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Terminology
• Introduction: Native Lands
• 1. Bodies of Land: Culture and Gender in Indigenous Dispossession
• 2. “Mapping by Words”: Cartography in Tracks and Solar Storms
• 3. Scenes from the Fringe: Gendered Violence and the Geographies of Indigenous Feminism
• 4. Contested Landscapes: Kent Monkman, Zacharias Kunuk, and the Art of Indigenous History
• Conclusion: Bodies of Land, Redux
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index