1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History
The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History presents exciting new innovations in the dynamic field of Indigenous global history while also outlining ethical, political, and practical research.
Indigenous histories are not merely concerned with the past but have resonances for the politics of the present and future, ranging across vast geographical distances and deep time periods. The volume starts with an introduction that explores definitions of Indigenous peoples, followed by six thematic sections which each have a global spread: European uses of history and the positioning of Indigenous people as history’s outsiders; their migrations and mobilities; colonial encounters; removals and diasporas; memory, identities, and narratives; deep histories and pathways towards future Indigenous histories that challenge the nature of the history discipline itself. This book illustrates the important role of Indigenous history and Indigenous knowledges for contemporary concerns, including climate change, spirituality and religious movements, gender negotiations, modernity and mobility, and the meaning of ‘nation’ and the ‘global’. Reflecting the state of the art in Indigenous global history, the contributors suggest exciting new directions in the field, examine its many research challenges and show its resonances for a global politics of the present and future.
This book is invaluable reading for students in both undergraduate and postgraduate Indigenous history courses.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Ann McGrath and Lynette Russell
Part I: History’s Outsiders
Chapter 2 European Uses of History
Henning Trüper
Chapter 3 Theoretical Frontiers
Ben Silverstein
Chapter 4 Indigenous Peoples in Asia: A Long History
Robert Cribb
Chapter 5 World Conservation and Genocidal Frontiers: Global Environmentalism, Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Humanity in the Early Twentieth Century
Fiona Paisley
Part II: Migrations and Mobilities
Chapter 6 Indigenous Global Histories and Modern Human Origins
Martin Porr
Chapter 7 Singing to Ancestors: Respecting and Re-telling Stories Woven Through Ancient Ancestral Lands
Paulette Steeves
Chapter 8 The Case for Continuity of Human Occupation and Rock Art Production in the Kimberley, Australia
Peter Veth, Sam Harper, Kane Ditchfield, Sven Ouzman, and Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation
Chapter 9 Voyagers from the Havai‘i Diaspora: Polynesian Mobility, 1760s–1850s
Kate Fullagar
Chapter 10 Walking the Indigenous City: Colonial Encounters at the Heart of Empire
Coll Thrush
Part III: Colonial Encounters
Chapter 11 Treatied Space: North American Indigenous Treaties in Global Context
Joy Porter
Chapter 12 Sámi Indigeneity in Nineteenth-Century Swedish and British Intellectual Debates
Linda Andersson Burnett
Chapter 13 Language, Translation, and Transformation in Indigenous Histories
Laura Rademaker
Chapter 14 ‘The Case of Polly Indian’: Enslavement, Native Ancestry, and the Law in the British Caribbean
Brooke Newman
Chapter 15 Rethinking the Colonial Encounter in the Age of Trauma
Taylor Spence
Part IV: Removals and Diasporas
Chapter 16 Sexual Removals: Indigenous Genders and Sexualities as Territory
Manuela Picq
Chapter 17 Reimagining Home: Indian Removal, Native Storytelling, and the Search for Belonging
Greg Smithers
Chapter 18 Because of Her We Can: Gender and Diaspora in Australian Exemption Policies
Lucinda Aberdeen, Katherine Ellinghaus, Kella Robinson, and Judi Wickes
Chapter 19 Damage and Dispossession: Indigenous People and Nuclear Weapons on Bikini Atoll and the Pitjantjatjara Lands, 1946 to 1988
Heather Goodall
Chapter 20 The Bones of Our Mother: Adivasi Dispossession in an Indian State
Devleena Ghosh
Part V: Memory, Identities, and Narratives
Chapter 21 Indigenous Narratives, Separations, Denials and Memories: Moving Beyond Loss
Lynette Russell
Chapter 22 Remembering Removal: Indigenous Narratives of Colonial Collecting Practices in the Gulf of Papua (Papua New Guinea)
Chris Urwin
Chapter 23 Indigenous History and Identity in the Caribbean
Barry Higman
Chapter 24 Subttsasa Biehtsevuomátjistema: Recalling the Memories and Stories from Our Little Pine Forest
May-Britt Öhman
Chapter 25 Assisting Indigenous Resistance through Secularism: Legal Limits to Christianisation in Canada (1867–1939)
Claude Gélinas
Part VI: Pathways Towards Future Indigenous Histories
Chapter 26 Transmission’s End? Cataclysm and Chronology in Indigenous Oral Tradition
Chris Ballard
Chapter 27 Archaeology, Hybrid Knowledge and Community Engagement in Africa: Thoughts on Decolonising Practice
Paul Lane
Chapter 28 Indigenous Photography as Subject and Method for Global History
Oliver Haag
Chapter 29 African Literature as Indigenous History in South Africa’s ‘Decolonise the Curriculum’ Movement
Ashleigh Harris
Chapter 30 Haptic History in Southeast Asia – Archiving the Past in Bodies and Landscapes
Emilie Wellfelt
Chapter 31 The Uses of History in Greenland
Claire McLisky and Kirstine Eiby Møller
Chapter 32 Yuraki – An Australian Aboriginal Perspective on Deep History
John Maynard
Chapter 33 Deep History’s Digital Footprints
Ann McGrath
Biography
Ann McGrath is the WK Hancock Distinguished Professor of History at the Australian National University, an ARC Laureate Fellow and Director of the Research Centre for Deep History.
Lynette Russell is an ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellow at Monash University’s Indigenous Studies Centre and Deputy Director of the ARC’s Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage
