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Settler city limits Indigenous resurgence and colonial violence in the urban Prairie West edited by Heather Dorries (Carleton University), Robert Henry (University of Calgary), David Hugill (Carleton University), Tyler McCreary (Florida State University), and Julie Tomiak (Ryerson University)

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Editor:
Dorries, Heather 1979-  Search this
Henry, Robert 1980-  Search this
Hugill, David 1981-  Search this
McCreary, Tyler  Search this
Tomiak, Julie 1976-  Search this
Physical description:
1 online resource
Type:
Electronic resources
Electronic books
Place:
Prairie Provinces
Date:
2019
Notes:
ELEC copy Purchased from the NMAI Library Endowment
Elecresource
Summary:
"While cities like Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Saskatoon, Rapid City, Edmonton, Missoula, Regina, and Tulsa are places where Indigenous marginalization has been most acute, they have also long been sites of Indigenous placemaking and resistance to settler colonialism. Although such cities have been denigrated as "ordinary" or banal in the broader urban literature, they are exceptional sites to study Indigenous resurgence. The urban centres of the continental plains have featured Indigenous housing and food co-operatives, social service agencies, and schools. The American Indian Movement initially developed in Minneapolis in 1968, and Idle No More emerged in Saskatoon in 2013. The editors and authors of Settler City Limits, both Indigenous and settler, address urban struggles involving Anishinaabek, Cree, Creek, Dakota, Flathead, Lakota, and MeĢtis peoples. Collectively, these studies showcase how Indigenous people in the city resist ongoing processes of colonial dispossession and create spaces for themselves and their families. Working at intersections of Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, urban studies, geography, and sociology, this book examines how the historical and political conditions of settler colonialism have shaped urbandevelopment in the Canadian Prairies and American Plains. Settler City Limits frames cities as Indigenous spaces and places, both in terms of the historical geographies of the regions in which they are embedded, and with respect to ongoing struggles for land, life, and self-determination."-- Provided by publisher
Topic:
Social conflict  Search this
Native peoples  Search this
Native peoples--Urban residence  Search this
Native activists  Search this
Native peoples--Violence against  Search this
Native peoples--Social conditions  Search this
Native peoples--Government relations  Search this
Ethnic relations  Search this
Call number:
E78.P7 S48 2019 (Internet)
Restrictions & Rights:
1-user
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1145198