Title: The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.-Indigenous Relations. By Kevin Bruyneel. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. xxiv, 313 pp. Cloth, $67.50, ISBN 978-0-8166-4987-7. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8166-4988-4.)
Abstract: Indigenous peoples have long combated culturally static models that non-Natives have used to define them: if you are not behaving like a nineteenth-century Indian, then you are not really “Indian.” Conversely, historians and anthropologists have joined Indigenous peoples in championing the historical dynamism of their cultures; heritage is vital, but owning a cell phone does not make you any less “Indian.” The political theorist Kevin Bruyneel expands on those ideas by focusing on U.S. colonial efforts to use static spatial and temporal borders in demarcating Native America's political and cultural boundaries. While colonial society rigidly delineates Indian identity, sovereignty, and territory, placing them either inside or outside the American mainstream, indigenous people continually defy those boundaries by establishing, on their own terms, a place for themselves that is simultaneously within and without the colonial system. For Bruyneel it is this third space, the blurry, overlapping areas that straddle contested boundaries, where American colonialism and Indigenous resistance are defined.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
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