Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America

Herausgeber: Hinton, Alexander Laban

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Produktbeschreibung

This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North America. Colonists made multiple and interconnected attempts to destroy Indigenous peoples as groups. The contributors examine these efforts through the lens of genocide. Considering some of the most destructive aspects of the colonization and subsequent settlement of North America, several essays address Indigenous boarding school systems imposed by both the Canadian and U.S. governments in attempts to "civilize" or "assimilate" Indigenous children. Contributors examine some of the most egregious assaults on Indigenous peoples and the natural environment, including massacres, land appropriation, the spread of disease, the near-extinction of the buffalo, and forced political restructuring of Indigenous communities. Assessing the record of these appalling events, the contributors maintain that North Americans must reckon with colonial and settler colonial attempts to annihilate Indigenous peoples. Contributors. Jeff Benvenuto, Robbie Ethridge, Theodore Fontaine, Joseph P. Gone, Alexander Laban Hinton, Tasha Hubbard, Margaret D. Jabobs, Kiera L. Ladner, Tricia E. Logan, David B. MacDonald, Benjamin Madley, Jeremy Patzer, Julia Peristerakis, Christopher Powell, Colin Samson, Gray H. Whaley, Andrew Woolford

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780822357636
• ISBN-10: 0822357631
• Artikelnr.: 40702231

Autorenporträt

Andrew Woolford is Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Social Justice Research Coordinator at the University of Manitoba. Jeff Benvenuto is a Ph.D. student in the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University, Newark. Alexander Laban Hinton is the Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Professor of Anthropology and Global Affairs, and the UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University, Newark. Theodore Fontaine is the author of Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools: A Memoir.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / Theodore Fontaine vii
Introduction. Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America / Jeff
Benvenuto, Andrew Woolford, and Alexander Laban Hinton 1
Part I. Intersections and Trajectories
1. Discipline, Territory, and the Colonial Mesh: Indigenous Boarding
Schools in the United States and Canada / Andrew Woolford 29
2. Global Capital, Violence, and the Making of a Colonial Shatter Zone /
Robbie Ethridge 49
3. Genocide in Canada: A Relational View / Christopher Powell and Julia
Peristerakis 70
Part II. Erasure and Legibility
4. California and Oregon's Modoc Indians: How Indigenous Resistance
Camouflages Genocide in Colonial Histories / Benjamin Madley 95
6. Memory, Erasure, and National Myth / Tricia E. Logan 149
7. Residential School Harm and Colonial Dispossession: What's the
Connection? / Jeremy Patzer 166
Part III. Transformations
8. The Habit of Elimination: Indigenous Child Removal in Settler Colonial
Nations in the Twentieth Century / Margaret D. Jacobs 189
9. Revisiting Choctaw Ethnocide and Ethnogenesis: The Creative Destruction
of Colonial Genocide / Jeff Benvenuto 208
10. Political Genocide: Killing Nations through Legislation and Slow-Moving
Poison / Kiera L. Ladner 226
11. Dispossession and Canadian Land Claims: Genocidal Implications of the
Innu Nation Land Claim / Colin Samson 246
Part IV. (Re)Imaginings
12. Colonial Genocide and Historical Trauma in Native North America:
Complicating Contemporary Attributions / Joseph P. Gone 273
13. Buffalo Genocide in Nineteenth-Century North America: "Kill, Skin, and
Sell" / Tasha Hubbard 292
14. Genocide in the Indian Residential Schools: Canadian History through
the Lens of the UN Genocide Convention / David B. MacDonald 306
Afterword. Colonial Genocide and Indigenous North America: A View from
Critical Genocide Studies / Alexander Laban Hinton 325
Contributors 333
Index 339