With a section on ‘Settler colonialism and the transformation and regulation of water’: Kate A. Berry, Sue Jackson, Teresa Cavazos Cohn, Kenichi Matsui, ‘Indigenous water histories II: water histories and the cultural politics of water for contemporary Indigenous groups’, Water History, 2017 | settler colonial studies blog

With a section on ‘Settler colonialism and the transformation and regulation of water’: Kate A. Berry, Sue Jackson, Teresa Cavazos Cohn, Kenichi Matsui, ‘Indigenous water histories II: water histories and the cultural politics of water for contemporary Indigenous groups’, Water History, 2017

22Feb17

Excerpt: This second special issue extends coverage to additional Indigenous groups and further examines water histories associated with: the Lumbee and Tuscarora Indians of North Carolina, U.S., as researched by William Maxwell; the Andean people of Tabacundo, Ecuador, as researched by Juan Pablo Hidalgo, Rutgerd Boelens, and Jeroen Vos; the Ngai Tahu (Maori) of the Waitaki River basin, South Island, New Zealand, as researched by Gail Tipa and Kyle Nelson; the Puyallup Tribe of the Pacific Northwest, U.S., as researched by Amory Ballantine; and the Yaqui people of Sonora, Mexico, as researched by Raquel Padilla Ramos and Jose Moctezuma Zamarron. While paying close attention to the significance of rivers, swamps, estuaries, irrigation, and other water systems for these Indigenous communities, each of the authors also stress the dynamics of settler colonialism within which conflicts over water arose and Indigenous resistance and re-appropriation took place. In other words, these articles examine the cultural politics of water from a historical perspective.

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