Decolonizing Native Histories : : Collaboration, Knowledge, and Language in the Americas / / Florencia E. Mallon, Gladys McCormick.

Decolonizing Native Histories is an interdisciplinary collection that grapples with the racial and ethnic politics of knowledge production and indigenous activism in the Americas. It analyzes the relationship of language to power and empowerment, and advocates for collaborations between community me...

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Superior document:Narrating native histories
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Place / Publishing House:[s.l.] : : Duke University Press,, 2011.
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Narrating native histories
Physical Description:1 online resource (274 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • About the series
  • Introduction: Decolonizing Knowledge, Language, and Narrative
  • Part one. Land, Sovereignty, and Self- Determination
  • Introduction
  • Hawaiian Nationhood, Self- Determination, and International Law
  • Issues of Land and Sovereignty: The Uneasy Relationship between Chile and Rapa Nui
  • Part two. Indigenous Writing and Experiences with Collaboration
  • Introduction
  • Quechua Knowledge, Orality, and Writings: The Newspaper Conosur Ñawpagman
  • Collaboration and Historical Writing: Challenges for the Indigenous–Academic Dialogue
  • The Taller Tzotzil of Chiapas, Mexico: A Native Language Publishing Project, 1985–2002
  • Part Three. Generations of Indigenous Activism and Internal Debates
  • Introduction
  • Dangerous Decolonizing: Indians and Blacks and the Legacy of Jim Crow
  • Nationalist Contradictions: Pan- Mayanism, Representations of the Past, and the Reproduction of Inequalities in Guatemala
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Contributors
  • Index