Description:
This interdisciplinary collection of essays recognizes a long history of genocidal violence against Indigenous peoples while emphasizing the agency of Native individuals and communities in genocide's aftermath. Contributors provide historical and contemporary examples of activism, resistance, identity formation, historical memory, resilience, survival, and healing.
Review Quotes: "Deftly ranging across historical eras and transcending the imposition of national frameworks of analysis, Violence and Indigenous Communities offers essential new directions in the study of violence and settler colonialism. Researchers, educators, activists, and community members are certain to find useful the broad geographical reach of these rich studies and to benefit from the transformative interdisciplinarity within them. The collection's insistence on conceptualizing the quotidian, everyday forms of violence as well as accompanying forms of anti-capitalist resistance makes this a particularly timely and needed collection. I can't wait to teach it and to share these rich studies with new generations of learners." --Ned Blackhawk, author of Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West