Histories in Common: Native American Literatures, Extra Archives, and the Indigenous Transpacific

Since its founding, the United States has colonized more than five hundred Indigenous nations in North America and dozens more in the Pacific and the Caribbean. Alyssa A. Hunziker considers how American imperialism in the Pacific—typically thought of as separate from the colonization of North America—is deeply intertwined with US settler colonialism. By examining novels, poems, and archival records, Hunziker analyzes literary convergences between global Indigenous communities, and uses an I...