Synopses & Reviews
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the Salish Kootenai College Press
Lori Lambert (Miand#8217;kmaq/Abenaki) examines the problems that researchers encounter when adjusting research methodologies in the behavioral sciences to Native values and tribal community life. In addition to surveying the literature with an emphasis on Native authors, she has also interviewed a sampling of indigenous people in Australia, northern Canada, and Montanaand#8217;s Flathead Indian Reservation.
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Members of four indigenous communities speak about what they expect from researchers who come into their communities. Their voices and stories provide a conceptual framework for non-indigenous researchers who anticipate doing research with indigenous peoples in the social, behavioral, or environmental sciences. This conceptual framework created by indigenous stories similarly provides a framework for hope and empowerment as indigenous communities endeavor to pass on their values and stories to future generations.
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Indigenous research methodologies developed from stories told by elders help researchers to both respect the unique character of Native communities and contribute to their healing and empowerment. Indigenous research as such, however, is not a new phenomenon. Indigenous story keepers have always, through careful observation, articulated in their stories how their world works, thereby also preserving knowledge of their communityand#8217;s past.
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Lori Lambert is a member of the Nulhegan Abenaki Tribe of Vermont and a descendant of the Miand#8217;kmaq/Huron Wendot. For the last twenty years she has taught at Salish Kootenai College on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana. Lambert is the founder of the American Indigenous Research Association.and#160;
Review
"While Red Skin, White Masks focuses on indigenous experiences in Canada, it is immediately applicable to understanding the false promise of recognition, liberal pluralism, and reconciliation at the heart of colonial relationships between indigenous peoples and nation-states elsewhere. Glen Sean Coulthard is able to bring a remarkably distinctive and provocative look at issues of power and opposition relevant to anyone concerned with what constitutes and perpetuates imperialist state formations and what indigenous alternatives offer in regards to freedom." —Joanne Barker, San Francisco State University
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"Red Skin, White Masks offers a sustained, well-informed, and sophisticated critique of the recognition paradigm as an effective theoretical frame for projects of decolonization." —Paul Patton, University of New South Wales
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Praise for the first edition of The Dust Rose Like Smokeand#160;andldquo;It would be difficult to exaggerate the value of this brief but pioneering book.andrdquo;andmdash;Ethnohistoryand#160;andldquo;[Gumpandrsquo;s] opening chapters show a mastery of all the relevant historical literature. Indeed, they could be set for any undergraduate course in imperial history as textbook examples of how to build up a comparative framework of analysis.andrdquo;andmdash;Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth Historyand#160;and#160;andldquo;An excellent scholarly introduction to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century history of the Sioux and the Zulus as well as a thoughtful analysis of United States and British expansion.andrdquo;andmdash;Journal of American Historyand#160;andldquo;The first detailed, in-depth comparison of the closing of the American and South African frontiers. . . . Gump has performed a valuable service by showing that the events surrounding Little Big Horn and Isandhlwana were comparable incidents in a global narrative.andrdquo;andmdash;Journal of Social Historyand#160;andldquo;Informative to both specialist and general readers.andrdquo;andmdash;American Historical Reviewand#160;
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andquot;An intriguing book which opens the doors for all manner of comparative studies, and thereby suggests that the process of interaction between indigenous peoples and imperial interlopers is much the same across the world. . . . an interesting and thought-provoking book.andquot;andmdash;Soldiers of the Queen
Synopsis
WINNER OF:
- Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book from the Caribbean Philosophical Association
- Canadian Political Science Association s C.B. MacPherson Prize
- Studies in Political Economy Book Prize
Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonization between the nation-state and Indigenous nations in North America. The term recognition shapes debates over Indigenous cultural distinctiveness, Indigenous rights to land and self-government, and Indigenous peoples right to benefit from the development of their lands and resources.
In a work of critically engaged political theory, Glen Sean Coulthard challenges recognition as a method of organizing difference and identity in liberal politics, questioning the assumption that contemporary difference and past histories of destructive colonialism between the state and Indigenous peoples can be reconciled through a process of acknowledgment. Beyond this, Coulthard examines an alternative politics one that seeks to revalue, reconstruct, and redeploy Indigenous cultural practices based on self-recognition rather than on seeking appreciation from the very agents of colonialism.
Coulthard demonstrates how a place-based modification of Karl Marx s theory of primitive accumulation throws light on Indigenous state relations in settler-colonial contexts and how Frantz Fanon s critique of colonial recognition shows that this relationship reproduces itself over time. This framework strengthens his exploration of the ways that the politics of recognition has come to serve the interests of settler-colonial power.
In addressing the core tenets of Indigenous resistance movements, like Red Power and Idle No More, Coulthard offers fresh insights into the politics of active decolonization.
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Synopsis
Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonization between the nation-state and Indigenous nations in North America. The term “recognition” shapes debates over Indigenous cultural distinctiveness, Indigenous rights to land and self-government, and Indigenous peoples’ right to benefit from the development of their lands and resources.
In a work of critically engaged political theory, Glen Sean Coulthard challenges recognition as a method of organizing difference and identity in liberal politics, questioning the assumption that contemporary difference and past histories of destructive colonialism between the state and Indigenous peoples can be reconciled through a process of acknowledgment. Beyond this, Coulthard examines an alternative politics—one that seeks to revalue, reconstruct, and redeploy Indigenous cultural practices based on self-recognition rather than on seeking appreciation from the very agents of colonialism.
Coulthard demonstrates how a “place-based” modification of Karl Marx’s theory of “primitive accumulation” throws light on Indigenous–state relations in settler-colonial contexts and how Frantz Fanon’s critique of colonial recognition shows that this relationship reproduces itself over time. This framework strengthens his exploration of the ways that the politics of recognition has come to serve the interests of settler-colonial power.
In addressing the core tenets of Indigenous resistance movements, like Red Power and Idle No More, Coulthard offers fresh insights into the politics of active decolonization.
Synopsis
In 1876 Lakota and Cheyenne warriors annihilated Custerandrsquo;s Seventh Cavalryand#160;at Little Bighorn. Three years later and half a world away, a British force was wiped out by Zulu warriors at Isandhlwana in South Africa. In both cases the total defeat of regular army troops by forces regarded as undisciplined barbarian tribesmen stunned an imperial nation.
Although the similarities between the two frontier encounters have long been noted, James O. Gumpandrsquo;s book The Dust Rose Like Smoke is the first to scrutinize them in a comparative context. andldquo;This study issues a challenge to American exceptionalism,andrdquo; he writes. Viewing both episodes as part of a global pattern of intensified conflict in the latter 1800s resulting from Western domination over a vast portion of the globe, Gumpandrsquo;s comparative study persuasively traces the origins and aftermath of both episodes.
He examines the complicated ways in which Lakota and Zulu leadership sought to protect indigenous interests while Western leadership calculated their subjugation to imperial authority.and#160;
The second edition includes a new preface from the author, revised and expanded chapters, and an interview with Leonard Little Finger (great-great-grandson of Ghost Dance leader Big Foot), whose story connects Wounded Knee and Nelson Mandela.
About the Author
Lori Lambert, PhD,and#160;is a member of the Nulhegan Abenaki Tribe of Vermont and a descendant of the Miand#8217;kmaq/Huron Wendot. For the last twenty years she has taught at Salish Kootenai College on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana. Lambert is the founder of the American Indigenous Research Association.and#160;
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Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword
Taiaiake Alfred
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Subjects of Empire
1. The Politics of Recognition in Colonial Contexts
2. For the Land: The Dene Nation’s Struggle for Self-Determination
3. Essentialism and the Gendered Politics of Aboriginal Self-Government
4. Seeing Red: Reconciliation and Resentment
5. The Plunge into the Chasm of the Past: Fanon, Self-Recognition, and Decolonization
Conclusion. Lessons from Idle No More: The Future of Indigenous Activism
Notes
Index