Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination

Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-DeterminationWhat does it mean to say that Native peoples exist in the present? In Beyond Settler Time Mark Rifkin investigates the dangers of seeking to include Indigenous peoples within settler temporal frameworks. Claims that Native peoples should be recognized as coeval with Euro Americans, Rifkin argues, implicitly treat dominant non native ideologies and institutions as the basis for defining time itself. How, though, can Native peoples be understood as

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and how the potato plant fed millions of Europe's poor for centuries and then caused the deaths of millions

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Along with An English-Dakota Dictionary

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

prophecies

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The United States has enacted many treaties with tribes nationwide

an Elder shares his experience of packing up to go out to collect blueberries

the astonishing dunefields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy