Lisa Tatonetti
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816692781
- eISBN:
- 9781452949642
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692781.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This chapter offers a provisional history of the authors, genres, and subjects of queer Native studies, narrating a map of relationships and thereby providing a much needed genealogy of the field. It ...
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This chapter offers a provisional history of the authors, genres, and subjects of queer Native studies, narrating a map of relationships and thereby providing a much needed genealogy of the field. It exhumes and invigorates genealogical connections, and as a way to demonstrate that the seeming renaissance of the twenty-first century stems from deep and abiding roots and long-standing Indigenous intellectual traditions. It also contributes to the ongoing conversation about queer images and texts in Native American and Aboriginal literatures.Less
This chapter offers a provisional history of the authors, genres, and subjects of queer Native studies, narrating a map of relationships and thereby providing a much needed genealogy of the field. It exhumes and invigorates genealogical connections, and as a way to demonstrate that the seeming renaissance of the twenty-first century stems from deep and abiding roots and long-standing Indigenous intellectual traditions. It also contributes to the ongoing conversation about queer images and texts in Native American and Aboriginal literatures.
Lisa Tatonetti
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816692781
- eISBN:
- 9781452949642
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692781.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
With a new and more inclusive perspective for the growing field of queer Native studies, this book provides a genealogy of queer Native writing after Stonewall. Looking across a broad range of ...
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With a new and more inclusive perspective for the growing field of queer Native studies, this book provides a genealogy of queer Native writing after Stonewall. Looking across a broad range of literature, the text offers an overview and guide to queer Native literature from its rise in the 1970s to the present day. This book recovers ties between two simultaneous renaissances of the late twentieth century: queer literature and Native American literature. It foregrounds how Indigeneity intervenes within and against dominant interpretations of queer genders and sexualities, recovering unfamiliar texts from the 1970s while presenting fresh, cogent readings of well-known works. In juxtaposing the work of Native authors—including the longtime writer-activist Paula Gunn Allen, the first contemporary queer Native writer Maurice Kenny, the poet Janice Gould, the novelist Louise Erdrich, and the filmmakers Sherman Alexie, Thomas Bezucha, and Jorge Manuel Manzano—with the work of queer studies scholars, the book proposes resourceful interventions in foundational concepts in queer studies while also charting new directions for queer Native studies.Less
With a new and more inclusive perspective for the growing field of queer Native studies, this book provides a genealogy of queer Native writing after Stonewall. Looking across a broad range of literature, the text offers an overview and guide to queer Native literature from its rise in the 1970s to the present day. This book recovers ties between two simultaneous renaissances of the late twentieth century: queer literature and Native American literature. It foregrounds how Indigeneity intervenes within and against dominant interpretations of queer genders and sexualities, recovering unfamiliar texts from the 1970s while presenting fresh, cogent readings of well-known works. In juxtaposing the work of Native authors—including the longtime writer-activist Paula Gunn Allen, the first contemporary queer Native writer Maurice Kenny, the poet Janice Gould, the novelist Louise Erdrich, and the filmmakers Sherman Alexie, Thomas Bezucha, and Jorge Manuel Manzano—with the work of queer studies scholars, the book proposes resourceful interventions in foundational concepts in queer studies while also charting new directions for queer Native studies.
Scott Lauria Morgensen
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816656325
- eISBN:
- 9781452946306
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816656325.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
Explaining how relational distinctions of “Native” and “settler” define the status of being “queer,” this book argues that modern queer subjects emerged among Natives and non-Natives by engaging the ...
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Explaining how relational distinctions of “Native” and “settler” define the status of being “queer,” this book argues that modern queer subjects emerged among Natives and non-Natives by engaging the meaningful difference indigeneity makes within a settler society. The book’s analysis exposes white settler colonialism as a primary condition for the development of modern queer politics in the United States. Bringing together historical and ethnographic cases, it shows how U.S. queer projects became non-Native and normatively white by comparatively examining the historical activism and critical theory of Native queer and Two-Spirit people. Presenting a “biopolitics of settler colonialism”—in which the imagined disappearance of indigeneity and sustained subjugation of all racialized peoples ensures a progressive future for white settlers—this text demonstrates the interdependence of nation, race, gender, and sexuality and offers opportunities for resistance in the United States.Less
Explaining how relational distinctions of “Native” and “settler” define the status of being “queer,” this book argues that modern queer subjects emerged among Natives and non-Natives by engaging the meaningful difference indigeneity makes within a settler society. The book’s analysis exposes white settler colonialism as a primary condition for the development of modern queer politics in the United States. Bringing together historical and ethnographic cases, it shows how U.S. queer projects became non-Native and normatively white by comparatively examining the historical activism and critical theory of Native queer and Two-Spirit people. Presenting a “biopolitics of settler colonialism”—in which the imagined disappearance of indigeneity and sustained subjugation of all racialized peoples ensures a progressive future for white settlers—this text demonstrates the interdependence of nation, race, gender, and sexuality and offers opportunities for resistance in the United States.
Lisa Tatonetti
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816692781
- eISBN:
- 9781452949642
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692781.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This chapter analyzes Maurice Kenny’s early poetry from 1970s queer journals such as Fag Rag. Fag Rag is categorized as a gay male porn magazine because of its inclusion of essays with erotic content ...
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This chapter analyzes Maurice Kenny’s early poetry from 1970s queer journals such as Fag Rag. Fag Rag is categorized as a gay male porn magazine because of its inclusion of essays with erotic content and photographs and drawings of male bodies and sexual acts. Through the recovery and analysis of Kenny’s writing from Fag Rag, this chapter expands the understanding of the Native literary canon, showing that the current rise of queer Native studies and Two-Spirit critiques have their roots in an earlier time and in unexpected venues. Kenny’s writing from the periodicals of the gay cultural renaissance also highlights the ways in which Two-Spirit texts have offered new ways of reading, seeing, and imagining the world.Less
This chapter analyzes Maurice Kenny’s early poetry from 1970s queer journals such as Fag Rag. Fag Rag is categorized as a gay male porn magazine because of its inclusion of essays with erotic content and photographs and drawings of male bodies and sexual acts. Through the recovery and analysis of Kenny’s writing from Fag Rag, this chapter expands the understanding of the Native literary canon, showing that the current rise of queer Native studies and Two-Spirit critiques have their roots in an earlier time and in unexpected venues. Kenny’s writing from the periodicals of the gay cultural renaissance also highlights the ways in which Two-Spirit texts have offered new ways of reading, seeing, and imagining the world.
Scott Lauria Morgensen
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816656325
- eISBN:
- 9781452946306
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816656325.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This introductory chapter explains the theoretical analysis of settler colonialism conditioning the formation of Native and non-Native queer modernities in conversation. It draws from and advances ...
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This introductory chapter explains the theoretical analysis of settler colonialism conditioning the formation of Native and non-Native queer modernities in conversation. It draws from and advances Native, feminist, critical race, and queer studies by emphasizing Indigenous feminist and queer thought and Native queer and Two-Spirit activism. It examines how settler colonial power relations among Native and non-Native people define the status “queer.” It explains that modern queer subjects, politics, and culture have developed among Natives and non-Natives in interrelated, yet distinct, ways. Native queer cultures and politics critique colonial heteropatriarchy by asserting Indigenous methods of national survival, decolonization, and traditional renewal, including within Two-Spirit identity. Additionally, the chapter explains the narrative relationships among queer subjects by situating them within ethnographic and historical accounts of U.S. queer politics.Less
This introductory chapter explains the theoretical analysis of settler colonialism conditioning the formation of Native and non-Native queer modernities in conversation. It draws from and advances Native, feminist, critical race, and queer studies by emphasizing Indigenous feminist and queer thought and Native queer and Two-Spirit activism. It examines how settler colonial power relations among Native and non-Native people define the status “queer.” It explains that modern queer subjects, politics, and culture have developed among Natives and non-Natives in interrelated, yet distinct, ways. Native queer cultures and politics critique colonial heteropatriarchy by asserting Indigenous methods of national survival, decolonization, and traditional renewal, including within Two-Spirit identity. Additionally, the chapter explains the narrative relationships among queer subjects by situating them within ethnographic and historical accounts of U.S. queer politics.
Scott Lauria Morgensen
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816656325
- eISBN:
- 9781452946306
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816656325.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This chapter explains the globalism of U.S. queer modernities as effects of settler colonialism by tracing how homonationalism and white settler queer primitivism may relate within white queer ...
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This chapter explains the globalism of U.S. queer modernities as effects of settler colonialism by tracing how homonationalism and white settler queer primitivism may relate within white queer politics and diasporic queer of color critiques until resituated by the transnationalism of Two-Spirit organizing. In the framework of white settler society, queer projects propose a global scope by naturalizing their inheritance of settlement and then projecting a desired indigeneity worldwide. Scholars have depicted Western queer projects as a neocolonial globalizing force dominating local sexualities, or postcolonial queers as distinctly engaging colonial legacies and Western politics without being assimilated. Queer diasporic critics and transnational feminists trace how local creativity and global constraints cause colonial complicities to be integral to queer postcoloniality even while provoking critical agency.Less
This chapter explains the globalism of U.S. queer modernities as effects of settler colonialism by tracing how homonationalism and white settler queer primitivism may relate within white queer politics and diasporic queer of color critiques until resituated by the transnationalism of Two-Spirit organizing. In the framework of white settler society, queer projects propose a global scope by naturalizing their inheritance of settlement and then projecting a desired indigeneity worldwide. Scholars have depicted Western queer projects as a neocolonial globalizing force dominating local sexualities, or postcolonial queers as distinctly engaging colonial legacies and Western politics without being assimilated. Queer diasporic critics and transnational feminists trace how local creativity and global constraints cause colonial complicities to be integral to queer postcoloniality even while provoking critical agency.
Mark Rifkin
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816677825
- eISBN:
- 9781452948041
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816677825.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
In 1970 the Nixon administration inaugurated a new era in federal Indian policy. No more would the U.S. government seek to deny and displace Native peoples or dismantle Native governments; from now ...
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In 1970 the Nixon administration inaugurated a new era in federal Indian policy. No more would the U.S. government seek to deny and displace Native peoples or dismantle Native governments; from now on federal policy would promote “the Indian’s sense of autonomy without threatening his sense of community.” This book offers a telling perspective on what such a policy of self-determination has meant and looks at how contemporary queer Native writers use representations of sensation to challenge official U.S. accounts of Native identity. The book focuses on four Native writers—Qwo-Li Driskill (Cherokee), Deborah Miranda (Esselen), Greg Sarris (Graton Rachería), and Chrystos (Menominee)—approaching their fiction and poetry as forms of political theory. The book shows how the work of these queer or two-spirit Native writers affirms the significance of the erotic as an exercise of individual and community sovereignty. In this way, we come to see how their work contests the homophobic, sexist, and exclusivist policies and attitudes of tribal communities as well as those of the nation-state.Less
In 1970 the Nixon administration inaugurated a new era in federal Indian policy. No more would the U.S. government seek to deny and displace Native peoples or dismantle Native governments; from now on federal policy would promote “the Indian’s sense of autonomy without threatening his sense of community.” This book offers a telling perspective on what such a policy of self-determination has meant and looks at how contemporary queer Native writers use representations of sensation to challenge official U.S. accounts of Native identity. The book focuses on four Native writers—Qwo-Li Driskill (Cherokee), Deborah Miranda (Esselen), Greg Sarris (Graton Rachería), and Chrystos (Menominee)—approaching their fiction and poetry as forms of political theory. The book shows how the work of these queer or two-spirit Native writers affirms the significance of the erotic as an exercise of individual and community sovereignty. In this way, we come to see how their work contests the homophobic, sexist, and exclusivist policies and attitudes of tribal communities as well as those of the nation-state.
Mark Rifkin
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816690572
- eISBN:
- 9781452949413
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816690572.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
Settler Common Sense considers how writings by several canonical mid-nineteenth-century authors that are not “about” Indians still participate in processes of settler colonialism. More than focusing ...
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Settler Common Sense considers how writings by several canonical mid-nineteenth-century authors that are not “about” Indians still participate in processes of settler colonialism. More than focusing on the ways Native peoples are treated and imagined by non-natives, the book illustrates how the legal concepts, practices, and geographies developed in claiming Native lands and displacing Native peoples live on in the everyday lives of non-natives even when political struggles with Native peoples seem to be of the past. Rifkin shows how authors implicitly draw on such ongoing histories as the background for offering queer critiques of state policy. While displacing the nuclear family and engaging with forms of desire and family-formation that would have been understood as deviant, these writers all imagine a kind of place to which one might flee that allows one to exist beyond government influence – a space in which one can discover and experiment with more democratic ways of being in the world. However, those very spaces become available for such imaginative investment as a result of displacing Indigenous sovereignties, treating the “domestic” space of the nation as self-evident despite the persistence of Native peoples and claims. Unlike existing work that focuses on representations of Native peoples, Settler Common Sense emphasizes how the imperial incorporation of Native lands into the U.S. nation-state shapes everyday non-native perception, experience, and ethics.Less
Settler Common Sense considers how writings by several canonical mid-nineteenth-century authors that are not “about” Indians still participate in processes of settler colonialism. More than focusing on the ways Native peoples are treated and imagined by non-natives, the book illustrates how the legal concepts, practices, and geographies developed in claiming Native lands and displacing Native peoples live on in the everyday lives of non-natives even when political struggles with Native peoples seem to be of the past. Rifkin shows how authors implicitly draw on such ongoing histories as the background for offering queer critiques of state policy. While displacing the nuclear family and engaging with forms of desire and family-formation that would have been understood as deviant, these writers all imagine a kind of place to which one might flee that allows one to exist beyond government influence – a space in which one can discover and experiment with more democratic ways of being in the world. However, those very spaces become available for such imaginative investment as a result of displacing Indigenous sovereignties, treating the “domestic” space of the nation as self-evident despite the persistence of Native peoples and claims. Unlike existing work that focuses on representations of Native peoples, Settler Common Sense emphasizes how the imperial incorporation of Native lands into the U.S. nation-state shapes everyday non-native perception, experience, and ethics.
Mark Rifkin
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816677825
- eISBN:
- 9781452948041
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816677825.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This book addresses how contemporary queer Native writers use the representation of bodily, emotional, and psychological sensation in challenging U.S. formulations of political subjectivity, while ...
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This book addresses how contemporary queer Native writers use the representation of bodily, emotional, and psychological sensation in challenging U.S. formulations of political subjectivity, while seeking to reimagine what counts as sovereignty and providing alternative ways of figuring Native experience. The supposedly apparent continuity of Indianness gives way to genealogies of sensation that trace how peoplehood exists within forms of feeling, prompting these queer writers to theorize dynamics of Indigenous sociality that shapes the meaning of self-determination under settler rule. Through this, possibilities for conceptualizing and realizing alternative versions of collective identity and indigeneity gradually emerge, in the attempt to go against the efforts to displace, translate, and erase Native peoples.Less
This book addresses how contemporary queer Native writers use the representation of bodily, emotional, and psychological sensation in challenging U.S. formulations of political subjectivity, while seeking to reimagine what counts as sovereignty and providing alternative ways of figuring Native experience. The supposedly apparent continuity of Indianness gives way to genealogies of sensation that trace how peoplehood exists within forms of feeling, prompting these queer writers to theorize dynamics of Indigenous sociality that shapes the meaning of self-determination under settler rule. Through this, possibilities for conceptualizing and realizing alternative versions of collective identity and indigeneity gradually emerge, in the attempt to go against the efforts to displace, translate, and erase Native peoples.
Mark Rifkin
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816690572
- eISBN:
- 9781452949413
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816690572.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
Chapter 1 – It provides the theoretical and methodological background for the study. Surveying relevant scholarship in nineteenth-century American literary studies, Native studies, and queer studies, ...
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Chapter 1 – It provides the theoretical and methodological background for the study. Surveying relevant scholarship in nineteenth-century American literary studies, Native studies, and queer studies, it develops in detail the meaning, scope, and implications of the book’s central concept (settler common sense), elaborating its contribution to those three fields.Less
Chapter 1 – It provides the theoretical and methodological background for the study. Surveying relevant scholarship in nineteenth-century American literary studies, Native studies, and queer studies, it develops in detail the meaning, scope, and implications of the book’s central concept (settler common sense), elaborating its contribution to those three fields.
Mark Rifkin
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816690572
- eISBN:
- 9781452949413
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816690572.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
Chapter 2 – Nathaniel Hawthorne’s House of the Seven Gables takes up the Lockean assumptions of earlier struggles against elite propertyholding in Maine. In doing so, the text opens up the potential ...
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Chapter 2 – Nathaniel Hawthorne’s House of the Seven Gables takes up the Lockean assumptions of earlier struggles against elite propertyholding in Maine. In doing so, the text opens up the potential for a non-nuclear vision of homemaking, but it makes non-native labor on the land ethically paradigmatic in ways that efface the persistent presence and claims of Wabanki peoples.Less
Chapter 2 – Nathaniel Hawthorne’s House of the Seven Gables takes up the Lockean assumptions of earlier struggles against elite propertyholding in Maine. In doing so, the text opens up the potential for a non-nuclear vision of homemaking, but it makes non-native labor on the land ethically paradigmatic in ways that efface the persistent presence and claims of Wabanki peoples.
Mark Rifkin
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816690572
- eISBN:
- 9781452949413
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816690572.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
Chapter 3 – In critiquing the debt produced by the effort to own property, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden develops an autoerotic vision of selfhood based on withdrawal into the space of “nature.” That ...
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Chapter 3 – In critiquing the debt produced by the effort to own property, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden develops an autoerotic vision of selfhood based on withdrawal into the space of “nature.” That vision, though, takes existing accounts of the peculiarity of Native landholding as the basis for imagining the potential for non-native exploration and reverie.Less
Chapter 3 – In critiquing the debt produced by the effort to own property, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden develops an autoerotic vision of selfhood based on withdrawal into the space of “nature.” That vision, though, takes existing accounts of the peculiarity of Native landholding as the basis for imagining the potential for non-native exploration and reverie.
Mark Rifkin
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816690572
- eISBN:
- 9781452949413
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816690572.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
Herman Melville’s Pierre draws on the Anti-Rent movement in upstate New York to critique inherited estates, and it positions the city as an escape from inequities in the country. Casting New York ...
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Herman Melville’s Pierre draws on the Anti-Rent movement in upstate New York to critique inherited estates, and it positions the city as an escape from inequities in the country. Casting New York City as such a site, though, overlooks the ways its phenomenal growth in the nineteenth century depended on the displacement of Iroquois peoples.Less
Herman Melville’s Pierre draws on the Anti-Rent movement in upstate New York to critique inherited estates, and it positions the city as an escape from inequities in the country. Casting New York City as such a site, though, overlooks the ways its phenomenal growth in the nineteenth century depended on the displacement of Iroquois peoples.
Lisa Tatonetti
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816692781
- eISBN:
- 9781452949642
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692781.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This chapter assesses the images that have been used to depict queer Native people in contemporary narrative film. Contemporary narrative film, which offers the most widely viewed representations of ...
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This chapter assesses the images that have been used to depict queer Native people in contemporary narrative film. Contemporary narrative film, which offers the most widely viewed representations of queer Native people, often reenacts fragmenting visions of the erotic. Films like Big Eden, Johnny Greyeyes, and The Business of Fancydancing replicate the legacies of settler colonialism in their depictions of Two-Spirit Native people, leaving queer Indigenous people with an untenable choice in which they are “forced to choose.” They must either embrace family and nation in the silence of desire, or embrace sexuality at the expense of tribal and familial alliances.Less
This chapter assesses the images that have been used to depict queer Native people in contemporary narrative film. Contemporary narrative film, which offers the most widely viewed representations of queer Native people, often reenacts fragmenting visions of the erotic. Films like Big Eden, Johnny Greyeyes, and The Business of Fancydancing replicate the legacies of settler colonialism in their depictions of Two-Spirit Native people, leaving queer Indigenous people with an untenable choice in which they are “forced to choose.” They must either embrace family and nation in the silence of desire, or embrace sexuality at the expense of tribal and familial alliances.
Lisa Tatonetti
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816692781
- eISBN:
- 9781452949642
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692781.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This concluding chapter answers the question of what can be gained by considering “the queerness” of Native American literature. Queering Indigenous literary history and engaging specifically queer ...
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This concluding chapter answers the question of what can be gained by considering “the queerness” of Native American literature. Queering Indigenous literary history and engaging specifically queer Indigenous literary history forces the reconsideration of foundational moments in Native studies. The writers, artists, and scholars discussed in this book both build upon and extend pre-existing intellectual genealogies and geographies. These genealogies and geographies represent archives of more diverse social roles, indexes of creative kinship relations, and essential meaning-making practices through which to generate and organize knowledge. Examining Indigenous erotics not only strengthens approaches to queer and Indigenous studies but also forwards restorative decolonial practices.Less
This concluding chapter answers the question of what can be gained by considering “the queerness” of Native American literature. Queering Indigenous literary history and engaging specifically queer Indigenous literary history forces the reconsideration of foundational moments in Native studies. The writers, artists, and scholars discussed in this book both build upon and extend pre-existing intellectual genealogies and geographies. These genealogies and geographies represent archives of more diverse social roles, indexes of creative kinship relations, and essential meaning-making practices through which to generate and organize knowledge. Examining Indigenous erotics not only strengthens approaches to queer and Indigenous studies but also forwards restorative decolonial practices.
Scott Lauria Morgensen
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816656325
- eISBN:
- 9781452946306
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816656325.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This chapter explores how “settler sexuality” queers Native peoples to attempt their elimination compatibly with emphasizing racialized heteropatriarchal control over subject people of color placed ...
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This chapter explores how “settler sexuality” queers Native peoples to attempt their elimination compatibly with emphasizing racialized heteropatriarchal control over subject people of color placed on Native lands. The queering of white settlers then rests on the existence of a settler colonialism that conditions both heteronormative and queer gender and sexual politics on stolen land, which Two-Spirit activists and Native queer resist. It argues that the biopolitics of settler colonialism creates settler sexuality as the context traversed by Native and non-Native people formulating queer modernities. Non-Native queer modernities develop by gathering a multiracial, transnational constituency as a diversity that exists in a non-Native relationship to disappearing indigeneity. Moreover, settler colonialism is a primary condition of the history of sexuality in the United States.Less
This chapter explores how “settler sexuality” queers Native peoples to attempt their elimination compatibly with emphasizing racialized heteropatriarchal control over subject people of color placed on Native lands. The queering of white settlers then rests on the existence of a settler colonialism that conditions both heteronormative and queer gender and sexual politics on stolen land, which Two-Spirit activists and Native queer resist. It argues that the biopolitics of settler colonialism creates settler sexuality as the context traversed by Native and non-Native people formulating queer modernities. Non-Native queer modernities develop by gathering a multiracial, transnational constituency as a diversity that exists in a non-Native relationship to disappearing indigeneity. Moreover, settler colonialism is a primary condition of the history of sexuality in the United States.
Scott Lauria Morgensen
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816656325
- eISBN:
- 9781452946306
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816656325.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This chapter presents conversations on berdache as spaces that produced queer modernities for Native and non-Native people in close relationship in the late twentieth century. The popularity of ...
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This chapter presents conversations on berdache as spaces that produced queer modernities for Native and non-Native people in close relationship in the late twentieth century. The popularity of berdache was heightened when gay and lesbian politics expressed progressive legacies of U.S. anthropology. Gay and lesbian and allied anthropologists in the 1970s began to evaluate sexual conservatism in anthropology and U.S. society by creating the Anthropological Research Group on Homosexuality (ARGOH), later renamed the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists (SOLGA). The twentieth-century scholars linked the anthropology of homosexuality to the pursuit of sexual minority politics within anthropology. U.S. anthropology of homosexuality correlated research on homosexuality to the activist defense of gay and lesbian anthropologists. ARGOH made sexual minority politics a basis for anthropological knowledge production by promoting research on homosexuality and defending gay and lesbian anthropologists.Less
This chapter presents conversations on berdache as spaces that produced queer modernities for Native and non-Native people in close relationship in the late twentieth century. The popularity of berdache was heightened when gay and lesbian politics expressed progressive legacies of U.S. anthropology. Gay and lesbian and allied anthropologists in the 1970s began to evaluate sexual conservatism in anthropology and U.S. society by creating the Anthropological Research Group on Homosexuality (ARGOH), later renamed the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists (SOLGA). The twentieth-century scholars linked the anthropology of homosexuality to the pursuit of sexual minority politics within anthropology. U.S. anthropology of homosexuality correlated research on homosexuality to the activist defense of gay and lesbian anthropologists. ARGOH made sexual minority politics a basis for anthropological knowledge production by promoting research on homosexuality and defending gay and lesbian anthropologists.
Scott Lauria Morgensen
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816656325
- eISBN:
- 9781452946306
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816656325.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This chapter traces how desires for cultural authenticity linked queer politics in the United States to what Elizabeth Povinelli has called “liberal settler multiculturalism” while being challenged ...
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This chapter traces how desires for cultural authenticity linked queer politics in the United States to what Elizabeth Povinelli has called “liberal settler multiculturalism” while being challenged by multiracial and transnational queer alliances led by Two-Spirit activists. Settler citizenship conditions the relationality of non-Native and Native people within queer politics. Whether nominally universal or markedly restricted, settler citizenship confers opportunity, security, and liberty by facilitating the colonial domestication or replacement of Native nationality. The chapter also argues that queer narratives of cultural integrity inflected by “race” locate freedom in belonging to a settler nation. U.S. queer projects define their integrity by appealing to the cultural status of an ethnic group.Less
This chapter traces how desires for cultural authenticity linked queer politics in the United States to what Elizabeth Povinelli has called “liberal settler multiculturalism” while being challenged by multiracial and transnational queer alliances led by Two-Spirit activists. Settler citizenship conditions the relationality of non-Native and Native people within queer politics. Whether nominally universal or markedly restricted, settler citizenship confers opportunity, security, and liberty by facilitating the colonial domestication or replacement of Native nationality. The chapter also argues that queer narratives of cultural integrity inflected by “race” locate freedom in belonging to a settler nation. U.S. queer projects define their integrity by appealing to the cultural status of an ethnic group.
Scott Lauria Morgensen
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816656325
- eISBN:
- 9781452946306
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816656325.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This chapter explores how non-Native gay counterculturists pursued multiple desires for queer indigeneity that, while contested by antiracist critique, confronted their settler formation only in ...
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This chapter explores how non-Native gay counterculturists pursued multiple desires for queer indigeneity that, while contested by antiracist critique, confronted their settler formation only in relationship to Native gay and Two-Spirit men. Gay and lesbian counterculturists in back-to-the-land collectives across Canada and the United States inspired broader circulation of their rural practices. One of their lasting legacies is the Radical Faeries. Radical Faeries employ back-to-the-land principles to a mobile practice that made retreat to rural space a conduit for urban and itinerant people to realize portable truths. Radical Faerie culture privileged rural retreats as a way for non-Native gay men to liberate an Indigenous gay nature and incorporate it in their everyday lives.Less
This chapter explores how non-Native gay counterculturists pursued multiple desires for queer indigeneity that, while contested by antiracist critique, confronted their settler formation only in relationship to Native gay and Two-Spirit men. Gay and lesbian counterculturists in back-to-the-land collectives across Canada and the United States inspired broader circulation of their rural practices. One of their lasting legacies is the Radical Faeries. Radical Faeries employ back-to-the-land principles to a mobile practice that made retreat to rural space a conduit for urban and itinerant people to realize portable truths. Radical Faerie culture privileged rural retreats as a way for non-Native gay men to liberate an Indigenous gay nature and incorporate it in their everyday lives.
Scott Lauria Morgensen
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816656325
- eISBN:
- 9781452946306
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816656325.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This chapter discusses how Native activist critiques of heteropatriarchy in Native communities, settler states, and global fields mark the settler colonial biopolitics of health governance and ...
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This chapter discusses how Native activist critiques of heteropatriarchy in Native communities, settler states, and global fields mark the settler colonial biopolitics of health governance and stimulate global Indigenous alliance for decolonization. While homonationalism produces queer integration into settler citizenship and union with Native lands by naturalizing settlements, Native queer activists lead Native peoples to challenge settler colonialism, the very formation homonationalism reinforces. Thus, Native activists resemble queers of color who lead communities of color in antiheteropatriarchal struggles against imperialism and racism that challenge the power of the state. The chapter also argues that by engaging Native peoples in diasporas caused by colonization, Native queer and Two-Spirit movements model transnational modes of naming and defending Native sovereignty.Less
This chapter discusses how Native activist critiques of heteropatriarchy in Native communities, settler states, and global fields mark the settler colonial biopolitics of health governance and stimulate global Indigenous alliance for decolonization. While homonationalism produces queer integration into settler citizenship and union with Native lands by naturalizing settlements, Native queer activists lead Native peoples to challenge settler colonialism, the very formation homonationalism reinforces. Thus, Native activists resemble queers of color who lead communities of color in antiheteropatriarchal struggles against imperialism and racism that challenge the power of the state. The chapter also argues that by engaging Native peoples in diasporas caused by colonization, Native queer and Two-Spirit movements model transnational modes of naming and defending Native sovereignty.
