Transnational Indians in the North American West

This Collection Of Eleven Original Essays Goes Beyond Traditional, Border-driven Studies To Place The Histories Of Native Americans, Indigenous Peoples, And First Nation Peoples In A Larger Context Than Merely That Of The Dominant Nation. As Transnational Indians In The North American West Shows, Transnationalism Can Be Expressed In Various Ways. To Some It Can Be Based On Dependency, So That The History Of The Indigenous People Of The American Southwest Can Only Be Understood In The Larger Context Of Mexico And Central America. Others Focus On The Importance Of Movement Between Indian And Non-indian Worlds As Indians Left Their (reserved) Lands To Work, Hunt, Fish, Gather, Pursue Legal Cases, Or Seek Out Education, To Name But A Few Examples. Conversely, Even Natives Who Remained On Reserved Lands Were Nonetheless Transnational Inasmuch As The Reserves Did Not Fully Belong To Them But Were Administered By A Nation-state. Boundaries That Scholars Once Viewed As Impermeable, It Turns Out, Can Be Quite Porous. This Book Stands To Be An Important Contribution To The Scholarship That Is Increasingly Breaking Free Of Old Boundaries. Introduction: Transnational Indians Of The North American West / Andrae Marak And Gary Van Valen -- The Indigenous Southwest As Mesoamerica's Northern Frontier: Mexico, Harmony, And The Quincunx / W. Dirk Raat -- Forced Transnationalism Among Indigenous People Across Borderlands: Mexico And The United States / Maria Cristina Manzano-munguia -- In Search Of Juan Antonio Ignacio Baca, A Pueblo Participant In The Shifting Politics Of Nineteenth-century New Mexico / Gary Van Valen -- Indios Barbaros And The Making Of Mexican Colonization Policy After Independence: From Conquest To Colonization / Jose Angel Hernandez -- Property Rights In The Transition Of Canadian Prairie Indians Onto Reserves / Tony Ward -- Two Tales Of The Conquest Of Seriland: Pascual Encinas, Roberto Thomson, The White Chief And The Seri Indians / Andrae Marak -- The Stubborn Disposition Of These Indians: Survival And Subsistence On The Upper Columbia River, 1820-1880 / Ian Stacy -- Shifting Borders: Indian Territory In Crisis / Clarissa W. Confer -- Struggles For Place And Space: Kickapoo Traces From The Midwest To Mexico / Kristin Hoganson -- A Shared Past: Washoe Indians And The Dawes Act Of 1887 / Matthew Stephen Makley -- Indigenous Resistance And Racist Schooling On The Borders Of Empires: Coast Salish Cultural Survival / Michael Marker -- Indigenous Transnationalism And Alberta First Nations Gaming: Political Compromise Or Negotiated Economic Advantage? / Yale D. Belanger. Edited By Clarissa Confer, Andrae Marak, And Laura Tuennerman ; Foreword By Sterling Evans. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.