Settler City Limits

Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West

By: David Hugill (Editor), Tyler McCreary (Editor), Robert Henry (Editor), Julie Tomiak (Editor), Heather Dorries (Editor)

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Hardcover | 30 October 2019

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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.

Although such cities have been denigrated as "ordinary" or banal in the broader urban literature, they are exceptional sites to study Indigenous resurgence. The urban centres of the continental plains have featured Indigenous housing and food co-operatives, social service agencies, and schools. The American Indian Movement initially developed in Minneapolis in 1968, and Idle No More emerged in Saskatoon in 2013.

The editors and authors of Settler City Limits, both Indigenous and settler, address urban struggles involving Anishinaabek, Cree, Creek, Dakota, Flathead, Lakota, and M tis 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 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.

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"Settler City Limits is a useful collection that speaks across disciplines that might engage more with Indigenous studies. Its focus on the 'urban prairie west' is primarily centered on Canadian cities, particularly Winnipeg, and yet through theorizations of settler space making, it maintains a wide relevance to ongoing international conversations on Indigenous urbanism. Though the majority of this collection could serve well as stand-alone pieces, the strength of this volume is considering its wholeness, which speaks across disciplines, spaces, and histories."

--Sasha Maria Suarez, University of Madison-Wisconsin "American Indian Culture and Research Journal"

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