Red nation rising : from bordertown violence to native liberation /
Nick Estes, Melanie K. Yazzie, Jennifer Nez Denetdale, and David Correia.
- 1 online resource (xi, 150 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
"I can't fucking breathe!" -- Anti-indianism -- Indian killers -- Looting -- Counterinsurgency -- Settler scams -- Burn the village -- Don't go back to the reservation: a bordertown manifesto
Red Nation Rising is the first book ever to investigate and explain the violent dynamics of bordertowns. Bordertowns are white-dominated towns and cities that operate according to the same political and spatial logics as all other American towns and cities. The difference is that these settlements get their name from their location at the borders of current-day reservation boundaries, which separates the territory of sovereign Native nations from lands claimed by the United States. Bordertowns came into existence when the first US military forts and trading posts were strategically placed along expanding imperial frontiers to extinguish indigenous resistance and incorporate captured indigenous territories into the burgeoning nation-state. To this day, the US settler state continues to wage violence on Native life and land in these spaces out of desperation to eliminate the threat of Native presence and complete its vision of national consolidation "from sea to shining sea." This explains why some of the most important Native-led rebellions in US history originated in bordertowns and why they are zones of ongoing confrontation between Native nations and their colonial occupiers.
9781629638478
Indians of North America--Land tenure. Indians of North America--Government relations--History. Federal government--History.--United States Indians--Land tenure. Indian land transfers.