Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America

Abstract

Foreword / Theodore Fontaine vii Introduction. Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America / Jeff Benvenuto, Andrew Woolford, and Alexander Laban Hinton 1 Part I. Intersections and Trajectories 1. Discipline, Territory, and the Colonial Mesh: Indigenous Boarding Schools in the United States and Canada / Andrew Woolford 29 2. Global Capital, Violence, and the Making of a Colonial Shatter Zone / Robbie Ethridge 49 3. Genocide in Canada: A Relational View / Christopher Powell and Julia Peristerakis 70 Part II. Erasure and Legibility 4. California and Oregon's Modoc Indians: How Indigenous Resistance Camouflages Genocide in Colonial Histories / Benjamin Madley 95 6. Memory, Erasure, and National Myth / Tricia E. Logan 149 7. Residential School Harm and Colonial Dispossession: What's the Connection? / Jeremy Patzer 166 Part III. Transformations 8. The Habit of Elimination: Indigenous Child Removal in Settler Colonial Nations in the Twentieth Century / Margaret D. Jacobs 189 9. Revisiting Choctaw Ethnocide and Ethnogenesis: The Creative Destruction of Colonial Genocide / Jeff Benvenuto 208 10. Political Genocide: Killing Nations through Legislation and Slow-Moving Poison / Kiera L. Ladner 226 11. Dispossession and Canadian Land Claims: Genocidal Implications of the Innu Nation Land Claim / Colin Samson 246 Part IV. (Re)Imaginings 12. Colonial Genocide and Historical Trauma in Native North America: Complicating Contemporary Attributions / Joseph P. Gone 273 13. Buffalo Genocide in Nineteenth-Century North America: Kill, Skin, and Sell / Tasha Hubbard 292 14. Genocide in the Indian Residential Schools: Canadian History through the Lens of the UN Genocide Convention / David B. MacDonald 306 Afterword. Colonial Genocide and Indigenous North America: A View from Critical Genocide Studies / Alexander Laban Hinton 325 Contributors 333 Index 339