Abstract: In light of biculturalism’s prevalence as a power-sharing agreement between New Zealand Maori and the Crown, any attempts to establish a state-sponsored project of multiculturalism have been treated by Maori with suspicion and controversy. This article presents cosmopolitanism as an appropriate solution to citizenship and cultural diversity in New Zealand that can coexist in […]

Abstract: This essay seeks to recover the ordinary and its analytical and decolonial potential within the extraordinary conditions created by settler colonialism. To do so, it investigates moments when Mohawks at Akwesasne, a community that straddles the US–Canada border, refused to acknowledge settler authority, paying particular attention to the relationship between their refusals and the […]

Excerpt: Approximately 100 Proclamation Boards (the Board) were introduced by the Lieutenant Governor of the day, George Arthur (after whom Port Arthur on the Tasman Peninsula is named). The purpose of these Boards was to communicate, via a four-strip pictogram, to the Indigenous peoples of the island colony that all people—black and white—were considered equal […]

Abstract: The purpose of this essay is, through an examination of the academic literature, to showcase what indigenous populations are known to have existed in the twentieth century (and into the present) in New York State beyond the officially recognized tribes. This essay thus discusses the nonrecognized indigenous communities within the state, and places a […]

Abstract: In this essay I argue that in order to persuade the U.S. government that it was unnecessary to remove them, members of the Iroquois Confederacy had to engage with the discourse of progress toward civilization the government used to justify the removal policy. In their appeals to remain within their ancestral homelands, the Iroquois […]

Abstract: On March 10, 1881, Walter Adair Duncan, the superintendent of the Cherokee Orphan Asylum between 1872 and 1884 and a leading Cherokee intellectual, made a bold declaration. Writing in the Cherokee Orphan Asylum Press, Duncan declared that the Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory had developed a system of public education that had become “the […]

Abstract: “More Destruction to These Family Ties” looks at the long history of non-Native intervention in the lives of Native American families. It maintains that the desire to educate and raise indigenous children culminated in the 1970s with a catastrophic quarter of Native American youth living away from their families and nations. This article argues […]

Abstract: British colonists treated Tasmanian Aborigines abominably during the early decades of the nineteenth century. Indeed, colonization resulted in the near annihilation of this ancient and unique people. Their fate, which understandably provokes feelings of sympathy and anger, has strongly influenced the literature on the ‘Black War’. The Aborigines are usually portrayed as the helpless […]

Abstract: This contribution attempts to discuss unintended, neglectful, or willful manipulations of Social Ecological Systems (SESs) by commercial stock farmers as part of an attempt to drive Aboriginal people from their lands into the hinterland thereby accepting or condoning their annihilation or demographic reduction. By displaying the different ways in which commercial stock farmers have […]

Abstract: American Indians experience forms of domination and resist them through a wide range of decolonizing processes that are commonly overlooked, misidentified, or minimally analyzed by American sociology. This inattention reflects the naturalizing use of minoritizing frameworks regarding tribal members and ethnic rather than political conceptions of American Indian nationhood, membership, and identity. Drawing upon […]