The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.-Indigenous Relations / Edition 3

by Kevin Bruyneel

Overview

The imposition of modern American colonial rule has defined U.S.-indigenous relations since the time of the American Civil War. In resistance, Kevin Bruyneel asserts, indigenous political actors work across American spatial and temporal boundaries, demanding rights and resources from the government while also challenging the imposition of colonial rule over their lives. This resistance engenders what he calls a “third space of sovereignty,” which resides neither inside nor outside the U.S. political system but rather exists on its boundaries, exposing both the practices and limitations of American colonial rule. 

The Third Space of Sovereignty offers fresh insights on such topics as the crucial importance of the formal end of treaty-making in 1871, indigenous responses to the prospect of U.S. citizenship in the 1920s, native politics during the tumultuous civil rights era of the 1960s, the question of indigenousness in the special election of California’s governor in 2003, and the current issues surrounding gaming and casinos.

In this engaging and provocative work, Bruyneel shows how native political actors have effectively contested the narrow limits that the United States has imposed on indigenous people’s ability to define their identity and to develop economically and politically on their own terms.

Kevin Bruyneel is assistant professor of politics at Babson College.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780816649884
Publisher:	University of Minnesota Press
Publication date:	10/05/2007
Series:	Indigenous Americas
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	702,589
Product dimensions:	5.88(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

A Note on Terminology     ix
Introduction: Politics on the Boundaries     xi
The U.S.-Indigenous Relationship: A Struggle over Colonial Rule     1
Resisting American Domestication: The U.S. Civil War and the Cherokee Struggle to Be "Still, a Nation"     27
1871 and the Turn to Postcolonial Time in U.S.-Indigenous Relations     65
Indigenous Politics and the "Gift" of U.S. Citizenship in the Early Twentieth Century     97
Between Civil Rights and Decolonization: The Claim for Postcolonial Nationhood     123
Indigenous Sovereignty versus Colonial Time at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century     171
Conclusion: The Third Space of Sovereignty     217
Acknowledgments     231
Notes     235
Bibliography     271
Index     291