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1. The State and Indigenous Movements

   By Keri E. Iyall Smith

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   Using the comparative historical method, this book looks at the experience of indigenous peoples, specifically the Native Hawaiians, showing how a nation can express culture and citizenship while seeking ways to attain greater sovereignty over territory, culture, and politics....

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. The State, Removal and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Mexico, 1620-2000

   By Claudia Haake

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   This book investigates the forced migration of the Delawares in the United States and the Yaquis in Mexico, focusing primarily on the impact removal from tribal lands had on the (ethnic) identity of these two indigenous societies. It analyzes Native responses to colonial and state policies to...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology

   By Raymond Pierotti

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   Indigenous ways of understanding and interacting with the natural world are characterized as Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), which derives from emphasizing relationships and connections among species. This book examines TEK and its strengths in relation to Western ecological knowledge and...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
4. Indigeneity in the Courtroom

   Law, Culture, and the Production of Difference in North American Courts

   By Jennifer A. Hamilton

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   The central question of this book is when and how does indigeneity in its various iterations – cultural, social, political, economic, even genetic – matter in a legal sense? Indigeneity in the Courtroom focuses on the legal deployment of indigenous difference in US and Canadian courts in the late&...

   Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Ecological Native

   Indigenous Peoples' Movements and Eco-Governmentality in Columbia

   By Astrid Ulloa

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   This text analyzes indigenous peoples' processes of identity construction as ecological natives. It opens space for reconstructing all the different networks, conditions of emergence, and implications (political, cultural, social and economic) of one specific event: the consolidation of the...

   Published December 8th 2010 by Routledge
6. Collective Rights of Indigenous Peoples

   Identity-Based Movement of Plain Indigenous in Taiwan

   By Jolan Hsieh

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   The focus of this book is on the PingPu peoples in Taiwan and their right to official recognition as "indigenous peoples" by the Taiwanese government. The result of centuries of colonization, indigenous tribes in Taiwan have faced severe cultural repression because of the government's refusal to...

   Published July 5th 2010 by Routledge
7. Speaking with Authority

   The Emergence of the Vocabulary of First Nations' Self-Government

   By Michael W. Posluns

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   This work explores the emergence of the vocabulary of First Nations' self-government into the realm of public and parliamentary discourse in Canada during the decade of the 1970s. The emergence of the vocabulary is chronicled through a study of the testimony of First Nations and aboriginal...

   Published March 17th 2010 by Routledge
8. Politics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Native American Literature

   Across Every Border

   By Matthew Herman

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   Over the last twenty years, Native American literary studies has taken a sharp political turn. In this book, Matthew Herman provides the historical framework for this shift and examines the key moments in the movement away from cultural analyses toward more politically inflected and motivated...

   Published December 7th 2009 by Routledge
9. Negotiating Claims

   The Emergence of Indigenous Land Claim Negotiation Policies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States

   By Christa Scholtz

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   Why do governments choose to negotiate indigenous land claims rather than resolve claims through some other means? In this book Scholtz explores why a government would choose to implement a negotiation policy, where it commits itself to a long-run strategy of negotiation over a number of...

   Published June 8th 2009 by Routledge
10. Media and Ethnic Identity

    Hopi Views on Media, Identity, and Communication

    By Ritva Levo-Henriksson

    Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

    Media and Ethnic Identity carries a Native American perspective to media and its role in ethnic identity construction. This perspective is gained through a case study of the Hopis, who live in northeast Arizona and are known for their devotion to their indigenous culture. The research data is built...

    Published March 12th 2009 by Routledge