While cities like Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Saskatoon, Rapid City,
Edmonton, Missoula, Regina, and Tulsa are places where Indigenous
marginalization has been most acute, they have also long been sites
of Indigenous placemaking and resistance to settler colonialism.
Settler City Limits addresses urban struggles involving
Anishinabek, Cree, Creek, Dakota, Flathead, Lakota, and Métis
peoples. Collectively, these studies showcase how Indigenous people
in the city resist ongoing processes of colonial dispossession and
create spaces for themselves and their families. Working at
intersections of Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, urban
studies, geography, and sociology, this book examines how the
historical and political conditions of settler colonialism have
shaped urban development in the Canadian Prairies and American Great
Plains. Settler City Limits frames cities as Indigenous spaces
and places, both in terms of the historical geographies of the
regions in which they are embedded and with respect to ongoing
struggles for land, life, and self-determination.