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Indigenous Communities and Settler Colonialism

Land Holding, Loss and Survival in an Interconnected World

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Editors:
  1. Zoë Laidlaw

    1. Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

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  2. Alan Lester

    1. University of Sussex, UK

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Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)

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The new world created through Anglophone emigration in the 19th century has been much studied. But there have been few accounts of what this meant for the Indigenous populations. This book shows that Indigenous communities tenaciously held land in the midst of dispossession, whilst becoming interconnected through their struggles to do so.

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Indigenous Sites and Mobilities: Connected Struggles in the Long Nineteenth Century

    • Alan Lester, Zoë Laidlaw
    Pages 1-23

  3. Re-imagining Settler Sovereignty: The Call to Law at the Coranderrk Aboriginal Reserve, Victoria 1881 (and Beyond)

    • Julie Evans, Giordano Nanni
    Pages 24-44

  4. Indigenous Land Loss, Justice and Race: Ann Bon and the Contradictions of Settler Humanitarianism

    • Joanna Cruickshank, Patricia Grimshaw
    Pages 45-61

  5. ‘On My Ground’: Indigenous Farmers at New Norcia 1860s–1900s

    • Tiffany Shellam
    Pages 62-85

  6. The Possession and Dispossession of the Kat River Settlement

    • Robert Ross
    Pages 86-101

  7. Discourses of Land Use, Land Access and Land Rights at Farmerfield and Loeriesfontein in Nineteenth-century South Africa

    • Fiona Vernal
    Pages 102-137

  8. Living on the Rivers’ Edge at the Taieri Native Reserve

    • Angela Wanhalla
    Pages 138-157

  9. Designing Dispossession: The Select Committee on the Hudson’s Bay Company, Fur-trade Governance, Indigenous Peoples and Settler Possibility

    • Adele Perry
    Pages 158-172

  10. They Would Not Give Up One Inch of It’: The Rise and Demise of St Peter’s Reserve, Manitoba

    • Sarah Carter
    Pages 173-193

  11. Site of Dispossession, Site of Persistence: The Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) at the Grand River Territory in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    • Cecilia Morgan
    Pages 194-213

  12. Potawatomi Allotment in Kansas

    • Kelli Mosteller
    Pages 214-232

  13. Law, Identity and Dispossession — the Half-Caste Act of 1886 and Contemporary Legal Definitions of Indigeneity in Australia

    • Mark McMillan, Cosima McRae
    Pages 233-244

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 245-270
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'Though the restless mobility at the heart of 'settler' colonialism is well known, its indigenous histories have been comparatively invisible in the British empire context. As this wide-ranging collections shows, indigenous perseverance happened on the move. Taken together, the essays remind us that dispossession required flexible responses at multiple scales and speeds. They urge us to think of the polycentric, networked histories made visible here not as simply as a static archive, but as the dynamic grounds for thinking new kinds of indigenous futures as well.' - Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois, USA

Editors and Affiliations

  • Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

    Zoë Laidlaw

  • University of Sussex, UK

    Alan Lester

About the editors

Sarah Carter, University of Alberta, Canada Joanna Cruickshank, Deakin University, Australia Julie Evans, University of Melbourne, Australia Patricia Grimshaw, University of Melbourne, Australia Mark McMillan, Melbourne Law School, Australia Cosima McRae, Melbourne Law School, Australia Cecilia Morgan, University of Toronto, Canada Kelli Mosteller, Citizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center, USA Giordano Nanni, University of Melbourne, Australia Adele Perry, University of Manitoba, Canada Robert Ross, Leiden University, the Netherlands Tiffany Shellam, Deakin University, Australia Fiona Vernal, University of Connecticut, USA Angela Wanhalla, University of Otago, New Zealand

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