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Author Barnd, Natchee Blu, author.

Title Native space : geographic strategies to unsettle settler colonialism / Natchee Blu Barnd.

Publication Info. Corvallis, OR : Oregon State University Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 172 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series First peoples
First peoples (2010)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-163) and index.
Summary "Native Space explores how indigenous communities and individuals sustain and create geographies through place-naming, everyday cultural practices, and artistic activism, within the boundaries of the settler colonial nation of the United States. Diverging from scholarship that tends to treat indigenous geography as an analytical concept, Natchee Blu Barnd instead draws attention to the subtle manifestations of everyday cultural practices--the concrete and often mundane activities involved in the creation of indigenous space. What are the limits and potentials of indigenous acts of spatial production? Native Space argues that control over the notion of "Indianness" still sits at the center of how space is produced in a neocolonial nation, and shows how non-indigenous communities uniquely deploy Native identities in the direct construction of colonial geographies. In short, "the Indian" serves to create White space in concrete ways. Yet, Native geographies effectively reclaim indigenous identities, assert ongoing relations to the land, and refuse the claims of settler colonialism. Barnd creatively and persuasively uses original cartographic research and demographic data, a series of interrelated stories set in the Midwestern Plains states of Kansas and Oklahoma, an examination of visual art by contemporary indigenous artists, and discussions of several forms of indigenous activism to support his argument. With its highly original, interdisciplinary approach, Native Space makes a significant contribution to the literature in cultural and critical geography, comparative ethnic studies, indigenous studies, cultural studies, American Studies, and related fields."--Publisher description
Contents Introduction -- Inhabiting tribal communities -- Inhabiting Indianness in white communities -- The meaning of Set-tainte; or, making and unmaking indigenous geographies -- The art of native space -- The space of native art -- Afterword: Reclaiming indigenous geographies -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Subject United States -- Civilization -- Indian influences.
United States.
Civilization.
Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity.
Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity.
Indians of North America -- Land tenure.
Indians of North America -- Land tenure.
Cultural geography -- United States.
Cultural geography.
Indian art -- United States.
Indian art.
Names, Geographical -- United States.
Names, Geographical.
Civilization -- Indian influences.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Barnd, Natchee Blu. Native Space : Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism. Chicago : Oregon State University Press, ©2017 9780870719028
ISBN 0870719033
9780870719035 (electronic book)
9780870719028
0870719025