The arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted
indigenous lifeways, and the effects of colonialism shattered
Native communities. Forced migration and human trafficking created
a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smithers
and Brooke N. Newman have gathered the work of leading scholars,
including Bill Anthes, Duane Champagne, Daniel Cobb, Donald Fixico,
and Joy Porter, among others, in examining an expansive range of
Native peoples and the extent of their influences through
reaggregation. These diverse and wide-ranging essays uncover
indigenous understandings of self-identification, community, and
culture through the speeches, cultural products, intimate
relations, and political and legal practices of Native peoples.
Native Diasporas explores how indigenous peoples forged a
sense of identity and community amid the changes wrought by
European colonialism in the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands, and the
mainland Americas from the seventeenth through the twentieth
century. Broad in scope and groundbreaking in the topics it
explores, this volume presents fresh insights from scholars devoted
to understanding Native American identity in meaningful and
methodologically innovative ways.