Decolonizing Native Histories
Collaboration, Knowledge, and Language in the Americas
1st Edition
Published on 30. December 2011
272 pages
978-0-8223-9485-3 (ISBN)
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An interdisciplinary collection that addresses the racial and ethnic politics of knowledge production and indigenous activism in the Americas, this book analyzes the relationship of language to power and advocates for collaboration between community members, scholars, and activists that prioritize the right of Native people to decide how their knowledge is used.
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Decolonizing Native Histories
Collaboration, Knowledge, and Language in the Americas
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Florencia E. Mallon is the Julieta Kirkwood Professor of History and Latin American Studies and Chair of the History Department at the University of Wisconsin. She is the author of numerous books, including Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche Indigenous Community of Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean State, 1906-2000 and the editor and translator of Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalef's When a Flower is Reborn: The Life and Times of a Mapuche Feminist, both published by Duke University Press.
Content
About the Series vii
Introduction. Decolonizing Knowledge, Language, and Narrative / Florencia E. Mallon 1
Part One. Land, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination 21
Hawaiian Nationhood, Self-Determination, and International Law / J. Kehaulani Kauanui 27
Issues of Land and Sovereignty: The Uneasy Relationship between Chile and Rapa Nui / Riet Delsing 54
Part Two. Indigenous Writing and Experiences with Collaboration 79
Quechua Knowledge, Orality, and Writings: The Newspaper Conosur Nawpagamn / Fernando Garcés V. 85
Collaboration and Historical Writing: Challenges for the Indigenous-Academic Dialogue / Joanne Rappaport and Abelardo Ramos Pacho 122
The Taller Tzotzil of Chiapas, Mexico: A Native Language Publishing Project, 1985-2002 / Jan Rus and Diane L. Rus 144
Part Three. Generations of Indigenous Activism and Internal Debates 175
Dangerous Decolonizing: Indians and Blacks and the Legacy of Jim Crow / Brian Klopotek 179
Nationalist Contradictions: Pan-Mayanism, Representations of the Past, and the Reproduction of Inequalities of Guatemala / Edgar Esquit 196
Conclusion 219
References 221
Contributors 243
Index 247
Introduction. Decolonizing Knowledge, Language, and Narrative / Florencia E. Mallon 1
Part One. Land, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination 21
Hawaiian Nationhood, Self-Determination, and International Law / J. Kehaulani Kauanui 27
Issues of Land and Sovereignty: The Uneasy Relationship between Chile and Rapa Nui / Riet Delsing 54
Part Two. Indigenous Writing and Experiences with Collaboration 79
Quechua Knowledge, Orality, and Writings: The Newspaper Conosur Nawpagamn / Fernando Garcés V. 85
Collaboration and Historical Writing: Challenges for the Indigenous-Academic Dialogue / Joanne Rappaport and Abelardo Ramos Pacho 122
The Taller Tzotzil of Chiapas, Mexico: A Native Language Publishing Project, 1985-2002 / Jan Rus and Diane L. Rus 144
Part Three. Generations of Indigenous Activism and Internal Debates 175
Dangerous Decolonizing: Indians and Blacks and the Legacy of Jim Crow / Brian Klopotek 179
Nationalist Contradictions: Pan-Mayanism, Representations of the Past, and the Reproduction of Inequalities of Guatemala / Edgar Esquit 196
Conclusion 219
References 221
Contributors 243
Index 247
