jodi byrd on the indigenous discourse of anti-settler colonialism in the united states

11Oct11

Jodi A. Byrd, Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Settler Colonialism (University of Minnesota Press, 2011).

Jodi A. Byrd explores how indigeneity functions as transit, a trajectory of movement serving as precedent within U.S. imperial history. Byrd contends that the colonization of American Indian and indigenous nations is the necessary ground to reimagine a future where the losses of indigenous peoples are visible, but they have agency to transform life on their lands and on their terms.