Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas (Borderlands and Transcultural Studies)

The arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indigenous lifeways, and the effects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human trafficking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman have gathered the work of leading scholars, including Bill Anthes, Duane Champagne, Daniel Cobb, Donald Fixico, and Joy Porter, among others, in examining an expansive range of Native peoples and the extent of their influences through reaggregation. These diverse and wide-ranging essays uncover indigenous understandings of self-identification, community, and culture through the speeches, cultural products, intimate relations, and political and legal practices of Native peoples. __Native Diasporas__ explores how indigenous peoples forged a sense of identity and community amid the changes wrought by European colonialism in the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands, and the mainland Americas from the seventeenth through the twentieth century. Broad in scope and groundbreaking in the topics it explores, this volume presents fresh insights from scholars devoted to understanding Native American identity in meaningful and methodologically innovative ways. "The arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indigenous lifeways, and the effects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human trafficking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman have gathered the work of leading scholars, including Bill Anthes, Duane Champagne, Daniel Cobb, Donald Fixico, and Joy Porter, among others, in examining an expansive range of Native peoples and the extent of their influences through reaggregation. These diverse and wide-ranging essays uncover indigenous understandings of self-identification, community, and culture through the speeches, cultural products, intimate relations, and political and legal practices of Native peoples. Native Diasporas explores how indigenous peoples forged a sense of identity and community amid the changes wrought by European colonialism in the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands, and the mainland Americas from the seventeenth through the twentieth century. Broad in scope and groundbreaking in the topics it explores, this volume presents fresh insights from scholars devoted to understanding Native American identity in meaningful and methodologically innovative ways"--Page [4] de la couverture "The arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indigenous lifeways, and the effects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human trafficking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman have gathered the work of leading scholars, including Bill Anthes, Duane Champagne, Daniel Cobb, Donald Fixico, and Joy Porter, among others, in examining an expansive range of Native peoples and the extent of their influences through reaggregation. These diverse and wide-ranging essays uncover indigenous understandings of self-identification, community, and culture through the speeches, cultural products, intimate relations, and political and legal practices of Native peoples. Native Diasporas explores how indigenous peoples forged a sense of identity and community amid the changes wrought by European colonialism in the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands, and the mainland Americas from the seventeenth through the twentieth century. Broad in scope and groundbreaking in the topics it explores, this volume presents fresh insights from scholars devoted to understanding Native American identity in meaningful and methodologically innovative ways"-- Provided by publisher Cover 1 Title page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 List of Illustrations 8 Preface 10 Introduction 16 Part 1. Adapting Indigenous Identities for the Colonial Diaspora 44 1. Indigenous Identities in Mesoamerica after the Spanish Conquest 46 2. Rethinking the Middle Ground: French Colonialism and Indigenous Identities in the Pays d’en Haut 94 3. Identity Articulated 124 4. Religion, Race, and the Formation of Pan-Indian Identities in the Brothertown Movement, 1700–1800 166 5. “Decoying Them Within” 202 Part 2. Asserting Native Identities through Politics, Work, and Migration 222 6. Mastering Language 224 7. Resistance and Removal 250 8. Progressivism and Native American Self- Expression in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century 288 9. Mixed-Descent Indian Identity and Assimilation Policy 312 10. “All Go to the Hop Fields” 332 Part 3. Twentieth- Century Reflections on Indigenous and Pan- Indian Identities 362 11. Tribal Institution Building in the Twentieth Century 364 12. Disease and the “Other” 400 13. “Why Injun Artist Me” 426 14. Asserting a Global Indigenous Identity 458 15. From Tribal to Indian 488 Contributors 512 Index 518