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Settler Cannabis
Young countercultural back-to-the-land settlers flocked to
northwestern California beginning in the 1960s, and by the 1970s,
unregulated cannabis production proliferated on Indigenous lands.
As of 2021, the California cannabis economy was valued at $3.5
billion. In Settler Cannabis , Kaitlin Reed demonstrates
how this \"green rush\" is only the most recent example of settler
colonial resource extraction and wealth accumulation. Situating the
cannabis industry within this broader legacy, the author traces
patterns of resource rushing-first gold, then timber, then fish,
and now cannabis-to reveal the ongoing impacts on Indigenous
cultures, lands, waters, and bodies.
Reed shares this history to inform the path toward an
alternative future, one that starts with the return of land to
Indigenous stewardship and rejects the commodification and control
of nature for profit. Combining archival research with testimonies
and interviews with tribal members, tribal employees, and settler
state employees, Settler Cannabis offers a groundbreaking
analysis of the environmental consequences of cannabis cultivation
that foregrounds Indigenous voices, experiences, and histories.
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Settler city limits : indigenous resurgence and colonial violence in the urban prairie West
\"While cities like Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Saskatoon, Rapid City, Edmonton, Missoula, Regina, and Tulsa are places where Indigenous marginalization has been most acute, they have also long been sites of Indigenous placemaking and resistance to settler colonialism. Settler City Limits addresses urban struggles involving Anishinabek, Cree, Creek, Dakota, Flathead, Lakota, and Métis peoples. Collectively, these studies showcase how Indigenous people in the city resist ongoing processes of colonial dispossession and create spaces for themselves and their families. Working at intersections of Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, urban studies, geography, and sociology, this book examines how the historical and political conditions of settler colonialism have shaped urban development in the Canadian Prairies and American Great Plains. Settler City Limits frames cities as Indigenous spaces and places, both in terms of the historical geographies of the regions in which they are embedded and with respect to ongoing struggles for land, life, and self-determination.\"--Page [4] of cover.
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An Infinity of Nations
An Infinity of Nations explores the formation and development of a Native New World in North America. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, indigenous peoples controlled the vast majority of the continent while European colonies of the Atlantic World were largely confined to the eastern seaboard. To be sure, Native North America experienced far-reaching and radical change following contact with the peoples, things, and ideas that flowed inland following the creation of European colonies on North American soil. Most of the continent's indigenous peoples, however, were not conquered, assimilated, or even socially incorporated into the settlements and political regimes of this Atlantic New World. Instead, Native peoples forged a New World of their own. This history, the evolution of a distinctly Native New World, is a foundational story that remains largely untold in histories of early America.Through imaginative use of both Native language and European documents, historian Michael Witgen recreates the world of the indigenous peoples who ruled the western interior of North America. The Anishinaabe and Dakota peoples of the Great Lakes and Northern Great Plains dominated the politics and political economy of these interconnected regions, which were pivotal to the fur trade and the emergent world economy. Moving between cycles of alliance and competition, and between peace and violence, the Anishinaabeg and Dakota carved out a place for Native peoples in modern North America, ensuring not only that they would survive as independent and distinct Native peoples but also that they would be a part of the new community of nations who made the New World.
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The nature of empires and the empires of nature : Indigenous peoples and the Great Lakes environment
Explores the power of Nature and the attempts by Empires (United States, Canada, and Britain) to control it from Indigenous or Indigenous influenced perspectives. This title hopes to inspire ways of looking at the Great Lakes watershed and the people and empires contained within it.
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The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763
A truly continental history in both its geographic and political
scope, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire,
1713-1763 investigates eighteenth-century diplomacy involving
North America and links geographic ignorance about the American
West to Europeans' grand geopolitical designs. Breaking from
scholars' traditional focus on the Atlantic world, Paul W. Mapp
demonstrates the centrality of hitherto understudied western
regions to early American history and shows that a Pacific focus is
crucial to understanding the causes, course, and consequences of
the Seven Years' War.
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Crafting History in the Northern Plains
The histories of post-1500 American Indian and First Nations societies reflect a dynamic interplay of forces. Europeans introduced new technologies, new economic systems, and new social forms, but those novelties were appropriated, resisted, modified, or ignored according to indigenous meanings, relationships, and practices that originated long before Europeans came to the Americas. A comprehensive understanding of the changes colonialism wrought must therefore be rooted in trans-Columbian native histories that span the centuries before and after the advent of the colonists.
InCrafting History in the Northern PlainsMark D. Mitchell illustrates the crucial role archaeological methods and archaeological data can play in producing trans-Columbian histories. Combining an in-depth analysis of the organization of stone tool and pottery production with ethnographic and historical data, Mitchell synthesizes the social and economic histories of the native communities located at the confluence of the Heart and Missouri rivers, home for more than five centuries to the Mandan people.
Mitchell is the first researcher to examine the impact of Mandan history on the developing colonial economy of the Northern Plains. InCrafting History in the Northern Plains,he demonstrates the special importance of native history in the 1400s and 1500s to the course of European colonization.
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Native tongues : colonialism and race from encounter to the reservation
\"Native Tongues explores the morally entangled territory of language and race as it relates the intellectual history of encounters between whites and Native Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Misunderstandings about the differences between European and indigenous American languages strongly influenced whites' beliefs about the descent and capabilities of Native Americans. These beliefs would play an important role in the subjugation of Native peoples as the United States pursued its 'manifest destiny' of westward expansion\"--Provided by publisher.
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Decolonizing Indigenous Histories
Decolonizing Indigenous Historiesmakes a vital contribution to the decolonization of archaeology by recasting colonialism within long-term indigenous histories. Showcasing case studies from Africa, Australia, Mesoamerica, and North and South America, this edited volume highlights the work of archaeologists who study indigenous peoples and histories at multiple scales.The contributors explore how the inclusion of indigenous histories, and collaboration with contemporary communities and scholars across the subfields of anthropology, can reframe archaeologies of colonialism. The cross-cultural case studies employ a broad range of methodological strategies-archaeology, ethnohistory, archival research, oral histories, and descendant perspectives-to better appreciate processes of colonialism. The authors argue that these more complicated histories of colonialism contribute not only to understandings of past contexts but also to contemporary social justice projects.In each chapter, authors move beyond an academic artifice of \"prehistoric\" and \"colonial\" and instead focus on longer sequences of indigenous histories to better understand colonial contexts. Throughout, each author explores and clarifies the complexities of indigenous daily practices that shape, and are shaped by, long-term indigenous and local histories by employing an array of theoretical tools, including theories of practice, agency, materiality, and temporality.Included are larger integrative chapters by Kent Lightfoot and Patricia Rubertone, foremost North American colonialism scholars who argue that an expanded global perspective is essential to understanding processes of indigenous-colonial interactions and transitions.
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