Bücher der Reihe Critical Indigeneities

In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program. At the time the program ended, many groups had already classified it as a failure. Douglas Miller here argues that a richer story should be told - one that recognises Indigenous mobility in terms of its benefits and not merely its costs.

"Aloha" is at once the most significant and the most misunderstood word in the Indigenous Hawaiian lexicon. Considering the way aloha is embodied, performed, and interpreted in Native Hawaiian literature, music, plays, dance, and drag performance, Stephanie Nohelani Teves shows that misunderstanding of the concept has not prevented the Kanaka Maoli from using it to create and empower community.

Considers the growing number of contemporary Indigenous writers who turn to Maya and Zapotec languages alongside Spanish translations of their work to challenge the tyranny of monolingualism and cultural homogeneity. Gloria E. Chacon argues that these Maya and Zapotec authors reconstruct an Indigenous literary tradition rooted in an Indigenous cosmolectics.

Drawing on oral histories, letters, photographs, military records, and more, Christine Taitano DeLisle reveals how the entangled histories of CHamoru and white American women make us rethink the cultural politics of US imperialism and the emergence of new indigenous identities.

Documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century to the present, integrating a localized history of childbearing, motherhood, and activism on the Crow Reservation in Montana with an analysis of trends affecting Indigenous women more broadly.

By 2009, reverberations of economic crisis spread from the US around the globe. As corporations folded, however, small businesses on the Qualla Boundary of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians continued to thrive. In this ethnographic study, Courtney Lewis reveals the critical roles small businesses such as these play for Indigenous nations.

In this ethnography of Navajo (Dine) popular music culture, Kristina M. Jacobsen examines questions of Indigenous identity and performance by focusing on the surprising and vibrant Navajo country music scene. Through multiple first-person accounts, Jacobsen illuminates country music's connections to the Indigenous politics of language and belonging.

Indigenous women migrants from Central America and Mexico face harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration to the US, like all asylum seekers. But Shannon Speed argues, the circumstances for Indigenous women are especially devastating, given their vulnerability to neoliberal economic and political policies.

Offering an intersectional approach to US empire, Indigenous dispossession, and labour exploitation, Space-Time Colonialism makes clear that Alaska is essential to understanding both American imperial expansion and the machinations of settler colonialism.

Drawing on oral history interviews, correspondence, material objects, and archival sources, Susan Burch reframes the histories of institutionalized people and the places that held them. In so doing, Committed expands the boundaries of Native American history, disability studies, and US social and cultural history generally.

Confronts the chronic displacement of Indigeneity in the politics and discourse around race in American political theory and culture, arguing that the ongoing influence of settler-colonialism has undermined efforts to understand Indigenous politics while also hindering conversation around race itself.