WeNeedANewCounty
Enduring Division and Conquest in the Indigenous Southwest
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5949070 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Teresa Montoya (0000-0001-6238-4298) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 75-78 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Anthropology of North America (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2475-5389 • E-ISSN: 2475-5389 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/nad.12116 |
| OpenAlex | W2991415706 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
Pernicious threats to tribal sovereignty and Indigenous empowerment at local scales of governance have often evaded the scrutiny applied to other formations of the settler state. To illustrate this point, I draw on recent attempts to divide and redistrict county jurisdictions that overlap with the Navajo Nation. I argue that such efforts become a pretext to treat Navajo citizens as an economic liability and to exclude them from upwardly mobile settler polities in historically racialized ways. As a result, rural politics becomes a crucial site for understanding the contemporary struggles of the 573 federally recognized tribal nations in the United States. I conclude that considerations of rurality must be attentive to how histories of dispossession continue to surface in and permeate the present political moment
Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Indigenous Studies and Ecology
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |