Jodi A. Byrd
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816676408
- eISBN:
- 9781452947754
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816676408.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter focuses on how the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2007 has been framed both within Hawai‘i and on the continent as a way to understand how the United States uses ...
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This chapter focuses on how the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2007 has been framed both within Hawai‘i and on the continent as a way to understand how the United States uses discourses of Indianness to solidify its presence in the Pacific as it develops and contorts federal law to colonize indigenous nations. It studies how the continual transformation and revision of federal Indian policy becomes a coherent and inevitable expansionist discourse orchestrated by a seemingly static United States. In the face of colonial processes that seek to hide the fractures within U.S. boundaries among American Indian nations, it is important to investigate how discourses of Indianness are used both by the imperial U.S. government and by those Native Hawaiian activists who frame “Indianness” as an infection threatening their rights and status as an internationally recognized sovereign state.Less
This chapter focuses on how the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2007 has been framed both within Hawai‘i and on the continent as a way to understand how the United States uses discourses of Indianness to solidify its presence in the Pacific as it develops and contorts federal law to colonize indigenous nations. It studies how the continual transformation and revision of federal Indian policy becomes a coherent and inevitable expansionist discourse orchestrated by a seemingly static United States. In the face of colonial processes that seek to hide the fractures within U.S. boundaries among American Indian nations, it is important to investigate how discourses of Indianness are used both by the imperial U.S. government and by those Native Hawaiian activists who frame “Indianness” as an infection threatening their rights and status as an internationally recognized sovereign state.
Byron Dueck
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199747641
- eISBN:
- 9780199379859
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199747641.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music, History, American
Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries considers several genres of music and dance currently performed in First Nations and Métis communities in the western Canadian province of ...
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Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries considers several genres of music and dance currently performed in First Nations and Métis communities in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, including fiddling, step dancing, country music, and gospel song. It also explores some of the contexts in which these genres are performed, including concerts, coffeehouses, dance competitions, and funerary wakes. Such gatherings open up spaces for the expression of distinctive modes of northern Algonquian sociability; they also play a role in the perpetuation of a distinctive indigenous public culture. They are in this sense interstitial sites: at once places of intimate engagement and spaces oriented to an imagined public of strangers. This volume looks at how Manitoban aboriginal musicians engage with musical intimates and mass-mediated audiences; how they negotiate the possibilities mass mediation affords—in some cases making enthusiastic use of broadcasts and recordings, and in others insistently prioritizing social intimacy; and how, in doing so, they extend and elaborate indigenous sociability.Less
Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries considers several genres of music and dance currently performed in First Nations and Métis communities in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, including fiddling, step dancing, country music, and gospel song. It also explores some of the contexts in which these genres are performed, including concerts, coffeehouses, dance competitions, and funerary wakes. Such gatherings open up spaces for the expression of distinctive modes of northern Algonquian sociability; they also play a role in the perpetuation of a distinctive indigenous public culture. They are in this sense interstitial sites: at once places of intimate engagement and spaces oriented to an imagined public of strangers. This volume looks at how Manitoban aboriginal musicians engage with musical intimates and mass-mediated audiences; how they negotiate the possibilities mass mediation affords—in some cases making enthusiastic use of broadcasts and recordings, and in others insistently prioritizing social intimacy; and how, in doing so, they extend and elaborate indigenous sociability.
