... five Amity A. Doolittle REDEFINING NATIVE CUSTOMARY LAW Struggles over Property Rights between Native Peoples and Colonial Rulers in Sabah, Malaysia, 1950–1996 In this essay I explore the dynamic relationship between native cus- tomary law, colonial...

...  Part II Native Historians Sources, Frameworks, and Authorship  C erha 5pt Chimalpahin and Why Women Matter in History Susan Schroeder By any standard, the seventeenth-­century Nahua historian...

...  C erha 2pt The Brothers Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and Bartolomé de Alva Two “Native” Intellectuals of Seventeenth-­Century Mexico John Frederick Schwaller In the waning decade of the sixteenth century and the first...

... This chapter focuses on the legal status of multiracial people in British Central Africa and how they challenged categories of native and non-native by fitting into neither. This chapter examines colonial state commissions that addressed these communities from the 1930s through the...

... This chapter focuses on the legal status of multiracial people in British Central Africa and how they challenged categories of native and non-native by fitting into neither. C rh 4apte...

... CHAPTER 5 AMERICAN FOLK IMPERIALISM AND NATIVE GENOCIDE IN SOUTHWEST OREGON, 1851–1859 Gray H. Whaley By the 1850s many American colonials believed that their constitutionally enshrined...

... PART IV (RE)IMAGININGS CHAPTER 12 COLONIAL GENOCIDE AND HISTORICAL TRAUMA IN NATIVE NORTH AMERICA Complicating Contemporary Attributions Joseph P. Gone My research, situated in clinical, community, and...

...line, the lands of the Kumeyaay, Cocopah, Tohono O’odham, and Texas Kicka- poo actually straddle the border. As many as 60 percent of borderlands native peoples live in poverty, while most of the rest hover just above the poverty line. In Mexico, tribes aboriginal to the borderlands face an even...

...The Comity Agreement: Missionization of Alaska Native People Maria Shaa Tláa Williams (Tlingit) The following selection is an excerpt from an unpublished chapter on the effects of Christian missionaries and mission schools on Alaska Native people. The twin hall- marks of European...

...Undermining Our Tribal Governments: The Stripping of Land, Resources, and Rights from Alaska Native Nations Evon Peter (Neetsaii Gwich’in Athabascan and Jewish) This essay focuses on the relationship between resource exploitation and its associated erosion of traditional indigenous...

...A Brief History of Native Solidarity Maria Shaa Tláa Williams (Tlingit) This article was originally written for the Tundra Times in a three-part series in October 1996 to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN). It focuses on the statewide Native...

... III Worldviews: Alaska Native and Indigenous Epistemologies Epistemology (from the Greek word epistēmē or “knowledge” and ology or “the study of”) is a branch of philosophy that deals with...

... IV Native Arts: A Weaving of Melody and Color Native American arts form a fundamental aspect of cultural expression and are deeply tied to science, technology, creative...

...The Alaska Native Arts Festival Tim Murphrey Tim Murphrey is one of the former student coordinators for the Festival of Alaska Native Arts. He was the main coordinator for more than three years and then a volun- teer for two years. The Festival of Alaska Native Arts started in 1973 and was...

...Alaska Native Literature: An Updated Introduction James Ruppert In this essay, James Ruppert reviews the publication of Alaska Native literature, ex- ploring common themes and structures as they reveal a changing response to colonial- ism and concern with identity and continuance. Alaska...

...Conclusion Building Cultural Knowledge in the Contemporary Native Novel I knew this was coming, so deal with it. Next thing is to call home. I call home and talk to my mother, tell her what happened. I had tried to warn her before hand that this was probably going to hap- pen, but when...

... Chapter  Indigenismo: The Return of the Native? Many nineteenth-century elite thinkers, as I argued in chapter , perceived a deep gulf between the pre-Columbian period and the indigenous pres- ent. Conventional accounts of the social and cultural movement known as...

... 9 The ‘‘Native Problem’’ f A few nights ago, a well-dressed man from the Foreign Ministry. . .ordered a beer, and proceeded to...

... two  Owning Death and Life Making “Indians” and “Eskimos” from Native Peoples Questioning the Early Not-­Yet-­Past For the issues that now confront the Native peoples of Labrador, history is not just what happened, nor how, nor even why. History...

... Lucy Eldersveld Murphy Native American and Métis Women as ‘‘Public Mothers’’ in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest Using the category of colonization to describe the historical conditions under which Native American and Creole communities lived in the nineteenth- century...