Introduces upper-level undergraduate students to some of the richness and heterogeneity of Indigenous cultures. Written by top scholars in the field, the readings explore common themes and experiences of indigeneity that persist across geographic borders. The Indigenous Experience combines historical narratives with complex conceptual issues and strong pedagogical support.

Introduction; Indigenous Peoples; Trade, Slavery, and Colonialism; The Ecology of Ainu Autonomy and Dependence; Hawaii Under Non-Hawaiian Rule; Colonising Knowledges; Extract from A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present; Settling In: Epidemics and Conquest to the End of the First Century; Confronting Australian Genocide; "Killing the Indian in the Child": Four Centuries of Church-Run Schools; The Guarani: The Economics of Ethnocide; The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power; Paths Toward a Mohawk Nation: Narratives of Citizenship and Nationhood in Kahnawake; The Criminalisation of Indigenous People; The Indians Are Coming to an End: The Myth of Native Desolation; "We Must Farm to Enable Us to Live": The Plains Cree and Agriculture to 1900; Imagining Civilisation on the Frontiers of Aboriginality; Saami and Norwegians: Symbols of Peoplehood and Nationhood; The New Politics of Resistance; Politics within the Metis Association of Alberta; "Sovereignty" -- An Inappropriate Concept; Indigeneity at the Edge: Towards a Constructive Engagement.