Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii Introduction / Audra Simpson and Andrea Smith 1 1. There Is a River in Me: Theory from Life / Dian Million 31 2. The Ancestors We Get to Choose: White Influences I Won't Deny / Teresia Teaiwa 43 3. From Wards of the State to Subjects of Recognition? Marx, Indigenous Peoples, and the Politics of Dispossession in Denendeh / Glen Coulthard 56 4. Contract and Usurpation: Enfranchisement and Racial Governance in Settler-Colonial Contexts / Robert Nichols 99 5. "In This Separation": The Noncorrespondence of Joseph Johnson / Christopher Bracken 122 6. Making Peoples into Populations: The Racial Limits of Tribal Sovereignty / Mark Rifkin 149 7. Indigenous Transnationalism and the AIDS Pandemic: Challenging Settler Colonialism within Global Health Governance / Scott Lauria Morgensen 188 8. Native Studies at the Horizon of Death: Theorizing Ethnographic Entrapment and Settler Self-Reflexivity / Andrea Smith 207 9. Disrupting a Settler-Colonial Grammar of Place: The Visual Memoir of Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie / Mishuana R. Goeman 235 10. The Devil in the Details: Controverting an American Indian Conversion Narrative / Vera B. Palmer 266 Bibliography 297 Contributors 321 Index 323

About the Author

Andrea Smith is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Native Americans and the Christian Right, published by Duke University Press, and Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide.

Audra Simpson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life across the Borders of Settler States, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

"Theorizing Native Studies is a superb collection, an astutely conceived and targeted intervention in Native studies. The introduction is a gem and the essays cohere remarkably well around the core issue it raises: how to move beyond the unproductive opposition between European theory and Native practice, and to do so in ways that reflect and reproduce the particularities of Native epistemologies." - Patrick Wolfe, author of Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology "With Theorizing Native Studies, Audra Simpson and Andrea Smith release Native studies from the old conventional dichotomies that organize prevailing conceptions of knowledge, such as theory/practice and subject/object. This collection gives us a taste of the disruptive force of a theory that begins and stays with the demand from the dismantling of State-Capital and everything that stems from it. A necessary weapon for a critical arsenal that faces the challenge of remaining relevant within and against the neoliberal university." - Denise Ferreira da Silva, author of Toward a Global Idea of Race