Main entry:

Simpson, Audra, 1969- author.

Title & Author:

Mohawk interruptus : political life across the borders of settler states / Audra Simpson.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
©2014

Description:

xiii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-249) and index.
Indigenous interruptions : Mohawk nationhood, citizenship, and the state -- A brief history of land, meaning, and membership in Iroquoia and Kahnawà:ke -- Constructing Kahnawà:ke as an "out-of-the-way" place : Ely S. Parker, Lewis Henry Morgan, and the writing of the Iroquois confederacy -- Ethnographic refusal : anthropological need -- Borders, cigarettes, and sovereignty -- The gender of the flint : Mohawk nationhood and citizenship in the face of empire -- Interruptus -- Appendix: A note on materials and methodology.
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), Best First Book, 2014.

Summary:

"Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology. Combining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawà:ke, a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec, Audra Simpson examines their struggles to articulate and maintain political sovereignty through centuries of settler colonialism. The Kahnawà:ke Mohawks are part of the Haudenosaunee or Iroquois Confederacy. Like many Iroquois peoples, they insist on the integrity of Haudenosaunee governance and refuse American or Canadian citizenship. Audra Simpson thinks through this politics of refusal, which stands in stark contrast to the politics of cultural recognition. Tracing the implications of refusal, Simpson argues that one sovereign political order can exist nested within a sovereign state, albeit with enormous tension around issues of jurisdiction and legitimacy. Finally, Simpson critiques anthropologists and political scientists, whom, she argues, have too readily accepted the assumption that the colonial project is complete. Belying that notion, Mohawk Interruptus calls for and demonstrates more robust and evenhanded forms of inquiry into indigenous politics in the teeth of settler governance."--Publisher information.

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ISBN:

9780822356431 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0822356430 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780822356554 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0822356554 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780822376781 (ebook)
0822376784

Subject:

Mohawk Indians Québec (Province) Kahnawake Indian Reserve Ethnic identity.
Mohawk Indians Québec (Province) Kahnawake Indian Reserve History.
Indigenous peoples Canada Ethnic identity.
Indigenous peoples Canada History.
Native peoples Québec (Province) Kahnawake Indian Reserve Ethnic identity.
Native peoples Québec (Province) Kahnawake Indian Reserve History.
Mohawk Identité ethnique Québec (Province) Kahnawake (Réserve indienne)
Mohawk Québec (Province) Kahnawake (Réserve indienne) Histoire.
Peuples autochtones Canada Histoire.
Indigenous peoples Ethnic identity
Indigenous peoples
Mohawk Indians
Mohawk Indians Ethnic identity
Mohawk
Gruppenidentität
Grenzgebiet
Staatsangehörigkeit
Widerstand
Canada
Québec Kahnawake Indian Reserve
Kahnawake Indian Reserve

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316725
Call No.: 316725
Copy: 1
Status: Available