Settler City Limits: Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887558437 ISBN 13: 9780887558436

Publisher: University of Manitoba Press, 2019

Synopsis

While cities like Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Saskatoon, Rapid City, Edmonton, Missoula, Regina, and Tulsa are places where Indigenous marginalization has been most acute, they have also long been sites of Indigenous placemaking and resistance to settler colonialism.

Although such cities have been denigrated as “ordinary” or banal in the broader urban literature, they are exceptional sites to study Indigenous resurgence. The urban centres of the continental plains have featured Indigenous housing and food co-operatives, social service agencies, and schools. The American Indian Movement initially developed in Minneapolis in 1968, and Idle No More emerged in Saskatoon in 2013.

The editors and authors of Settler City Limits , both Indigenous and settler, address urban struggles involving Anishinaabek, Cree, Creek, Dakota, Flathead, Lakota, and Métis peoples. Collectively, these studies showcase how Indigenous people in the city resist ongoing processes of colonial dispossession and create spaces for themselves and their families.

Working at intersections of Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, urban studies, geography, and sociology, this book examines how the historical and political conditions of settler colonialism have shaped urbandevelopment in the Canadian Prairies and American Plains. Settler City Limits frames cities as Indigenous spaces and places, both in terms of the historical geographies of the regions in which they are embedded, and with respect to ongoing struggles for land, life, and self-determination.

About this title

About the Author

Heather Dorries is an Assistant Professor in the Indigenous Policy and Administration Program at Carleton University.

Review

“Settler City Limits breaks ground, shattering the powerful authoritative structures of racism that have dichotomized rural and urban space, and Indigenous peoples’ relation to these as a central force sustaining and fortifying settler colonialism.” (Heather A. Howard-Bobiwash)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0887558437
• ISBN 13: 9780887558436
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Dorries Heather, Henry Robert, Hugill David, McCreary Tyler, Tomiak Julie