A Veterans’ Talking Circle: Urban Indian Peoplehood and Re-Indigenizing Places

While the boundaries of Indigeneity as a category are generally contested in Indian country, urban spaces provide opportunities for affinity and multiple expressions of Indigenous identity to coexist and even thrive. In Albuquerque, like many major cities, inter-tribal Indian identity centered on gr...

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Auteur principal: Avalos, Natalie (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Taylor & Francis 2022
Dans: Material religion
Année: 2022, Volume: 18, Numéro: 1, Pages: 92-105
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Albuquerque, NM / Peuple indigène / Population urbaine / Développement de l'Identité / Sentiment communautaire / Groupe de discussion / Transnationalisation
RelBib Classification:AD Sociologie des religions
AF Géographie religieuse
AG Vie religieuse
BB Religions traditionnelles ou tribales
KBQ Amérique du Nord
Sujets non-standardisés:B Native American religious traditions
B transnational Indigeneity
B Indigenous sovereignty
B Inter-tribal identity
B urban Indians
B Decolonization
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Résumé:While the boundaries of Indigeneity as a category are generally contested in Indian country, urban spaces provide opportunities for affinity and multiple expressions of Indigenous identity to coexist and even thrive. In Albuquerque, like many major cities, inter-tribal Indian identity centered on grassroots political activity increasingly recognizes Indigeneity as transnational and hemispheric, meaning that Indigenous peoples migrating from other parts of the Americas or around the world contribute to its greater Indigenous diversity (Ramirez 2007). Urban Indians in Albuquerque are composed of multiple peoples from diverse national and tribal identities, however, their points of convergence in the city, such as in ceremonial, sovereignty, and stewardship contexts enables a transnational expression of peoplehood to emerge. Indigenous sovereignty has been theorized as an articulation of peoplehood, defined by scholars as the persistence of a people who share a sacred history, religion, language, and land (Holm, Pearson, and Chavis 2003). In this article, I explore the ways urban Indian peoplehood emerges from the re-Indigenizing praxis of material life, such as talking circles, ceremony, and pottery-making, reflecting the generative culture making Native studies scholars call resurgence (Simpson 2011) and that moves away from essentialist and static definitions of Native identity that rely on blood quantum (Smith 2015).
ISSN:1751-8342
Contient:Enthalten in: Material religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2021.2015927