An examination of anticolonial thought and practice across key
Indigenous thinkers.
Accounts
of decolonization routinely neglect Indigenous societies, yet Native
communities have made unique contributions to anticolonial thought
and activism. Remapping Sovereignty examines how twentieth-century
Indigenous activists in North America debated questions of
decolonization and self-determination, developing distinctive
conceptual approaches that both resonate with and reformulate key
strands in other civil rights and global decolonization movements. In
contrast to decolonization projects that envisioned liberation
through state sovereignty, Indigenous theorists emphasized the
self-determination of peoples against sovereign state supremacy and
articulated a visionary politics of decolonization as earthmaking.
Temin traces the interplay between anticolonial thought and practice
across key thinkers, interweaving history and textual analysis. He
shows how these insights broaden the political and intellectual
horizons open to us today.
