Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders

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\u201cA lesson in how to practice recognizing the fundamental truth that every inch of the Americas is Indigenous territory\u201d -Robert Warrior, from the Foreword Many people learn about Indigenous politics only through the most controversial and confrontational news: the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe\u2019s efforts to block the Dakota Access Pipelin

J. Kehaulani Kauanui is professor of American studies and anthropology, director of the Center for the Americas, and chair of the American studies department at Wesleyan University. She is author of Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity and the forthcoming Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism. From 2007 to 2013, she was producer and host of the public affairs radio show Indigenous Politics from WESU in Middletown, Connecticut, where she currently coproduces a program on anarchist politics, Anarchy on Air, with a collective of students. Robert Warrior (Osage), is Hall Distinguished Professor of American literature and culture at the University of Kansas.

"A highly recommended work offering diverse perspectives on issues of great import to peoples around the world. Regardless of political perspective, readers will find much to mull over here."-Library Journal "As a polyvocal chronicle, critique, and catalyst at the intersections between global and local Indigenous politics, Kanaka Maoli scholar J. Kehaulani Kauanui's collection is a reinvigorating contribution that limns the ongoing importance of the topics discussed within. As such I want to make clear that Speaking of Indigenous Politics is vital." -Transmotion