Title Mohawk interruptus : political life across the borders of settler states / Audra Simpson

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2014 ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 260 pages) : illustrations Contents Indigenous interruptions : Mohawk nationhood, citizenship, and the state -- A brief history of land, meaning, and membership in Iroquoia and Kahnawà:ke -- Constructing Kahnawà:ke as an "out-of-the-way" place : Ely S. Parker, Lewis Henry Morgan, and the writing of the Iroquois confederacy -- Ethnographic refusal : anthropological need -- Borders, cigarettes, and sovereignty -- The gender of the flint : Mohawk nationhood and citizenship in the face of empire -- Interruptus Summary Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology. Combining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawà:ke, a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec, Audra Simpson examines their struggles to articulate and maintain political sovereignty through centuries of settler colonialism. The Kahnawà:ke Mohawks are part of the Haudenosaunee or Iroquois Confederacy. Like many Iroquois peoples, they insist on the integrity of Haudenosaunee governance and refuse American or Canadian citizenship. Audra Simpson thinks through this politics of refusal, which stands in stark contrast to the politics of cultural recognition. Tracing the implications of refusal, Simpson argues that one sovereign political order can exist nested within a sovereign state, albeit with enormous tension around issues of jurisdiction and legitimacy. Finally, Simpson critiques anthropologists and political scientists, whom, she argues, have too readily accepted the assumption that the colonial project is complete. Belying that notion, Mohawk Interruptus calls for and demonstrates more robust and evenhanded forms of inquiry into Indigenous politics in the teeth of settler governance Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-249) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL In English digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Lora Romero First Book Prize, 2015 Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), Best First Book, 2014 Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 1, 2022) Subject Mohawk Indians -- Québec (Province) -- Kahnawake Indian Reserve -- Ethnic identity Mohawk Indians -- Québec (Province) -- Kahnawake Indian Reserve -- History Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Ethnic identity Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- History HISTORY -- Canada -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies. Indigenous peoples -- Ethnic identity Indigenous peoples Mohawk Indians Mohawk Indians -- Ethnic identity Mohawk Gruppenidentität Grenzgebiet Staatsangehörigkeit Widerstand Canada Québec -- Kahnawake Indian Reserve Kahnawake Indian Reserve Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822376781 0822376784

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