Books in the Indigenous Peoples and Politics series

This book investigates a development project, which introduced field agriculture, an example of applied archaeology based on excavations of the pre-Hispanic fields, into contemporary rural communities in the Lake Titicaca Basin of Bolivia.

Ciaran O¿Faircheallaigh presents the first systematic analysis of agreement outcomes and the factors that shape them, based on evaluative criteria developed especially for this study and on an analysis of 45 negotiations between Aboriginal peoples and mining companies across Australia.

Through readings of literature, canonical history texts, studies of museum displays and media analysis, this work explores the historical formation of myths of Canadian national identity and then how these myths were challenged and affirmed during the 1990 standoff at Oka.

Ciaran O¿Faircheallaigh presents the first systematic analysis of agreement outcomes and the factors that shape them, based on evaluative criteria developed especially for this study and on an analysis of negotiations between Aboriginal peoples and mining companies.

This work focuses on how whites used Nez Perce history, images, activities and personalities in the production of history, developing a regional identity into a national framework.

This book studies Native American and Chicano/a writers of the American Southwest as a coherent cultural group with common features and distinct efforts to deal with and to resist the dominant Euro-American culture.

This study explores the politics of American Indian and Hispanic women leaders in New Mexico's environmental policymaking arena. Using non-random purposive sampling, 50 women were selected for participation who were political activists in grassroots organizations or public officials, elected or appointed to local, state or tribal government.

Through a comparative historical analysis of five Ecuadorian Amazonian indigenous organisations and two transnational Amazonian social movement organisations, the work illustrates the process of transnational collective action and its outcomes.

This work applies Jacques Derridas framework of 'spectropolitics' to (post)coloniality.

Examining four of Lee Smith's mountain novels from the point of view of cultural anthropology, this study shows that fragments of the Cherokee heritage resonate in her work. These elements include connections with the Cherokee beliefs regarding medicinal plants and spirit animals, Cherokee stories about the Daughter of the Sun and the Raven Mocker.

Presents a historical framework for the shift in Native American literary studies away from cultural analyses toward more politically inflected and motivated perspectives and examines the key moments in this turn.

Indigenous ways of understanding and interacting with the natural world are characterized as Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), which derives from emphasizing relationships and connections among species. This book examines TEK and its strengths in relation to Western ecological knowledge and evolutionary philosophy.

This work approaches Native American literature from within an interdisciplinary framework that complicates traditional notions of literary "origins" and canon.

Using the comparative historical method, this book looks at the experience of indigenous peoples, specifically the Native Hawaiians.

Explores the emergence of the vocabulary of First Nations' self-government into public and parliamentary discourse in Canada during the decade of the 1970s. This work studies the testimony of First Nations and aboriginal witnesses before Joint Committees on the Constitutions and the Commons Committee on Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

Focuses on the legal deployment of indigenous difference in US and Canadian courts in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Through ethnographic and historical research, this book traces dimensions of indigeneity through close readings of four legal cases, each of which raises questions about law, culture, and the production of difference.

Why do governments choose to negotiate indigenous land claims rather than resolve claims through some other means? Addressing this question, this book argues that negotiation policies emerge when indigenous people marginalize politically prior to significant judicial determinations on land rights, and not after judicial change alone.

Investigates the forced migration of the Delawares in the US and the Yaquis in Mexico, focusing on the impact removal from tribal lands had on the (ethnic) identity of these two indigenous societies. This book analyzes Native responses to state policies to determine the options that each group had in dealing with the states in which they lived.

Introducing Aboriginal thought into Western scholarship, this book begins by highlighting the distinctions between the two thought systems, before moving towards synthesis. It helps set the relatedness of Western and Aboriginal thought in motion, with both social and scholarly implications.