Interdisciplinary study that grapples with the racial and ethnic politics of knowledge production and activism in Native communities in the Americas.

About the Series vii Introduction. Decolonizing Knowledge, Language, and Narrative / Florencia E. Mallon 1 Part One. Land, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination 21 Hawaiian Nationhood, Self-Determination, and International Law / J. Kehaulani Kauanui 27 Issues of Land and Sovereignty: The Uneasy Relationship between Chile and Rapa Nui / Riet Delsing 54 Part Two. Indigenous Writing and Experiences with Collaboration 79 Quechua Knowledge, Orality, and Writings: The Newspaper Conosur Nawpagamn / Fernando Garcés V. 85 Collaboration and Historical Writing: Challenges for the Indigenous-Academic Dialogue / Joanne Rappaport and Abelardo Ramos Pacho 122 The Taller Tzotzil of Chiapas, Mexico: A Native Language Publishing Project, 1985–2002 / Jan Rus and Diane L. Rus 144 Part Three. Generations of Indigenous Activism and Internal Debates 175 Dangerous Decolonizing: Indians and Blacks and the Legacy of Jim Crow / Brian Klopotek 179 Nationalist Contradictions: Pan-Mayanism, Representations of the Past, and the Reproduction of Inequalities of Guatemala / Edgar Esquit 196 Conclusion 219 References 221 Contributors 243 Index 247