Native Agency

Author : Aparajita Mukhopadhyay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315397080
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial Technology and 'Native' Agency written by Aparajita Mukhopadhyay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the impact of railways on colonial Indian society from the commencement of railway operations in the mid-nineteenth to the early decades of the twentieth century. The book represents a historiographical departure. Using new archival evidence as well as travelogues written by Indian railway travellers in Bengali and Hindi, this book suggests that the impact of railways on colonial Indian society were more heterogeneous and complex than anticipated either by India’s colonial railway builders or currently assumed by post-colonial scholars. At a related level, the book argues that this complex outcome of the impact of railways on colonial Indian society was a product of the interaction between the colonial context of technology transfer and the Indian railway passengers who mediated this process at an everyday level. In other words, this book claims that the colonised ‘natives’ were not bystanders in this process of imposition of an imperial technology from above. On the contrary, Indians, both as railway passengers and otherwise influenced the nature and the direction of the impact of an oft-celebrated ‘tool of Empire’. The historiographical departures suggested in the book are based on examining railway spaces as social spaces – a methodological index influenced by Henri Lefebvre’s idea of social spaces as means of control, domination and power.

Author : Valerie Lambert
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452968225
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native Agency written by Valerie Lambert and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when American Indians take over an institution designed to eliminate them? The Bureau of Indian Affairs was hatched in the U.S. Department of War to subjugate and eliminate American Indians. Yet beginning in the 1970s, American Indians and Alaska Natives took over and now run the agency. Choctaw anthropologist Valerie Lambert argues that, instead of fulfilling settler-colonial goals, the Indians in the BIA have been leveraging federal power to fight settler colonialism, battle white supremacy, and serve the interests of their people. Although the missteps and occasional blunders of the Indians in the BIA have at times damaged the federal–Indian relationship and fueled the ire of their people, and although the BIA is massively underfunded, Indians began crafting the BIA into a Native agency by reformulating the meanings of concepts that lay at its heart—concepts such as tribal sovereignty, treaties, the trust responsibility, and Indian land. At the same time, they pursued actions to strengthen and bolster tribes, to foster healing, to fight the many injustices Indians face, and to restore the Indian land base. This work provides an essential national-level look at an intriguing and impactful form of Indigenous resistance. It describes, in great detail, the continuing assaults made on Native peoples and tribal sovereignty in the United States during the twenty-first century, and it sketches the visions of the future that Indians at the BIA and in Indian Country have been crafting for themselves.

Author : Coppélie Cocq
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295746610
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sámi Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic North written by Coppélie Cocq and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital media–GIFs, films, TED Talks, tweets, and more–have become integral to daily life and, unsurprisingly, to Indigenous people’s strategies for addressing the historical and ongoing effects of colonization. In Sámi Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic North, Thomas DuBois and Coppélie Cocq examine how Sámi people of Norway, Finland, and Sweden use media to advance a social, cultural, and political agenda anchored in notions of cultural continuity and self-determination. Beginning in the 1970s, Sámi have used Sámi-language media—including commercially produced musical recordings, feature and documentary films, books of literature and poetry, and magazines—to communicate a sense of identity both within the Sámi community and within broader Nordic and international arenas. In more contemporary contexts—from YouTube music videos that combine rock and joik (a traditional Sámi musical genre) to Twitter hashtags that publicize protests against mining projects in Sámi lands—Sámi activists, artists, and cultural workers have used the media to undo layers of ignorance surrounding Sámi livelihoods and rights to self-determination. Downloadable songs, music festivals, films, videos, social media posts, images, and tweets are just some of the diverse media through which Sámi activists transform how Nordic majority populations view and understand Sámi minority communities and, more globally, how modern states regard and treat Indigenous populations.

Author : Valerie Lambert
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803206682
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choctaw Nation written by Valerie Lambert and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choctaw Nation is a story of tribal nation building in the modern era. Valerie Lambert treats nation-building projects as nothing new to the Choctaws of southeastern Oklahoma, who have responded to a number of hard-hitting assaults on Choctaw sovereignty and nationhood by rebuilding their tribal nation.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004468102
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visual Culture and Indigenous Agency in the Early Americas written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how visual arts functioned in the indigenous pre- and post-conquest New World as vehicles of social, religious, and political identity.

Author : British India Society (London, England)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evidences Relating to the Efficiency of Native Agency in India written by British India Society (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. M. TREW
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa wasted by Britain, and restored by native agency; in a letter to the ... Bishop of London written by J. M. TREW and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bengal British India Society (CALCUTTA)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evidences relative to the Efficiency of Native Agency in the administration of the affairs of this country written by Bengal British India Society (CALCUTTA) and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John McCannon Trew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa Wasted by Britain, and Restored by Native Agency, in a Letter to the Right Honourable and Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London written by John McCannon Trew and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Douglas K. Miller
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469651394
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indians on the Move written by Douglas K. Miller and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-02-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program, which encouraged the mass migration of roughly 100,000 Native American people from rural to urban areas. At the time the program ended, many groups--from government leaders to Red Power activists--had already classified it as a failure, and scholars have subsequently positioned the program as evidence of America's enduring settler-colonial project. But Douglas K. Miller here argues that a richer story should be told--one that recognizes Indigenous mobility in terms of its benefits and not merely its costs. In their collective refusal to accept marginality and destitution on reservations, Native Americans used the urban relocation program to take greater control of their socioeconomic circumstances. Indigenous migrants also used the financial, educational, and cultural resources they found in cities to feed new expressions of Indigenous sovereignty both off and on the reservation. The dynamic histories of everyday people at the heart of this book shed new light on the adaptability of mobile Native American communities. In the end, this is a story of shared experience across tribal lines, through which Indigenous people incorporated urban life into their ideas for Indigenous futures.