Indigenous Borderlands: Native Agency, Resilience, and Power in the Americas

by Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez Narrated by Kaipo Schwab

Overview

Pervasive myths of European domination and indigenous submission in the Americas receive an overdue corrective in this far-reaching revisionary work. Within the indigenous borderlands of the Americas, as this volume shows, Native peoples exercised considerable power, often retaining control of the land, and remaining paramount agents of historical transformation after the European incursion. Conversely, European conquest and colonialism were typically slow and incomplete, as the newcomers struggled to assert their authority.



Indigenous Borderlands covers a wide chronological and geographical span, from the sixteenth-century U.S. South to twentieth-century Bolivia, and gathers leading scholars from the United States and Latin America. Drawing on previously untapped or underutilized primary sources, the original essays in this volume document the resilience and relative success of indigenous communities commonly and wrongly thought to have been subordinated by colonial forces, or even vanished, as well as the persistence of indigenous borderlands within territories claimed by people of European descent.



Hemispheric in its scope, unique in its approach, this work significantly recasts our understanding of the important roles played by Native agents in constructing indigenous borderlands in the era of European imperialism.

Editorial Reviews

OCTOBER 2023 - AudioFile

Narrator Kaipo Schwab brings a bright, naturalistic delivery to this collection of decidedly academic essays that re-examine the first and continued contact between Native peoples and the Europeans who arrived to "conquer" the Americas. The eye-opening contention is that after 1492, one group did not simply replace the other; instead Indigenous peoples used politics, labor negotiations, and the courts to fight to protect their families and land rights--and continue to do so to the present day. Schwab is wonderful at finding beauty and majesty in exotic-sounding names, such as the Chichimeca tribes of north-central Mexico, the Guaycurua of Gran Chaco, and the towns of Temozón and Valladolid, Yucatán. Of course, there's nothing exotic here, just the names of numerous American cultures who were and are. B.P. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

From the Publisher

This collection of essays by eminent scholars gives us an up-to-the-minute state of the field of Native American studies from a breathtaking continental perspective.”—Andrés Reséndez, author of Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery
 

“Hemispheric in its geographic scope, broad in its chronology, and interdisciplinary in its methods, this landmark work immerses readers in diverse indigenous societies, economies, and borderlands from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. The authors use new sources and approaches to highlight the active role of indigenous peoples living within and beyond the purview of empires and nations across the Western Hemisphere.”—Yanna Yannakakis, author of Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico
 

“Although intended for an academic audience, this provocative volume provides general readers, as well, with a welcome introduction to ongoing scholarship, illuminating the active role of indigenous actors in the colonial history of the Americas.”—The Roundup, Western Writers of America
 

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160520131
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	05/23/2023
Edition description:	Unabridged

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