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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|105 pages
A global perspective
chapter 5|25 pages
World conservation and genocidal frontiers
part II|119 pages
Migrations and mobilities
chapter 7|29 pages
Singing to ancestors
part III|106 pages
Colonial encounters
chapter 14|20 pages
‘The case of Polly Indian’
part IV|101 pages
Removals and diasporas
chapter 17|20 pages
Reimagining home
chapter 19|24 pages
Damage and dispossession
part V|104 pages
Memory, identities, and narratives
chapter 22|19 pages
Remembering removal
chapter 24|26 pages
Subttsasa Biehtsevuomátjistema
chapter 25|19 pages
Assisting Indigenous resistance through secularism
part VI|190 pages
Pathways towards future Indigenous histories