"The arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indigenous lifeways, and the effects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human trafficking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman have gathered the work of leading scholars, including Bill Anthes, Duane Champagne, Daniel Cobb, Donald Fixico, and Joy Porter, among others, in examining an expansive range of Native peoples and the extent of their influences through reaggregation. These diverse and wide-ranging essays uncover indigenous understandings of self-identification, community, and culture through the speeches, cultural products, intimate relations, and political and legal practices of Native peoples. Native Diasporas explores how indigenous peoples forged a sense of identity and community amid the changes wrought by European colonialism in the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands, and the mainland Americas from the seventeenth through the twentieth century. Broad in scope and groundbreaking in the topics it explores, this volume presents fresh insights from scholars devoted to understanding Native American identity in meaningful and methodologically innovative ways"--

List of IllustrationsPrefaceBrooke N. Newman and Gregory D. SmithersIntroduction: “What Is an Indian?”—The Enduring Question of American Indian IdentityGregory D. SmithersPart 1. Adapting Indigenous Identities for the Colonial Diaspora1. Indigenous Identities in Mesoamerica after the Spanish ConquestRebecca Horn2. Rethinking the Middle Ground: French Colonialism and Indigenous Identities in the Pays d’en HautMichael A. McDonnell3. Identity Articulated: British Settlers, Black Caribs, and the Politics of Indigeneity on St. Vincent, 1763–1797Brooke N. Newman4. Religion, Race, and the Formation of Pan-Indian Identities in the Brothertown Movement, 1700–1800Linford D. Fisher5. “Decoying Them Within”: Creek Gender Identities and the Subversion of CivilizationFelicity DonohoePart 2. Asserting Native Identities through Politics, Work, and Migration6. Mastering Language: Liberty, Slavery, and Native Resistance in the Early Nineteenth-Century SouthJames Taylor Carson7. Resistance and Removal: Yaqui and Navajo Identities in the Southwest BorderlandsClaudia B. Haake8. Progressivism and Native American Self-Expression in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturyJoy Porter9. Mixed-Descent Indian Identity and Assimilation PolicyKatherine Ellinghaus10. “All Go to the Hop Fields”: The Role of Migratory and Wage Labor in the Preservation of Indigenous Pacific Northwest CultureVera ParhamPart 3. Twentieth-Century Reflections on Indigenous and Pan-Indian Identities11. Tribal Institution Building in the Twentieth CenturyDuane Champagne12. Disease and the “Other”: The Role of Medical Imperialism in OceaniaKerri A. Inglis13. “Why Injun Artist Me”: Acee Blue Eagle’s Diasporic PerformativeBill Anthes14. Asserting a Global Indigenous Identity: Native Activism Before and After the Cold WarDaniel M. Cobb15. From Tribal to Indian: American Indian Identity in the Twentieth CenturyDonald FixicoContributorsIndex