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Indigeneity in the Courtroom
Law, Culture, and the Production of Difference in North American Courts
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
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The Ecological Native
Indigenous Peoples' Movements and Eco-Governmentality in Columbia
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
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Collective Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Identity-Based Movement of Plain Indigenous in Taiwan
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
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Speaking with Authority
The Emergence of the Vocabulary of First Nations' Self-Government
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
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Politics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Native American Literature
Across Every Border
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
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Negotiating Claims
The Emergence of Indigenous Land Claim Negotiation Policies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States
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
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Media and Ethnic Identity
Hopi Views on Media, Identity, and Communication
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
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Negotiating Claims
The Emergence of Indigenous Land Claim Negotiation Policies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States
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 February 2nd 2006 by Routledge
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Native American and Chicano/a Literature of the American Southwest
Intersections of Indigenous Literatures
Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics
Published April 11th 2004 by Routledge
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National Identity and the Conflict at Oka
Native Belonging and Myths of Postcolonial Nationhood in Canada
Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics
Through readings of literature, canonical history texts, studies of museum displays and media analysis, this work explores the historical formation of myths of Canadian national identity and then how these myths were challenged (and affirmed during the 1990 standoff at Oka. It draws upon history,...
Published April 11th 2004 by Routledge