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Native Studies Keywords (Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies)

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Feature ✨	Description 📝
Exploration of Concepts 📚	Native Studies Keywords explores selected concepts in Native studies and the words commonly used to describe them, words whose meanings have been insufficiently examined.
Key Concepts Covered 🔑	This edited volume focuses on the following eight concepts: sovereignty, land, indigeneity, nation, blood, tradition, colonialism, and knowledge.
Contextualization 🌍	The essays provide an historical, social, and political context for the concepts and indicate how they have been drawn upon by scholars of Native studies.
Critical Conversation 💬	Native Studies Keywords is a genealogical project that looks at the history of words that claim to have no history. It is the first book to examine the foundational concepts of Native American studies, offering multiple perspectives and opening a critical new conversation.
Multiple Meanings ⚖️	Consequently, the foundational terms within Native studies always have multiple and conflicting meanings.
Colonial Baggage 🎒	These terms carry the colonial baggage that has accrued from centuries of contested words.
Series Information 📘	Series Critical issues in indigenous studies.
Physical Details 📏	xi, 356 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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Native Studies Keywords is a genealogical project that looks at the history of words that claim to have no history. It is the first book to examine the foundational concepts of Native American studies, offering multiple perspectives and opening a critical new conversation.

Take sovereignty, for example. The word has served as the battle cry for social justice in Indian Country. But what is the meaning of sovereignty? Native peoples with diverse political beliefs all might say they support sovereignty—without understanding fully the meaning and implications packed in the word.

The field of Native studies is filled with many such words whose meanings are presumed, rather than articulated or debated.