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Settler city limits : Indigenous resurgence and colonial violence in the urban Prairie West by Heather Dorries; Robert Henry; David Hugill; Tyler McCreary; Julie Tomiak; ProQuest (Firm) is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>While cities like Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Saskatoon, Rapid City, Edmonton, Missoula, Regina, and Tulsa are places where Indigenous marginalization has been most acute, they have also long been sites of Indigenous placemaking and resistance to settler colonialism.Although such cities have been denigrated as "ordinary" or banal in the broader urban literature, they are exceptional sites to study Indigenous resurgence. T?he urban centres of the continental plains have featured Indigenous housing and food co-operatives, social service agencies, and schools. The American Indian Movement initially developed in Minneapolis in 1968, and Idle No More emerged in Saskatoon in 2013.The editors and authors of Settler City Limits, both Indigenous and settler, address urban struggles involving Anishinaabek, Cree, Creek, Dakota, Flathead, Lakota, and Métis peoples. Collectively, these studies showcase how Indigenous people in the city resist ongoing processes of colonial dispossession and create spaces for themselves and their families.Working at intersections of Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, urban studies, geography, and sociology, this book examines how the historical and polit

Author

Heather Dorries; Robert Henry; David Hugill; Tyler McCreary; Julie Tomiak; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

Winnipeg, Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press ; Michigan State University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780887555879

Subjects

History, Humanities