Red Nation Rising

From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation

Author: Nick Estes
Secondary Author: Melanie Yazzie
ISBN: 9781629638317

Red Nation Rising is the first book ever to investigate and explain the violent dynamics of bordertowns. Bordertowns are white-dominated towns and cities that operate according to the same political and spatial logics as all other American towns and cities. The difference is that these settlements get their name from their location at the borders of current-day reservation boundaries, which separates the territory of sovereign Native nations from lands claimed by the United States. Bordertowns came into existence when the first US military forts and trading posts were strategically placed along expanding imperial frontiers to extinguish indigenous resistance and incorporate captured indigenous territories into the burgeoning nation-state. To this day, the US settler state continues to wage violence on Native life and land in these spaces out of desperation to eliminate the threat of Native presence and complete its vision of national consolidation “from sea to shining sea.” This ex

Publisher: PM Press
Publish Date: 2021-07-06

Subjects: Social Science / Indigenous Studies, Political Science / Political Process / Political Advocacy, Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Native American)