ABSTRACT
International Association of Genocide Scholars conference was held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, a city with a long history of intransigence with regard to First Nations rights; the conference theme was "Time, Movement, and Space: Genocide Studies and Indigenous Peoples." The statement of the Sagkeeng elder underscored a shift in indigenous resistance practices, one that has moved from centralizing the relationship to colonizing cultures to centralizing the sanctity of the indigenous relationship to cultures of origin. African-derived autochthonomies signify mobile indigenous autochthonies defined by the political exigency of a cultural sovereignty unanchored in a particular, local space. Pan-Africanism, according to Zeleza, was "born and bred in the diaspora where the collective racialized subjugation and the consciousness of Africaness first developed" and was, in itself, a "burgeoning transnational identity." This chapter focuses on the substance of the exchanges the texts perform. It shows that how they facilitate and cultivate transnational identities in ways that illuminate the subjectivities of African-descended peoples.
