Violence and Indigenous Communities

Confronting the Past and Engaging the Present
While recognizing the long history of genocidal violence against Indigenous peoples, the contributors to this volume emphasize the agency of individuals and communities in genocide's aftermath and provide historical and contemporary examples of activism, resistance, identity formation, historical memory, resilience, and healing.
In contrast to past studies that focus narrowly on war and massacre, treat Native peoples as victims, and consign violence safely to the past, this interdisciplinary collection of essays opens up important new perspectives. While recognizing the long history of genocidal violence against Indigenous peoples, the contributors emphasize the agency of individuals and communities in genocide's aftermath and provide historical and contemporary examples of activism, resistance, identity formation, historical memory, resilience, and healing. The collection also expands the scope of violence by examining the eyewitness testimony of women and children who survived violence, the role of Indigenous self-determination and governance in inciting violence against women, and settler colonialism's promotion of cultural erasure and environmental destruction.

By including contributions on Indigenous peoples in the United States, Canada, the Pacific, Greenland, SÁpmi, and Latin America, the volume breaks down nation-state and European imperial boundaries to show the value of global Indigenous frameworks. Connecting the past to the present, this book confronts violence as an ongoing problem and identifies projects that mitigate and push back against it.

Contributor: Rauna Kuokkanen (Contributions by), Lucinda Rasmussen (Contributions by), Christine M. DeLucia (Contributions by), Brenda J. Child (Contributions by), Ashley Riley Sousa (Contributions by), Scott Manning Stevens (Contributions by), Amy Lonetree (Contributions by), Beth H. Piatote (Contributions by), Susan Sleeper-Smith (Edited by), Joshua L. Reid (Edited by), Sylvia Soto (Contributions by), Nick Estes (Contributions by), Amber Hickey (Contributions by), Kealani Cook (Contributions by), Alicia Ivonne Estrada (Contributions by), Jeff Ostler (Edited by), Forrest Hylton (Contributions by), Liz Przybylski (Contributions by)

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