Settler Colonialism, Native American Motherhood, and the Politics of Terminating Pregnancies

2017 ◽  
pp. 221-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brianna Theobald
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Settler Colonialism

The Spider’s Web

2019 ◽  
pp. 385-408
Author(s):  
Douglas K. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Carceral State ◽  
Red Power ◽  
American Indian Movement ◽  
History Of ◽  
Reservation System ◽  
Wounded Knee

The chapter situates Native American incarcerations within a long history of broken treaties, circumscribed sovereignty, land theft, forced removals, reservation and boarding school confinement, and economic and cultural paternalism. The framework that the chapter offers is one centered on what the author calls “settler custodialism,” where the root of Indian incarceration runs through the reservation system. The chapter locates Native American prisoner resistance within a longer trajectory of struggle against settler colonialism that has drawn on traditional ties to land, family, tribe, and community. The rising consciousness of the American Indian Movement (AIM) is linked directly to the incarceration of two of its principal founders, Dennis Banks and Clyde Bellecourt. From AIM’s police patrols to the Alcatraz Island prison takeover, the radicalization of the Red Power movement had more to do with its encounter with the carceral state than has been previously recognized. The chapter concludes that the prison also served as a blunt instrument to dismantle the Red Power movement when many of its leaders were incarcerated following the 1973 Wounded Knee operation.

Intolerance toward Native American Religions

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-146
Author(s):  
John Corrigan ◽  
Lynn S. Neal
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
North America ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Military Force ◽  
Native American Religions

Settler colonialism was imbued with intolerance towards Indigenous peoples. In colonial North America brutal military force was applied to the subjection and conversion of Native Americans to Christianity. In the United States, that offense continued, joined with condemnations of Indian religious practice as savagery, or as no religion at all. The violence was legitimated by appeals to Christian scripture in which genocide was commanded by God. Forced conversion to Christianity and the outlawing of Native religious practices were central aspects of white intolerance.

Environmental Justice, Political Ecology, and the Three Bodies of a Mohawk Community

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Hoover
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Community Based

The first chapter introduces the Superfund process, and describes how concepts and theories around environmental justice and political ecology need to be framed with an understanding of settler colonialism to be applied to Native American communities. This introduction also describes the community based methods from which this project was born, and lays out the three bodies (individual, social and political) through which Akwesasro:non responses to topics throughout the book are framed

Igorot Squatters and Indian Wards: Toward an Intra-imperial History of Land Dispossession

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Tinio McKenna
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American West ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Spanish Empire ◽  
Land Dispossession ◽  
Land Disputes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Legal Structures ◽  
Made In

AbstractThis essay considers two land disputes that took place in the first decade of U.S. rule in the Philippines and that reached the U.S. Supreme Court:Cariño v. Insular Government(1909) andReavis v. Fianza(1909). In arguing their cases, litigants were forced to reckon with the property rights regime of the former Spanish empire. In this regard, the cases affirm the import of inter-imperial frameworks for understanding colonial problems of land ownership and sovereignty. When arguing over the rightful owners of Philippine lands, parties to these cases also drew on the history and legal bases of land dispossession and settler colonialism in the American West. Further, in later decades, the arguments made in one of these cases would figure into legal conflicts over Native American lands. These cases thus suggest the value of also examining intra-imperial relationships, the emphasis of this essay. They demonstrate how histories and legal structures of settler-driven “expansion” and extra-continental colonialism informed, even constituted, each other.

Memory Lands

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine M. DeLucia
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
New England ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Early America ◽  
King Philip's War ◽  
Indigenous Resistance ◽  
Intercultural Interactions ◽  
Colonial New England ◽  
Resistance Movement

This book reassesses the nature and meanings of King Philip’s War (1675-1678), a major Indigenous resistance movement and colonial conflict that pervasively reshaped the American Northeast and has reverberated among regional communities for centuries. It focuses on specific places that have been meaningful to Native American (Algonquian) peoples over long spans of time, as well as to colonial New England residents more recently, and how the waging and remembrance of violence at these locales has affected communities’ senses of past, place, and collective purpose. Its case studies reinterpret intercultural interactions and settler colonialism in early America, the importance of place and environment in the production of history, and the myriad ways in which memory has been mobilized to shape the present and future. It emphasizes that American history continues to be contested, in highly local and sometimes hard-to-perceive ways that require careful interdisciplinary methods to access, as well as in more prominent arenas.

scholarly journals Defining Energy in Nineteenth-Century Native American Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 372-390
Author(s):  
Kent Linthicum ◽  
Mikaela Relford ◽  
Julia C. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Native American ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Lake Superior ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Native American Literature ◽  
Indigenous Resistance ◽  
American Authors ◽  
Rock Lake

Abstract Native American authors in the first half of the nineteenth century—the dawn of the Anthropocene in some accounts—were witness to the rapid expansion of settler-colonialism powered by new ideologies of energy and fueled by fossil capitalism. These authors, though, resisted extractive metaphors for energy and fuel, offering more organic and intimate visions of energy instead. Using energy humanities theories developed by Warren Cariou (Métis) and Bob Johnson, among others, this article will analyze Mary Jemison’s (Seneca) autobiography; Jane Johnston Schoolcraft’s (Ojibwe) poem, “On the Doric Rock, Lake Superior”; and John Rollin Ridge’s (Cherokee) novel, The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta. These works show how Native American authors defined energy as cyclical and intimate in contrast to the growing settler society’s vision of linear, unending extraction. This article argues that nineteenth-century Native American Anglophone literatures expand the scope of the energy humanities by describing energy intimacy while also extending the histories of Indigenous resistance to settler energy imaginaries. Nineteenth-century Native American literatures can make important contributions to the scope of the energy humanities and need to be integrated into the field to grasp the full scale of current environmental crises.

scholarly journals “A Structure, Not an Event”: Settler Colonialism and Enduring Indigeneity

Lateral ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Kehaulani Kauanui
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Race Ethnicity

A response to the forum, “Emergent Critical Analytics for Alternative Humanities,” edited by Chris A. Eng and Amy K. King. J. Kēhaulani Kauanui discusses the distinctive shifts toward examining Patrick Wolfe’s theory of settler colonialism as 'a structure, not an event.' Kauanui argues that a substantive engagement with settler colonialism also demands a deep rethinking of the associated concept of indigeneity–distinct from race, ethnicity, culture, and nation(ality)–along with the field of Native American and Indigenous Studies.

scholarly journals Redrawing Relationalities at the Anthropocene(s): Disrupting and Dismantling the Colonial Logics of Shared Identity Through Thinking with Kim Tallbear

2021 ◽  
pp. 109-119
Author(s):  
Priyanka Dutt ◽  
Anastasya Fateyeva ◽  
Michelle Gabereau ◽  
Marc Higgins
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Science Education ◽  
Native American ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
Indigenous Land

AbstractWhat does it mean to respond to the Anthropocenes, plural, when doing science education? Specifically, can we critically engage with the Anthropocene, singular, without responding to the multiplicity in which Indigenous land and its many facets within the global community were at risk of destruction from Man? In this work, we contemplate the urgency of the inclusion of Indigenous philosophies and ways-of-knowing within the arching body politic, giving space to these practices that have been otherwise silenced within and beyond Western colonial frames. We argue that if the ways of thinking and practicing science and science education continue to stem from settler colonialism, capitalism, and toxicity, having previously and continually been responsible for the erasure of Indigeneity, the response within the Anthropocene will be multitudinously harmful. Here, we turn to Dakota scholar, Kim Tallbear, (Native American DNA: Tribal belonging and the false promise of genetic belonging, University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and her work in the intersections of identity, science, settler relations, and Indigeneity with the use of provocative imagery to the innate feeling of and within the Anthropocene(s).

What Is Settler Colonialism? (for Leo Delano Ames Jr.)

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Mikdashi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native American ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Family Members ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethical Imperative ◽  
Gayatri Spivak ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Do So

The question that titles this article is deceptively simple. It invites answers that do not, and cannot, exist. One can only address the remainder of a settler colonial project, particularly one as successful as the United States. It is impossible to write about that which cannot be known, and yet there is an ethical imperative to do so. In looking for answers to the question of settler colonialism, I have only a narrative, one that tries to resist the seduction of identity-based claims and yet writes through and pauses on identity's shadows, reversals, and ambivalences. The intimacy and obligation of what Gayatri Spivak has called ghostwriting, and the expectation of failure entailed within it, animates this piece of writing. The ghosts here are not only my grandfather, his mother, or my Native American and Palestinian comrades, family members, and loved ones. The ghosts are everything that happens in the act of writing itself, the affective registers of documenting, living, dying, and struggling with the question and the successes of settler colonialism.

scholarly journals Entangled Pasts: Land-Grant Colleges and American Indian Dispossession

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-467
Author(s):  
Margaret A. Nash
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Native American ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Public Lands ◽  
Land Grant ◽  
Scientific Education ◽  
Westward Migration

Land-grant colleges were created in the mid-nineteenth century when the federal government sold off public lands and allowed states to use that money to create colleges. The land that was sold to support colleges was available because of a deliberate project to dispossess American Indians of land they inhabited. By encouraging westward migration, touting the “civilizing” influence of education, emphasizing agricultural and scientific education to establish international strength, and erasing Native rights and history, the land-grant colleges can be seen as an element of settler colonialism. Native American dispossession was not merely an unfortunate by-product of the establishment of land-grant colleges; rather, the colleges exist only because of a state-sponsored system of Native dispossession.

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