Mohawk interruptus : political life across the borders of settler states /

Mohawk interruptus : political life across the borders of settler states /

Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology. Combining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawà:ke, a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec, Audra Simpson examines their struggles to artic...

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Main Author: Simpson, Audra, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014
Subjects:
Mohawk Indians > Québec (Province) > Kahnawake Indian Reserve > Ethnic identity.
Mohawk Indians > Québec (Province) > Kahnawake Indian Reserve > History.
Indigenous peoples > Canada > Ethnic identity.
Indigenous peoples > Canada > History.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Indigenous interruptions : Mohawk nationhood, citizenship, and the state
  • A brief history of land, meaning, and membership in Iroquoia and Kahnawà:ke
  • Constructing Kahnawà:ke as an "out-of-the-way" place : Ely S. Parker, Lewis Henry Morgan, and the writing of the Iroquois confederacy
  • Ethnographic refusal : anthropological need
  • Borders, cigarettes, and sovereignty
  • The gender of the flint : Mohawk nationhood and citizenship in the face of empire
  • Interruptus.

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