Mark My Words Native Women Mapping Our Nations

Dominant history would have us believe that colonialism belongs to a previous era that has long come to an end. But as Native people become mobile, reservation lands become overcrowded and the state seeks to enforce means of containment, closing its borders to incoming, often indigenous, immigrants. In Mark My Words, Mishuana Goeman traces settler colonialism as an enduring form of gendered spatial violence, demonstrating how it persists in the contemporary context of neoliberal globalization. The book argues that it is vital to refocus the efforts of Native nations beyond replicating settler models of territory, jurisdiction, and race. Through an examination of twentieth-century Native women's poetry and prose, Goeman illuminates how these works can serve to remap settler geographies and center Native knowledges. She positions Native women as pivotal to how our nations, both tribal and nontribal, have been imagined and mapped, and how these women play an ongoing role in decolonization. In a strong and lucid voice, Goeman provides close readings of literary texts, including those of E. Pauline Johnson, Esther Belin, Joy Harjo, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Heid Erdrich. In addition, she places these works in the framework of U.S. and Canadian Indian law and policy. Her charting of women's struggles to define themselves and their communities reveals the significant power in all of our stories.Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Gendered Geographies and Narrative Markings -- Chapter 1: "Remember What You Are": Gendering Citizenship, the Indian Act, and (Re)mapping the Settler Nation-State -- Chapter 2: (Re)routing Native Mobility, Uprooting Settler Spaces in the Poetry of Esther Belin -- Chapter 3: From the Stomp Grounds on Up: Indigenous Movement and the Politics of Globalization -- Chapter 4: "Someday a Story Will Come": Rememorative Futures -- Conclusion: "She Can Map Herself Like a Country She Discovers" -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- YDominant history would have us believe that colonialism belongs to a previous era that has long come to an end. But as Native people become mobile, reservation lands become overcrowded and the state seeks to enforce means of containment, closing its borders to incoming, often indigenous, immigrants. In Mark My Words, Mishuana Goeman traces settler colonialism as an enduring form of gendered spatial violence, demonstrating how it persists in the contemporary context of neoliberal globalization. The book argues that it is vital to refocus the efforts of Native nations beyond replicating settler models of territory, jurisdiction, and race. Through an examination of twentieth-century Native women's poetry and prose, Goeman illuminates how these works can serve to remap settler geographies and center Native knowledges. She positions Native women as pivotal to how our nations, both tribal and nontribal, have been imagined and mapped, and how these women play an ongoing role in decolonization. In a strong and lucid voice, Goeman provides close readings of literary texts, including those of E. Pauline Johnson, Esther Belin, Joy Harjo, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Heid Erdrich. In addition, she places these works in the framework of U.S. and Canadian Indian law and policy. Her charting of women's struggles to define themselves and their communities reveals the significant power in all of our stories.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries

The tools of a cartographic poet: unmapping settler colonialism in Joy Harjo's poetry

This essay looks at alternatives to the Cartesian forms of mapping that have come to structure settler colonial geographies. The poetry of Joy Harjo enables an engagement with concepts of spatial justice from an Indigenous feminist practice. I place Harjo's poetry into multiple conversations with various tribal stories and geographies, thus illuminating constellations of human relationships to each other and to land and their complexity. Settler colonialism is about putting into place settler understanding of geography. These are always gendered practices. Language and concepts of storied land enable us to push for a spatial justice that unpacks settler produced knowledges. It is this type of focus on land that engenders my desire to (re)map socialities that will materially and mentally sustain future Indigenous generations