Hemispheric indigeneities : native identity and agency in Mesoamerica, the Andes, and Canada
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Hemispheric indigeneities : native identity and agency in Mesoamerica, the Andes, and Canada
University of Nebraska Press, c2018
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Description
Hemispheric Indigeneities is a critical anthology that brings together indigenous and nonindigenous scholars specializing in the Andes, Mesoamerica, and Canada. The overarching theme is the changing understanding of indigeneity from first contact to the contemporary period in three of the world's major regions of indigenous peoples.
Although the terms indio, indigene, and indian only exist (in Spanish, French, and English, respectively) because of European conquest and colonization, indigenous peoples have appropriated or changed this terminology in ways that reflect their shifting self-identifications and aspirations. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, this process constantly transformed the relation of Native peoples in the Americas to other peoples and the state. This volume's presentation of various factors-geographical, temporal, and cross-cultural-provide illuminating contributions to the burgeoning field of hemispheric indigenous studies.
Hemispheric Indigeneities explores indigenous agency and shows that what it means to be indigenous was and is mutable. It also demonstrates that self-identification evolves in response to the relationship between indigenous peoples and the state. The contributors analyze the conceptions of what indigeneity meant, means today, or could come to mean tomorrow.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. First Contacts, First Nations
1. The Early Colonial Origins of Indigeneity in and around the Basin of Mexico
Susan Kellogg
2. Existing Ancestralities and the Failure of Colonial Regimes
Susan Elizabeth Ramirez
3. "We Do the Same Thing among Ourselves": Becoming Indigenous in Atlantic Canada
David T. McNab
Part 2. Indigenous Survival and Selfhood in the Long Nineteenth Century
4. Everything Must Change so that Everything Can Stay the Same: Miscegenation, Racialization, and Culture in Modern Mesoamerica
Luis Fernando Granados
5. From Prosperity to Poverty: Andeans in the Nineteenth Century
Erick D. Langer
6. Nation Making / Nation Breaking: "Effective Control" of Aboriginal Lands and Peoples by Settlers in Transition
Karl S. Hele
Part 3. Asserting Indigeneity in the Contemporary Era
7. Asserting Indigeneity in Contemporary Mexico and Central America: Autonomy, Rights, and Confronting Nation-States
Lynn Stephen
8. Against Coloniality: Andres Jach'aqullu's Indigenous Movement in the Era of the Bolivian National Revolution of 1952
Waskar T. Ari-Chachaki
9. Reel Visions: Snapshots from a Half Century of First Nations Cinema
Milena Santoro
Postface. Indigenous Experience and Legacies
10. Travels of a Metis through Spirit Memory, around Turtle Island, and Beyond
David T. McNab
Contributors
Index
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