Native Diasporas

Gregory D. Smithers teaches history at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of three books, including Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780s–1890s. Brooke N. Newman is an assistant professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her articles have appeared in Gender and History and Slavery and Abolition.

"The essays in Native Diasporas offer fascinating case studies that simultaneously value local nuance and transnational/global contexualization across more than three centuries of history. They also offer fresh insights in the study of indigenous identities."-Joseph Genetin-Pilawa, Western Historical Quarterly "This work will become a seminal text for people studying in the field."-Paul Moon, Te Kaharoa "This text is not only a timely addition to the Native American/American Indian studies discourse, but it also introduces a fresh way of discussing indigeneity and the complicated experience of those communities impacted by settler colonialism."-Clementine Bordeaux, American Indian Culture and Research Journal "The essays in Native Diasporas address a tremendously important and complicated subject—Indigenous identity."—Barbara Krauthamer, author of Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South"In a powerful and timely way, Native Diasporas moves away from the 'frontier' as finite and from the 'middle ground' as an endpoint. Its essays pay attention to women's agency, gender issues, economic and political dynamics, the history of changing policies, and to Indigenous responses and engagements with settler colonialism."—Ann McGrath, director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at Australian National University and coauthor of How to Write History that People Want to Read

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceBrooke N. Newman and Gregory D. SmithersIntroduction: “What Is an Indian?”-The Enduring Question of American Indian IdentityGregory D. SmithersPart 1. Adapting Indigenous Identities for the Colonial Diaspora1. Indigenous Identities in Mesoamerica after the Spanish ConquestRebecca Horn2. Rethinking the Middle Ground: French Colonialism and Indigenous Identities in the Pays d’en HautMichael A. McDonnell3. Identity Articulated: British Settlers, Black Caribs, and the Politics of Indigeneity on St. Vincent, 1763–1797Brooke N. Newman4. Religion, Race, and the Formation of Pan-Indian Identities in the Brothertown Movement, 1700–1800Linford D. Fisher5. “Decoying Them Within”: Creek Gender Identities and the Subversion of CivilizationFelicity DonohoePart 2. Asserting Native Identities through Politics, Work, and Migration6. Mastering Language: Liberty, Slavery, and Native Resistance in the Early Nineteenth-Century SouthJames Taylor Carson7. Resistance and Removal: Yaqui and Navajo Identities in the Southwest BorderlandsClaudia B. Haake8. Progressivism and Native American Self-Expression in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturyJoy Porter9. Mixed-Descent Indian Identity and Assimilation PolicyKatherine Ellinghaus10. “All Go to the Hop Fields”: The Role of Migratory and Wage Labor in the Preservation of Indigenous Pacific Northwest CultureVera ParhamPart 3. Twentieth-Century Reflections on Indigenous and Pan-Indian Identities11. Tribal Institution Building in the Twentieth CenturyDuane Champagne12. Disease and the “Other”: The Role of Medical Imperialism in OceaniaKerri A. Inglis13. “Why Injun Artist Me”: Acee Blue Eagle’s Diasporic PerformativeBill Anthes14. Asserting a Global Indigenous Identity: Native Activism Before and After the Cold WarDaniel M. Cobb15. From Tribal to Indian: American Indian Identity in the Twentieth CenturyDonald FixicoContributorsIndex