This book explores the emergence of national identities among the Indigenous peoples of North America. It examines the problems Native communities have faced in asserting themselves as nations and broadens our understanding of Native American nationalism, including a variety of political, educational, sociological, cultural and literary viewpoints.

Martina Neuburger is Professor of Social and Political Geography at the University of Hamburg, where she researches socio-political processes in rural and peasant societies in Latin America. Her research into vulnerability, poverty and marginalization concentrates on peripheral regions with fragile ecosystems, such as Brazilian and Bolivian Amazonia and the Peruvian Andes. H. Peter Dörrenbächer is Professor of Human Geography at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, where he studies the development and socio-economic status of border regions and the institutionalization of transboundary regions in western Europe, with a particular focus on French-German border regions. He also has research interests in the institutionalization of Indigenous regions in northern Quebec.

Contents: Martina Neuburger/H. Peter Dörrenbächer: Introduction: Nationalisms and Identities among Indigenous Peoples – John George Hansen: Decolonizing Indigenous Histories and Justice – Linda Sue Warner/Keith Grint: War and Peace: Issues of Leadership in American Indian Communities – Sandra Busatta: The Akwesasne Mohawk at the Margin of the State – Miranda C. Laber: ‘Planting the Seeds of Change’: Indigenous Education, Nation-Building and Democracy in the United States – Herman Michell: Transcending the Winter Time: The Legacy of Residential Schools and the Role of Indigenous Places of Higher Learning in an Era of Reconciliation – Punyashree Panda: To Be or Not To Be Native: Residential School, Official Status and Métis Women in Maria Campbell’s and Beatrice Culleton’s – Kevin A. Johnson/Joseph W. Anderson: The Native American Hip-Hop Nation: A Nationalist Movement for Sovereignty – Brian de Ruiter: The Empire Films Back: Constructing Identity and Resistance Through the Selective Films of Chris Eyre – Monika Ludescher: The Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America from International and Comparative Perspectives – Christina Goschenhofer/Katrin Singer: Mexican Indigeneities in Motion, Mexican Identities in Negotiation – Anne C. Uhlig: The Notion of the Nation Compared: Deafhood and Indianness.