Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations | vii Preface | ix Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman Introduction: “What Is an Indian?”—The Enduring Question of American Indian Identity | 1 Gregory D. Smithers Part 1. Adapting Indigenous Identities for the Colonial Diaspora 1. Indigenous Identities in Mesoamerica after the Spanish Conquest | 31 Rebecca Horn 2. Rethinking the Middle Ground: French Colonialism and Indigenous Identities in the Pays d’en Haut | 79 Michael A. McDonnell 3. Identity Articulated: British Settlers, Black Caribs, and the Politics of Indigeneity on St. Vincent, 1763–1797 | 109 Brooke N. Newman 4. Religion, Race, and the Formation of Pan-Indian Identities in the Brothertown Movement, 1700–1800 | 151 Linford D. Fisher 5. “Decoying Them Within”: Creek Gender Identities and the Subversion of Civilization | 187 Felicity Donohoe Part 2. Asserting Native Identities through Politics, Work, and Migration 6. Mastering Language: Liberty, Slavery, and Native Resistance in the Early Nineteenth-Century South | 209 James Taylor Carson 7. Resistance and Removal: Yaqui and Navajo Identities in the Southwest Borderlands | 235 Claudia B. Haake 8. Progressivism and Native American Self-Expression in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century | 273 Joy Porter 9. Mixed-Descent Indian Identity and Assimilation Policy | 297 Katherine Ellinghaus 10. “All Go to the Hop Fields”: The Role of Migratory and Wage Labor in the Preservation of Indigenous Pacific Northwest Culture | 317 Vera Parham Part 3. Twentieth-Century Reflections on Indigenous and Pan-Indian Identities 11. Tribal Institution Building in the Twentieth Century | 349 Duane Champagne 12.Disease and the “Other”: The Role of Medical Imperialism in Oceania | 385 Kerri A. Inglis 13. “Why Injun Artist Me”: Acee Blue Eagle’s Diasporic Performative | 411 Bill Anthes 14.Asserting a Global Indigenous Identity: Native Activism Before and After the Cold War | 443 Daniel M. Cobb 15. From Tribal to Indian: American Indian Identity in the Twentieth Century | 473 Donald L. Fixico Contributors | 497 Index | 503 ...