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		<title>Book Excerpt: &#8220;Indigenous Agency in the Amazon&#8221; by Gary Van Valen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The largest group of Indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon, the Mojos, has coexisted with non-Natives since the late 1600s, when they accepted Jesuit missionaries into their homeland, converted to Catholicism, and adapted their traditional lifestyle to the conventions of mission life. Nearly two hundred years later they faced two new challenges: liberalism and the rubber boom. In "Indigenous Agency in the Amazon: The Mojos in Liberal and Rubber-Boom Bolivia, 1842–1932," Gary Van Valen postulates that as ex-mission Indians who lived on a frontier, the Mojos had an expanded capacity to adapt that helped them meet these challenges.]]></description>
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		<title>Voices of Play: An Interview with Author Amanda Minks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natasha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the growing dialogue about Native language practices and revitalization, limited attention has been given to Indigenous children's everyday communication. "Voices of Play: Miskitu Children's Speech and Song on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua" is a study of multilingual play and performance among Miskitu children growing up on Corn Island, part of a multi-ethnic autonomous region on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. In the book, author Amanda Minks weaves together theories of culture and communication, creating a transdisciplinary dialogue that moves across intellectual geographies. In the following Q&#038;A, Minks explains why Corn Island is a particularly good place to study widespread processes of cultural creativity in response to colonialism and the complexities of Indigenous language use, cultural reproduction, and change.]]></description>
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		<title>Book Excerpt: Native and National in Brazil, by Tracy Devine Guzman</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 15:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natasha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In "Native and National in Brazil" Tracy Devine Guzmán examines the contested process of constructing Indianness from Brazil's independence to the present. Engaging issues ranging from citizenship and national security to the revolutionary potential of art and sustainable development, Devine Guzmán argues that the tensions between popular renderings of Indianness and lived Indigenous experiences are critical to the unfolding of Brazilian nationalism, on the one hand, and the growth of a Brazilian Indigenous movement, on the other. In the following excerpt from the epilogue, she discusses contemporary Indigenous assertions of sovereignty and self-representation, especially in the context of opposition to the controversial Belo Monte hydroelectric dam.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Blogger Shona Jackson: Belonging and Native Caribbean Identity</title>
		<link>http://www.firstpeoplesnewdirections.org/blog/?p=6938</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 15:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natasha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Multiethnic, multi-religious, creative, brilliant, and impoverished, where the riot of nature threatens every slab of concrete laid down against it, the Guyana I knew seemed in the United States subject to an unrelenting fiction and one that could not grant me true belonging anywhere in the world. These disavowals and fictions of identity led me to question how we as blacks, primarily in the Caribbean, come to belong: how we in other words become Indigenous and why and how certain exclusions or limits become essential to this process. It led to a rethinking of indigeneity not from the perspective of Native status, but from that of the techniques of settler power and how they inform the modes of belonging of those involuntarily brought to the new world, specifically enslaved and indentured peoples. ]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Blogger Beth Rose Middleton: Expanding Dialogues about Environmental Conservation and Indigenous Social Justice from the U.S. to the Caribbean</title>
		<link>http://www.firstpeoplesnewdirections.org/blog/?p=6892</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natasha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the 2011 publication of "Trust in the Land: New Directions in Tribal Conservation," land trusts in the United States have increasingly come together to discuss ways to support one another and to support the growth of Native land conservation. Today, Beth Rose Middleton, author of "Trust in the Land," provides an update on some of the latest developments in tribal conservation and land trusts. Middleton also details a new collaboration she’s fostering with the Garifuna people of Honduras in an effort to increase the global scope of her work to promote social justice, Indigenous rights, and thoughtful stewardship of land and cultural heritage.]]></description>
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		<title>Native American and Indigenous History at the Organization of American Historians</title>
		<link>http://www.firstpeoplesnewdirections.org/blog/?p=6829</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natasha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Historians gathered in San Francisco last week to attend the 2013 annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians. The meeting, which took the theme "Entangled Histories: Connections, Crossings, and Constraints in U.S. History," featured several panels that examined historical trends and future directions in the field of U.S. history. A panel organized by Donald Fixico on American Indian history included First Peoples authors Rose Stremlau ("Sustaining the Cherokee Family," UNC Press 2011) and Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert ("The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue," OSU Press 2012).]]></description>
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		<title>On healing, settler colonialism, and Hawaiʻi: How can we use Idle No More&#8217;s momentum to push for changes in education?</title>
		<link>http://www.firstpeoplesnewdirections.org/blog/?p=6795</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natasha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In "The Seeds We Planted: Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School," Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua explores the paradoxes of reasserting Indigenous knowledge within a school system that has historically underwritten settler colonialism. She also asks how Indigenous and settler peoples can work together to unmake settler-colonial logics of elimination and containment. Here, Goodyear-Kaʻōpua comments on ways Indigenous movements such as Idle No More can move to the next level of resurgence and transformation. ]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Blogger Paul Liffman: Silver, Water, and Resistance in Mexico’s Wirikuta Mining Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natasha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the 2011 publication of his book, "Huichol Territory and the Mexican Nation: Indigenous Ritual, Land Conflict, and Sovereignty Claims," author Paul M. Liffman has contributed a number of guest posts to the First Peoples blog on the Wixarika (Huichol) people’s fight for cultural rights and their efforts to ban large-scale silver mining near their principal sacred sites in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Here he expands upon those previous contributions and provides a timely update on the situation, highlighting how the Wirikuta desert has become an emblem of resistance to transnational extractive enterprises across the country. ]]></description>
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		<title>Book Excerpt: &#8220;Rim Country Exodus: A Story of Conquest, Renewal, and Race in the Making&#8221; by Daniel J. Herman</title>
		<link>http://www.firstpeoplesnewdirections.org/blog/?p=6633</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kdesandro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For thousands of years, humans have lived on the sprawling escarpment known as the Mogollon Rim, a stretch that separates the valleys of central Arizona from the mountains of the north. A vast portion of this dramatic landscape is the traditional home of the Dilzhe'e (Tonto Apache) and the Yavapai. "Rim Country Exodus: A Story of Conquest, Renewal, and Race in the Making" offers a compelling narrative of how—from 1864 to 1934—the Dilzhe'e and the Yavapai came to central Arizona, how they were conquered, how they were exiled, how they returned to their homeland, and how, through these events, they found renewal. The following excerpt from the book’s conclusion details how paternalism structured social relationships between Indigenous peoples and settlers, while at the same time influencing race and gender ideologies. ]]></description>
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		<title>Book Excerpt: &#8220;Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations&#8221; by Mishuana Goeman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natasha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In "Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations," Mishuana Goeman traces settler colonialism as an enduring form of gendered spatial violence enacted upon Native peoples. She argues that Native women have been pivotal to how nations have been imagined and mapped, and that these women play an ongoing role in decolonization. Through a close reading of Native American women’s writing, Goeman interrogates the use of historically and culturally situated spatial epistemologies, geographic metaphors, and the realities they produce. In the following excerpt from the introduction, Goeman examines the role maps played in advancing colonialism and the mapping of an “imperial imaginary” in order to foreground her discussions of spatial decolonization and the production of imaginative possibilities featured throughout the remainder of her book. ]]></description>
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