Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America

Published by Duke University Press 2014

Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America

Edited by: Alexander Laban Hinton , Andrew Woolford and Jeff Benvenuto

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822376149

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About this book

This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North America.

Author / Editor information

Andrew Woolford is Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Social Justice Research Coordinator at the University of Manitoba.

Jeff Benvenuto is a Ph.D. student in the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University, Newark.

Alexander Laban Hinton is the Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Professor of Anthropology and Global Affairs, and the UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University, Newark.

Theodore Fontaine is the author of Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools: A Memoir.

Reviews

“This is a welcome addition to the ongoing discussions in the increasingly sophisticated literature that explores the applicability, extent, and lasting significance of genocide in North America…. The editors deserve praise for the comparative dimensions of the volume, which look across time and space in North America and rightly anchor their project in the emerging field of critical genocide studies…. Highly recommended.”

-- C. R. King Choice

"Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America is a welcome revision of the long history of colonialism in North America... [It] could be used in undergraduate history courses to great effect."

-- Garrett W. Wright The History Teacher

“This volume provides a wide ranging perspective on current research and ongoing debates regarding colonial genocide in North America – highlighting a great diversity of approaches and conclusions and demonstrating the courage of those within the field to push the limits of prevailing understandings. The volume is all the more valuable for its inclusion of the research and findings of Indigenous scholars.”

-- Kerry A. Bailey Ethnic and Racial Studies

“In challenging fellow scholars, indigenous communities and wider society with the question of what genocide is, the contributors to this important collection have done a great service, presenting new ways of conceptualizing and perhaps reconciling our collective and often dark past with what could be a brighter future together.”

-- James Daschuk Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History

"Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America offers powerful and profound insights into the widespread and abundant abuse of genocide by European colonists and American and Canadian citizens and their governments toward indigenous peoples."

-- Joel R. Hyer Western Historical Quarterly

"For anyone curious about the true impact of Manifest Destiny, colonial expansionism, and settler societies, this book will open eyes and introduce an often-ignored reality.... This timely and valuable contribution will undoubtedly inform these debates and add to our understanding of the ways in which the destructive and often genocidal colonial practices and policies impacted the Indigenous populations of Canada and the United States."

-- Stefanie Kunze Canadian Journal of Native Studies

"What a timely anthology!... Such a survey is useful both for scholars who are fully engaged in genocide studies already and for those who want to consider how the field may apply to their research. More broadly, this volume could be a great benefit to scholars of genocide from outside North America who are looking for an up-to-date overview of the field for comparative purposes."

-- Brenden W. Rensink Ethnohistory

"This tightly packed anthology not only reviews the contemporary issues of and positions on colonial genocide in North America, but stands as a wedge of discourse around the histories and interpretations of group destruction as part of the civilizing project.... Woolford, Benvenuto, and Hinton’s collection serves to challenge the so-called Pax Americana of peaceful assimilation in a not quite post-colonial North America."

-- Christopher Davey Genocide Studies and Prevention

"Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America contributes to a growing chorus of indigenous scholars, genocide analysts, and Native leaders who are bringing this most important topic into greater clarity, and makes an excellent resource for academics and university courses to launch that discussion. I encourage you to read and utilize the work, continuing the rise of indigenous voices about genocide."

-- James V. Fenelon American Indian Culture and Research Journal

"This book deserves consideration by all historians whose work touches even tangentially on indigenous peoples and by those interested in genocide globally. Whether readers are skeptical of the term’s relevance in North America, or are engaged in debates not over if but how and when the term is deserved, this book merits their attention."

-- Paige Raibmon Journal of American History

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword Theodore Fontaine Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction. Jeff Benvenuto, Andrew Woolford, and Alexander Laban Hinton Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America Jeff Benvenuto, Andrew Woolford and Alexander Laban Hinton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. INTERSECTIONS AND TRAJECTORIES
Chapter 1. Discipline, Territory, and the Colonial Mesh: Indigenous Boarding Schools in the United States and Canada Andrew Woolford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Chapter 2. Global Capital, Violence, and the Making of a Colonial Shatter Zone Robbie Ethridge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Chapter 3. Peristerakis Genocide in Canada: A Relational View Christopher Powell and Julia Peristerakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
PART II. ERASURE AND LEGIBILITY
Chapter 4. California and Oregon’s Modoc Indians: How Indigenous Resistance Camouflages Genocide in Colonial Histories Benjamin Madley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Chapter 5. American Folk Imperialism and Native Genocide in Southwest Oregon, 1851–1859 Gray H. Whaley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Chapter 6. Memory, Erasure, and National Myth Tricia E. Logan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Chapter 7. Residential School Harm and Colonial Dispossession: What’s the Connection? Jeremy Patzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
PART III. TRANSFORMATIONS
Chapter 8. The Habit of Elimination: Indigenous Child Removal in Settler Colonial Nations in the Twentieth Century Margaret D. Jacobs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Chapter 9. Revisiting Choctaw Ethnocide and Ethnogenesis: The Creative Destruction of Colonial Genocide Jeff Benvenuto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
Chapter 10. Political Genocide: Killing Nations through Legislation and Slow-Moving Poison Kiera L. Ladner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
Chapter 11. Dispossession and Canadian Land Claims: Genocidal Implications of the Innu Nation Land Claim Colin Samson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
PART IV. (RE)IMAGININGS
Chapter 12. Colonial Genocide and Historical Trauma in Native North America: Complicating Contemporary Attributions Joseph P. Gone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Chapter 13. Buffalo Genocide in Nineteenth-Century North America: “Kill, Skin, and Sell” Tasha Hubbard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
Chapter 14. Genocide in the Indian Residential Schools: Canadian History through the Lens of the UN Genocide Convention David B. MacDonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	306
Afterword.Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America: A View from Critical Genocide Studies Alexander Laban Hinton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 360
Illustrations
- Other: 13 illustrations

eBook

Published: October 31, 2014
ISBN: 9780822376149