AltaMira Press
Pages: 208
Trim: 6½ x 9
978-0-7591-0799-1 • Paperback • June 2005 • $47.00 • (£36.00)
978-0-7591-1480-7 • eBook • June 2005 • $44.50 • (£34.00)
Duane Champagne is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Native Nations Law and Policy Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. Karen Jo Torjesen is Dean of the School of Religion, and Margo L. Goldsmith Professor of Women's Studies in Religion, Claremont Graduate University. Susan Steiner is Associate Vice President for Research and Sponsored Programs at Claremont Graduate University and has received degrees in both literature and religion. She has long been active in civil rights, grass roots community, and political, as well as academic and cultural, issues. A writer, as well as a speaker, she has given workshops throughout the United States and has a novel and play in progress.
1 Preface
2 Part I: Indigenous Identity and the State
3 Chapter 1: Rethinking Native Relations with Contemporary Nation-States
4 Chapter 2: Crossing Borders/Border Crossings: Native American Identity
5 Chapter 3: Status Indian: Who Defines You?
6 Chapter 4: Discussion of Indigenous Identity and the State
7 Part II: Culture and Economics
8 Chapter 5: The Culture of Leadership: Indigenous Leadership in a Changing Economy
9 Chapter 6: Doing our Share: Employment and Entrepreneurship in Canada's Aboriginal Community
10 Chapter 7: Discussion of Culture and Economics
11 PART III. Trilateral Discussions: Canada, the United States and Mexico
12 Chapter 8: We Come to Ask for Justice, Not Crumbs
13 Chapter 9: Competing Narratives: Barriers Between Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian State
14 Chapter 10: The Mayan Quest for Pluricultural Autonomy in Mexico and Guatemala
15 Chapter 11: Indigenous, Cosmopolitan, and Integrative Medicine in the Americas
16 Chapter 12: Discussion of Trilateral Exchanges between Canada, the United States and Mexico
17 Index
18 About the Authors
Finally, a book on indigenous peoples of the North American continent, from the Arctic to Mesoamerica, a distinctly different version of the North American Free Trade Agreement—NAFTA—the cause of the Zapatista indigenous uprising in Mexico. Indigenous Peoples and the Modern State is a valuable addition to indigenous literature and will be a useful text for indigenous studies courses.
— Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, California State University, Hayward, Director of Indigenous World Association
Indigenous Peoples and the Modern State offers a broad and richly comparative study critically analyzing the generally contentious but occasionally cooperative relationships between aboriginal peoples and three contemporary states—U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Utilizing a 'trilateral' approach, the contributors focus on cultural identity, land, sovereignty, leadership, economics, intellectual property, and other topics that continue to animate the evolving relationship between Native nations and the states that formed in their midst.
— University of Minnesota
This innovative collection is the only one I know of that examines indigenous issues in all three North American states: Canada, the U.S., and Mexico. While the three situations are very different, they are ripe for comparative analysis. The lens here is wide-angled, providing welcome introductions to a host of issues from politics to economy, from culture to intellectual property and indigenous knowledge.
— Stephen Cornell
These essays and discussions collected fill a critical gap in our understanding of indigenous peoples. The collection, via comparative examination of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, break out of an overly narrow focus on indigenous peoples within one state, to subtly highlight the similarities and differences among indigenous peoples in various states.
— Thomas D. Hall, Lester M. Jones Professor of Sociology, DePauw University, and editor of A World-Systems Reader