Speaking of indigenous politics : conversations with activists, scholars, and tribal leaders

Kauanui, J. Kēhaulani 1968- (author,, interviewer.). Warrior, Robert Allen, (writer of foreword,, interviewee.).

Summary: On her radio program "Indigenous Politics", J. Kēhaulani Kauanui talked candidly and in an engaging way about how settler colonialism depends on erasing Native peoples and about how Native peoples can and do resist, bringing Indigenous activism to the mainstream. Collected here, these conversations speak with clear and compelling voices about a range of Indigenous politics that shape everyday life.--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781517904777
ISBN: 1517904773
ISBN: 9781517904784
ISBN: 1517904781
Physical Description: print
xxx, 369 pages ; 27 cm.
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Jessie Little Doe Baird on Reviving the Wampanoag language -- Omar Barghouti on The Ethics of boycott, divestment, and sanctions -- Lisa Brooks on The Recovery of Native space in the Northeast -- Kathleen A. Brown-Pérez on Tribal legitimacy in the face of termination -- Margaret Bruchac on Erasure and the unintended consequences of repatriation legislation -- Jessica Cattelino on Indian gaming, renewed self-governance, and economic strength -- David Cornsilk on Freedmen citizenship rights at Cherokee -- Sarah Deer on Native women and sexual violence -- Philip J. Deloria on Genealogies of activism and scholarship -- Tonya Gonnella Frichner on Developing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples -- Hone Harawira on Māori activism and sovereignty -- Suzan Shown Harjo on The Twentieth anniversary of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act -- Winona LaDuke on Environmental activism -- Maria LaHood and Rashid Khalidi on Zionist excavations at the Mamilla Cemetery in Jerusalem -- James Luna on the (Performance) Art of irony -- Chief Mutáwi Mutáhash (Many Hearts) Lynn Malerba on Mohegan tribal resilience and leadership -- Aileen Moreton-Robinson on Whiteness and indigeneity in Australia -- Steven Newcomb on Decoding the Christian doctrine of discovery -- Jean M. O'Brien on Tracing the origins of the persistent myth of the "vanishing Indian" -- Jonathan Kamakawiwo'ole Osorio on A Hawaiian land case before the U.S. Supreme Court -- Steven Salaita on Colonization and ethnic cleansing in North America and Palestine -- Paul Chaat Smith on The Politics of representation -- Circe Sturm on Cherokee identity politics and the phenomenon of racial shifting -- Margo Tamez on Indigenous resistance to the U.S.-Mexico Border Wall -- Chief Richard Velky on The Schaghticoke struggle for federal recognition -- Robert Warrior on Intellectual sovereignty and the work of the public intellectual -- Patrick Wolfe on Settler colonialism.