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Mapping Indigenous Presence: North Scandinavian and North American Perspectives
Contributor(s): Shanley, Kathryn W. (Editor), Evjen, Bjørg (Editor), Anaya, S. James (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0816531528     ISBN-13: 9780816531523
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
OUR PRICE:   $33.25  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: May 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Indigenous Studies
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
Dewey: 305.894
LCCN: 2014040111
Series: Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9" (0.95 lbs) 312 pages
 
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Despite centuries of colonization, many Indigenous peoples' cultures remain distinct in their ancestral territories, even in today's globalized world. Yet they exist often within countries that hardly recognize their existence. Struggles for political recognition and cultural respect have occurred historically and continue to challenge Native American nations in Montana and S mi people of northern Scandinavia in their efforts to remain and thrive as who they are as Indigenous peoples. In some ways the Indigenous struggles on the two continents have been different, but in many other ways, they are similar.

Mapping Indigenous Presence presents a set of comparative Indigenous studies essays with contemporary perspectives, attesting to the importance of the roles Indigenous people have played as overseers of their own lands and resources, as creators of their own cultural richness, and as political entities capable of governing themselves. This interdisciplinary collection explores the Indigenous experience of S mi peoples of Norway and Native Americans of Montana in their respective contexts--yet they are in many ways distinctly different within the body politic of their respective countries. Although they share similarities as Indigenous peoples within nation-states and inhabit somewhat similar geographies, their cultures and histories differ significantly.

S mi people speak several languages, while Indigenous Montana is made up of twelve different tribes with at least ten distinctly different languages; both peoples struggle to keep their Indigenous languages vital. The political relationship between S mi people and the mainstream Norwegian government and culture has historically been less contentious that that of the Indigenous peoples of Montana with the United States and with the state of Montana, yet the S mi and the Natives of Montana have struggled against both the ideology and the subsequent assimilation policy of the savagery-versus-civilization model. The authors attempt to increase understanding of how these two sets of Indigenous peoples share important ontological roots and postcolonial legacies, and how research may be used for their own self-determination and future directions.