Indigenous Peoples and Politics
On the Streets and in the State House: American Indian and Hispanic Women and Environmental Policymaking in New Mexico
1st Edition
By Diane-Michele Prindeville
October 29, 2012
This study explores the politics of American Indian and Hispanic women leaders in New Mexico's environmental policymaking arena. Using non-random purposive sampling, 50 women were selected for participation who were political activists in grassroots organization or public officials, elected or ...
Chief Joseph, Yellow Wolf and the Creation of Nez Perce History in the Pacific Northwest
1st Edition
By Robert Ross McCoy
September 25, 2012
This work focuses on how whites used Nez Perce history, images, activities and personalities in the production of history, developing a regional identity into a national framework....
Spiraling Webs of Relation: Movements Toward an Indigenist Criticism
1st Edition
By Joanne DiNova
July 27, 2012
This work builds on indigenous theory as evident in the writing of Willie Ermine, Gregory Cajete, Craig Womack, Jace Weaver, Laurie Anne Whitt, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Voila Cordova, Dennis McPherson, and others. It works towards a criticism that, in accordance with the precepts of such theory, is ...
Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology
1st Edition
By Raymond Pierotti
April 20, 2012
Indigenous ways of understanding and interacting with the natural world are characterized as Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), which derives from emphasizing relationships and connections among species. This book examines TEK and its strengths in relation to Western ecological knowledge and ...
Indigeneity in the Courtroom: Law, Culture, and the Production of Difference in North American Courts
1st Edition
By Jennifer A. Hamilton
May 16, 2011
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&...
The Ecological Native: Indigenous Peoples' Movements and Eco-Governmentality in Columbia
1st Edition
By Astrid Ulloa
December 09, 2010
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 ...
Collective Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Identity-Based Movement of Plain Indigenous in Taiwan
1st Edition
By Jolan Hsieh
July 06, 2010
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 ...
Speaking with Authority: The Emergence of the Vocabulary of First Nations' Self-Government
1st Edition
By Michael W. Posluns
March 18, 2010
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 ...
Negotiating Claims: The Emergence of Indigenous Land Claim Negotiation Policies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States
1st Edition
By Christa Scholtz
June 09, 2009
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 ...
Media and Ethnic Identity: Hopi Views on Media, Identity, and Communication
1st Edition
By Ritva Levo-Henriksson
March 13, 2009
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...