Centering Indigenous People in the Study of Religion in America

Numen ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 303-307
Author(s):  
Tiffany Hale
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
North America ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
American People ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Indian Country ◽  
Role Of Religion

Abstract This essay considers Jennifer Graber’s The Gods of Indian Country and Pamela Klassen’s The Story of Radio Mind together in considering new developments in the field of Native American and Indigenous studies. Hale examines how these books discuss the role of religion in shaping settler colonialism in North America in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She concludes that both works raise pressing methodological questions about how historians of religion can center the lives of Native American people in their work.

scholarly journals Paved Trails and Shampoo Shopping

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-203
Author(s):  
Aimee Louw
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Political Affiliation ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
Mobility Studies

Poetry is a gentle but relentless coach, a lover, personal benchmark, and record for growth. She shifts beliefs, practices, and emotions, tracking pitfalls, steps back, steps around, stillness, like a smooth laketop or slow-streaming river. In this Research-Creation piece, I develop my version of ‘Crip Poetics’ through autoethnographic methods including video poems and hybrid prose-poetry writing. Drawing on Critical Disability Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Mobility Studies, I bring questions of white supremacy and settler colonialism into conversation with accessibility in Canada. I interview Indigenous people with varying relationships to disability and disabled people of multiple settler cultures, using qualitative methods including Hangout as Method (Warren Cariou) and Wheeling Interviews (Laurence Parent). Engaging with interview transcripts as text, to continue conversation and exchange with interviewees, this study offers reflections on interviewing as a method. Reflecting on the limits of participant-action research and representation, I interrogate the role of researchers in marginalized knowledge production, engaging with the limits and possibilities of ‘unsettling research’. I aim to redirect eugenic trends in disability discourse and history towards prioritizing the telling of our own stories. It's my hope that these conversations and the intersections of these struggles are brought to the fore—this selection being one avenue among many to further this work. Dance with me between words and beyond political affiliation.

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.

Settler colonialism and usurping Malay sovereignty in Singapore

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Gareth Knapman
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
East India Company ◽  
The Difference ◽  
New System

This article proposes that Singapore should be considered as a settler colony during its first years of settlement. The first Residents, William Farquhar, Thomas Stamford Raffles and John Crawfurd all attempted to build Singapore as a settler colony, similar to those in Australia and North America. The difference was, however, that they looked to attract Chinese, Malay and Indian settlers as well as Europeans. By viewing Singapore as a settler colony, this article reinterprets our understanding of who constitutes a settler within settler colonial frameworks. It concludes that settler colonialism was not directly about moving indigenous people off the land, but rather establishing a new system of sovereignty in which individuals (regardless of race) were allowed to own land and become settlers. Nevertheless, the actions of the settlers and the British authorities created violent tensions with the original Malay inhabitants that were only resolved by the transfer of sovereignty from Sultan Hussein to the East India Company.

scholarly journals Dialogical Relationships and the Bear in Indigenous Poetry

Sibirica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-120
Author(s):  
Stephan Dudeck
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
North America ◽  
Boreal Forest ◽  
Keystone Species ◽  
Forest Zone ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Indigenous Poetry

The essay provides a review of a small but remarkable book on the work of two important Native American and Siberian poets, Meditations after the Bear Feast by Navarre Scott Momaday and Yuri Vella, published in 2016 by Shanti Arts in Brunswick, Maine. Their poetic dialogue revolves around the well-known role of the bear as a sociocultural keystone species in the boreal forest zone of Eurasia and North America. The essay analyzes the understanding of dialogicity as shaping the intersubjectivity of the poets emerging from human relationships with the environment. It tries to unpack the complex and prophetic bear dream in one of Vella’s poems in which he links indigenous ontologies with urgent sociopolitical problems.

scholarly journals HOW DID THE GARIFUNA BECOME AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE? - RECONSTRUCTING THE CULTURAL PERSONA OF AN AFRICAN-NATIVE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN CENTRAL AMERICA

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Palacio
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Home Country ◽  
American People ◽  
Identidad Cultural ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
People Movement

¿Cómo fue que los Garifuna adquirieron el estatus de indígenas? Reconstrucción de la persona cultural de los nativos de Centroamérica. El título del artículo aquí presentado pretende llamar la atención al relativo reciente origen la nomenclatura “indígena” en referencia a nativos del Nuevo Mundo. Los Garifuna –grupo indígena conformado a partir dela mezcla entre nativos americanos, africanos y el carácter bio-cultural legado por los europeos – constituyen un tópico adecuado para el estudio de la formación y retención de la identidad cultural en la revoltura caribeña. Esta presentación inicia destacando la formación de la matriz cultural en el tiempo y el espacio dentro de un contexto en el que la sabiduría convencional que detentaban los pueblos originarios fue exterminada. Continua, haciendo referencia a la creación de oportunidades por parte de los Garifuna para consolidar su identidad en el Caribe oriental a partir de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, en que se suscitaron décadas de conflicto armado impuesto sobre ellos por los británicos. Termina, con citas de ejemplos de vida del mismo autor relativas a su activismo en los ámbitos académico y movimiento popular indígena en Belice, su país de origen, desde el inicio de la década de 1970.   ABSTRACT The title of this presentation draws attention to the relatively recent origins of the ‘indigenous’ nomenclature to the persona of indigenous peoples in the New World. The Garifuna – an indigenous people formed from the blending of Native American, African, and European bio-cultural traits – are an appropriate topic for the study of the formation and retention of cultural identity within the Caribbean Basin. This presentation starts with the formation of their cultural matrix over time and space within a context, where conventional wisdom held that all native peoples had been exterminated. It continues with the Garifuna creating opportunities for the consolidation of their identity in the Eastern Caribbean during the latter of half of the nineteenth century, within decades of armed conflict imposed on them by the British. It ends by the author citing examples from his own involvement in academic and popular activism within the indigenous people movement in his home country Belize since the early 1970s.  

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.

Foreign Policy and Religion: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Israel

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel G. Hummel
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
American People ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Zionist Movement ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
State Of Israel

Religion has played a constant role in the United States–Israel relationship. Christian and Jewish interests have shaped U.S. foreign policy, especially after the rise of the Zionist movement in the late 19th century and the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The role of religion Israel has historically depended on three interlinking factors: the influence of domestic political considerations in the calculations of American policymakers, the prominence of the Middle East in U.S. diplomatic and strategic thinking, and the beliefs and attitudes of individual policymakers, both their own religious convictions and their assessment of how important religious beliefs are to the American people. Religion has alternately strengthened and strained the U.S. relationship with the Zionist movement and the state of Israel. At some moments, such as the 1930s, religious attitudes and prejudices worked against closer cooperation. At other times, such as the Israeli–Egyptian peace summit of 1978, religious forces played a prominent role. As a state with special religious significance for many Americans, Israel provides a window into how religion functions in U.S. foreign policy, how its function has changed over time, and how religion has acted as an independent variable in political and policy outcomes.

Native American Literature

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Teuton
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
World Literature ◽  
The Body ◽  
Native American Literature ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Indigenous Literature

Native American literature began over thirty thousand years ago when indigenous people started telling stories of emergence, creation, journey, quest, heroism, and trickery. By setting indigenous literature in historical moments, Native American Literature: A Very Short Introduction traces its evolution from the ancient role of bringing rain and healing the body, to its later purpose in resisting European invasion and colonization, into its current place as a world literature confronting dominance while celebrating the imagination and resilience of indigenous lives. This VSI describes the diversity of indigenous peoples who, owing to their differing lands, livelihoods, and customs, molded literature to a nation's specific needs.

scholarly journals Another Origins Debate: Settler Colonialism in Early Virginia History

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Tsukada
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Native People ◽  
Early America ◽  
British North America ◽  
Virginia History

William and Mary Quarterly recently initiated an origins debate concerning settler colonialism in America in their discussion of the applicability of that framework to early America. Settler colonialism is a type of colonialism, specifically characterized as dispossession of indigenous people of their land. In respect to British North America, the beginnings of settler colonialism originate in Virginia, where British colonists came into conflict with native people over land not long after their arrival.

scholarly journals The repatriation of the Palaeoamericans: Kennewick Man/the Ancient One and the end of a non-Indian ancient North America

BJHS Themes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 79-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANN M. KAKALIOURAS
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native American ◽  
North America ◽  
American Indian ◽  
The United States ◽  
Skeletal Remains ◽  
American People ◽  
Family Tree ◽  
Human Skeletal Remains ◽  
Genetic Results

AbstractThis article considers the repatriation of some the most ancient human skeletal remains from the United States as two sorts of ending: their end as objects of scientific study, and their end as ancient non-American Indian settlers of North America. In the 1990s, some prominent physical anthropologists and archaeologists began replacing ‘Palaeoindian’ with the new category of ‘Palaeoamerican’ to characterize the western hemisphere's earliest inhabitants. Kennewick Man/the Ancient One, a nearly nine-thousand-year-old skeleton, convinced some anthropologists that contemporary Native American people (descendants of Palaeoindians) were not biologically related to the very first American colonists. The concept of the Palaeoamerican therefore denied Native American people their long-held status as the original inhabitants of the Americas. New genetic results, however, have contradicted the craniometric interpretations that led to these perceptions, placing the most ancient American skeletons firmly back in the American Indian family tree. This article describes the story of Kennewick Man/the Ancient One, the most famous ‘Palaeoamerican’; explores how repatriation has been a common end for many North American collections (Palaeoindians included); and enumerates what kind of ending repatriation may represent materially and ethically for anthropological science.

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