Native diasporas : Indigenous identities and settler colonialism in the Americas /

"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...

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Other authors / contributors: Smithers, Gregory D., 1974- (Editor)
Imprint: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2014.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
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Series:Borderlands and transcultural studies.
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 Century9. 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.