ABSTRACT

The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History presents exciting new innovations in the dynamic field of Indigenous global history while also outlining ethical, political, and practical research.

Indigenous histories are not merely concerned with the past but have resonances for the politics of the present and future, ranging across vast geographical distances and deep time periods. The volume starts with an introduction that explores definitions of Indigenous peoples, followed by six thematic sections which each have a global spread: European uses of history and the positioning of Indigenous people as history’s outsiders; their migrations and mobilities; colonial encounters; removals and diasporas; memory, identities, and narratives; deep histories and pathways towards future Indigenous histories that challenge the nature of the history discipline itself. This book illustrates the important role of Indigenous history and Indigenous knowledges for contemporary concerns, including climate change, spirituality and religious movements, gender negotiations, modernity and mobility, and the meaning of ‘nation’ and the ‘global’. Reflecting the state of the art in Indigenous global history, the contributors suggest exciting new directions in the field, examine its many research challenges and show its resonances for a global politics of the present and future.

This book is invaluable reading for students in both undergraduate and postgraduate Indigenous history courses.

chapter 1|30 pages

History's Outsiders?

Global Indigenous Histories

part I|105 pages

A global perspective

chapter 2|23 pages

European uses of history

chapter 3|30 pages

Theoretical frontiers

chapter 4|25 pages

Indigenous peoples in Asia

A long history

chapter 5|25 pages

World conservation and genocidal frontiers

Global environmentalism, settler colonialism, and Indigenous humanity in the early twentieth century

part II|119 pages

Migrations and mobilities

chapter 7|29 pages

Singing to ancestors

Respecting and re-telling stories woven through ancient ancestral lands

chapter 9|20 pages

Voyagers from the Havai‘i diaspora

Polynesian mobility, 1760s–1850s

chapter 10|15 pages

Walking the Indigenous city

Colonial encounters at the heart of empire

part III|106 pages

Colonial encounters

chapter 11|20 pages

Treatied space

North American Indigenous treaties in a global context

chapter 14|20 pages

‘The case of Polly Indian’

Enslavement, Native ancestry, and the law in the British Caribbean

part IV|101 pages

Removals and diasporas

chapter 16|14 pages

Sexual removals

Indigenous genders and sexualities as territory

chapter 17|20 pages

Reimagining home

Indian removal, Native storytelling, and the search for belonging

chapter 18|20 pages

‘Because of her, we can’

Gender and diaspora in Australian exemption policies

chapter 19|24 pages

Damage and dispossession

Indigenous people and nuclear weapons on Bikini Atoll and the Pitjantjatjara lands, 1946 to 1988

chapter 20|21 pages

The bones of our mother

Adivasi dispossession in an Indian state

part V|104 pages

Memory, identities, and narratives

chapter 21|14 pages

Indigenous narratives, separations, denials, and memories

Moving beyond loss

chapter 22|19 pages

Remembering removal

Indigenous narratives of colonial collecting practices in the Gulf of Papua (Papua New Guinea)

chapter 24|26 pages

Subttsasa Biehtsevuomátjistema

Recalling the memories and stories from our little pine forest

chapter 25|19 pages

Assisting Indigenous resistance through secularism

Legal limits to Christianisation in Canada (1867–1939)

part VI|190 pages

Pathways towards future Indigenous histories

chapter 26|32 pages

Transmission's end?

Cataclysm and chronology in Indigenous oral tradition

chapter 27|26 pages

Archaeology, hybrid knowledge, and community engagement in Africa

Thoughts on decolonising practice

chapter 33|23 pages

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