Native Lands

Culture and Gender in Indigenous Territorial Claims

Shari M. Huhndorf

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9780520400191
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

Native Lands analyzes the role of visual and literary culture in contemporary Indigenouscampaigns for territorial rights. In the post-1960s era, Indigenous artists and writers have created works that align with the goals and strategies of new Native land-based movements. These worksrepresent Native histories and epistemologies in ways that complement activist endeavors, whilealso probing the limits of these political projects, especially with regard to gender. The socialmarginalization of Native women was integral to dispossession. And yet its enduringconsequences have remained largely neglected, even in Native organizing, as a pressing concernassociated with the status of Indigenous people in settler nation-states. The cultural worksdiscussed in this book provide an urgent Indigenous feminist rethinking of Native politics thatexposes the innate gendered dimensions of ongoing settler colonialism. They insist thatIndigenous campaigns for territorial rights must entail gender justice for Native women.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Terminology
• Introduction: Native Lands
• 1. Bodies of Land: Culture and Gender in Indigenous Dispossession
• 2. “Mapping by Words”: Cartography in Tracks and Solar Storms
• 3. Scenes from the Fringe: Gendered Violence and the Geographies of Indigenous Feminism
• 4. Contested Landscapes: Kent Monkman, Zacharias Kunuk, and the Art of Indigenous History
• Conclusion: Bodies of Land, Redux
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index