Transnational Indians in the North American West.

This collection of eleven original essays goes beyond traditional, border-driven studies to place the histories of Native Americans, Indigenous peoples, and First Nation peoples in a larger context than merely that of the dominant nation. As Transnational Indians in the North American West shows, tr...

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Main Author: Marak, Andrae
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Texas A & M University Press, 2015.
Series:Connecting the greater west series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Transnational Indians of the North American West / Andrae Marak and Gary Van Valen
  • The Indigenous Southwest as Mesoamerica's northern frontier: Mexico, harmony, and the Quincunx / W. Dirk Raat
  • "Forced transnationalism" among Indigenous people across borderlands: Mexico and the United States / Maria Cristina Manzano-Munguia
  • In search of Juan Antonio Ignacio Baca, a Pueblo participant in the shifting politics of nineteenth-century New Mexico / Gary Van Valen
  • "Indios barbaros" and the making of Mexican colonization policy after independence: from conquest to colonization / Jose Angel Hernandez
  • Property rights in the transition of Canadian prairie Indians onto reserves / Tony Ward
  • Two tales of the conquest of Seriland: Pascual Encinas, Roberto Thomson, the White Chief and the Seri Indians / Andrae Marak
  • "The stubborn disposition of these Indians": survival and subsistence on the upper Columbia River, 1820-1880 / Ian Stacy
  • Shifting borders: Indian territory in crisis / Clarissa W. Confer
  • Struggles for place and space: Kickapoo traces from the Midwest to Mexico / Kristin Hoganson
  • A shared past: Washoe Indians and the Dawes Act of 1887 / Matthew Stephen Makley
  • Indigenous resistance and racist schooling on the borders of empires: Coast Salish cultural survival / Michael Marker
  • Indigenous transnationalism and Alberta First Nations gaming: political compromise or negotiated economic advantage? / Yale D. Belanger.