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From the Stomp Grounds on Up: Indigenous Movement and the Politics of Globalization

Mishuana Goeman

in Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations

Chapter three furthers the methods of indigenous women's use of literary maps to work through various spatial injustices that particularly effected women of color throughout the 1980-1990's. Joy ... More

Chapter three furthers the methods of indigenous women's use of literary maps to work through various spatial injustices that particularly effected women of color throughout the 1980-1990's. Joy Harjo enables us to see the relationship between local spaces and global violences and indigenous methods for healing the rift caused by NAFTA and the policies leading up to its enactment.Less

“Someday a Story Will Come”: Rememorative Futures

Mishuana Goeman

in Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations

Chapter four continues the examination of global violence and connects it to early forms of literary mappings, by examining Leslie Marmon Silko's epic novel Almanac of the Dead. The use of narrative ... More

Chapter four continues the examination of global violence and connects it to early forms of literary mappings, by examining Leslie Marmon Silko's epic novel Almanac of the Dead. The use of narrative as counterparts to producing and being productive of space have led to great spatial injustice in the wake of neoliberal policies that seek to further privatize spaces from that of the body to land. By connecting the early spatial restructuring to that of the turn of the century, we are able to see the on-going effects of colonial spatial restructuring and find solutions for (re)mapping our nations.Less

Against the Yellowwashing of Israel: The BDS Movement and Liberatory Solidarities across Settler States

Candace Fujikane

in Flashpoints for Asian American Studies

Following the focus on Palestine in the previous chapter, Chapter 9 takes as a critical starting point the complicit relationship Asian American politicians such as Senator Daniel Inouye shared with ... More

Following the focus on Palestine in the previous chapter, Chapter 9 takes as a critical starting point the complicit relationship Asian American politicians such as Senator Daniel Inouye shared with Israel. Such complicit “yellowwashing,” which involves a strategic remembrance of World War II–era Japanese American incarceration, presages Fujikane’s alternative evaluation of “liberatory solidarities” between Pacific Islanders and Palestinians.Less

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

Elizabeth Hoover

in The River Is in Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community

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 ... More

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 framedLess

“We’re Not Going to Be Guinea Pigs”: Lessons from Community-Based Participatory Research

Elizabeth Hoover

in The River Is in Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community

Rooted in interview material with scientists, field workers and study participants, as well as the literatures of citizen science, CBPR, and study report-back, the third chapter discusses the ... More

Rooted in interview material with scientists, field workers and study participants, as well as the literatures of citizen science, CBPR, and study report-back, the third chapter discusses the benefits and challenges for both scientists and community members of this large-scale CBPR project.Less

Afterword: Anthropological Poetics

Edgar Garcia

in Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu

The afterword reflects on the book’s methodology, which it calls an “anthropological poetics.” In elaborating an anthropological framework in literary studies, this afterword lingers with the ... More

The afterword reflects on the book’s methodology, which it calls an “anthropological poetics.” In elaborating an anthropological framework in literary studies, this afterword lingers with the difficulty of trying to understand how the structures of language shape and complicate the structures of the worlds in which words and people find themselves. The afterword thus explains how, in allowing for aesthetics (especially form and rhythm) to take on world-making, world-framing, and world-breaking force, the present book follows Gloria Anzaldúa’s emphasis that “it is vital that we occupy theorizing space, that we not allow white men and women solely to occupy it...[because by] bringing in our own approaches and methodologies, we transform that theorizing space.” This afterword highlights how the book has taken such an approach to poetic objects, striving to allow their forms to theorize on the situations in which they find themselves and, in recognizing themselves there, to which they give situational definition. It concludes with a reading of Central-American poet and visual artist Roberto Harrison’s visual and literary engagements with Kuna molas and applique techniques.Less

(Re)routing Native Mobility, Uprooting Settler Spaces in the Poetry of Esther Belin

Mishuana Goeman

in Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations

Chapter two, the poetry of Esther Belin enables us to begin to imagine alternatives from the exclusion promoted through gendered indigenous policies. Through literary and cultural maps Belin enables ... More

Chapter two, the poetry of Esther Belin enables us to begin to imagine alternatives from the exclusion promoted through gendered indigenous policies. Through literary and cultural maps Belin enables us to work through the colonial restructuring of lands and bodies meted out through the policies of Termination and Relocation in the 1950's-70's.Less

“Remember What You Are”: Gendering Citizenship, the Indian Act, and (Re)mapping the Settler Nation-State

Mishuana Goeman

in Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations

In chapter one, an examination of two short stories by E. Pauline Johnson exemplify the interstices of race, gender, and nation as they pertain to the concept of civilizing Indians and excluding ... More

In chapter one, an examination of two short stories by E. Pauline Johnson exemplify the interstices of race, gender, and nation as they pertain to the concept of civilizing Indians and excluding Native women from national spaces (both First Nation and Canada) through the Indian Act in the early 1900's. Johnson, through her heroines and the intimate act of marriage and public act of citizenship, speaks to the colonial restructuring of Native lands and bodies.Less

Many Voices, One Nation

Kristina M. Jacobsen

in Sound of Navajo Country: Music, Language, and Diné Belonging

The conclusion reflects on how a politics of difference and belonging—and the idea of indigenous social authenticity more broadly—is negotiated by Diné citizens. Focusing on the language fluency ... More

The conclusion reflects on how a politics of difference and belonging—and the idea of indigenous social authenticity more broadly—is negotiated by Diné citizens. Focusing on the language fluency controversy in the most recent Navajo Presidential election with Presidential Candidate Christopher C. Deschene, I address what the stakes might be in reifying social difference through the lenses of linguistic knowledge and performance, place of residence, musical taste, and phenotype. I then examine language use and vitality in Navajo language immersion schools on the Navajo Nation. Bringing together ethnomusicology, linguistic anthropology and Critical Indigenous Studies, I examine the parts of Navajo identity that are either publicly celebrated or hidden from view, and I interrogate what these categories of difference mean for those that utilize—or refuse them—today.Less

Gendered Geographies and Narrative Markings

Mishuana Goeman

in Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations

In the Introduction I lay out the groundwork for gendered spatial violence and the concept of (re)mapping that I use throughout the book.

Driving Tour through the Political and Environmental History of Akwesasne

Elizabeth Hoover

in The River Is in Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community

Chapter 1 lays out the history of this community in the context of a driving tour, using landmarks along the main thoroughfare to discuss relevant points in Akwesasne’s history to illustrate the ... More

Chapter 1 lays out the history of this community in the context of a driving tour, using landmarks along the main thoroughfare to discuss relevant points in Akwesasne’s history to illustrate the historico-political setting for community responses to the environmental contaminationLess

Highlighting Resilience: Individual, Social, and Political Resurgence and Survivance

Elizabeth Hoover

in The River Is in Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community

The book’s conclusion highlights how Akwesasro:non suggestions for ways to improve environmental health research and health care can be framed through a model of three bodies: the individual, social, ... More

The book’s conclusion highlights how Akwesasro:non suggestions for ways to improve environmental health research and health care can be framed through a model of three bodies: the individual, social, and political bodies. This final chapter also explores how Mohawks have created a third space of sovereignty that addresses their health, cultural and research needs in the face of environmental contamination, through grassroots and tribal programsLess

Contamination, Convenience, and a Changing Food Culture

Elizabeth Hoover

in The River Is in Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community

Prior to the discovery of contamination in the river, Akwesasne relied on fishing and farming to sustain food needs and the local economy. The fourth chapter focuses on changes in food culture in ... More

Prior to the discovery of contamination in the river, Akwesasne relied on fishing and farming to sustain food needs and the local economy. The fourth chapter focuses on changes in food culture in Akwesasne and the direct and collateral ways that people connect this, and the ensuing health complications, to the environmental contamination and other factorsLess

PCBs and Thrifty Genes: Broadening the Scope of Illness Explanation

Elizabeth Hoover

in The River Is in Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community

The fifth chapter explores the ways in which Akwesasne community members conceptualize the environmental, social, and physiological origins of diabetes, placing the blame not just on individual ... More

The fifth chapter explores the ways in which Akwesasne community members conceptualize the environmental, social, and physiological origins of diabetes, placing the blame not just on individual non-compliant bodies, but rather weaving a more complex etiology that indicates connections between PCBs and diabetesLess

Conclusion: The Game of Our Time

Steven Salaita

in Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine

The conclusion of Inter/Nationalism discusses a suite of board games that reproduces settler colonization. Using two games released by the German company Catan, where the gamer conquers and settles ... More

The conclusion of Inter/Nationalism discusses a suite of board games that reproduces settler colonization. Using two games released by the German company Catan, where the gamer conquers and settles an already occupied land, the author suggests that it reinforces a sense of belonging on a native land without the fuss of guilt or self-reflection. Real histories can be subsumed by their own legendary effects on modernity, but their disappearance into the settler’s overactive imagination is never complete.Less

Environmental Contamination, Health Studies, and Mitigation Politics

Elizabeth Hoover

in The River Is in Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community

Drawing from interviews, archival materials, public meeting minutes, and newspaper clippings, the second chapter documents the history of the discovery of, and efforts to remediate environmental ... More

Drawing from interviews, archival materials, public meeting minutes, and newspaper clippings, the second chapter documents the history of the discovery of, and efforts to remediate environmental contamination, as well as the work that went into establishing community based environmental health research at AkwesasneLess