Settler City Limits: Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West

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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. T​he 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 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 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. Cover Contents Introduction: Settler City Limits Part One: Life and Death Chapter One: "Welcome to Winnipeg": Making Settler Colonial Urban Space in "Canada's Most Racist City" Chapter Two: Anti-Indian Common Sense: Border Town Violence and Resistance in Mni Luzahan Chapter Three: Comparative Settler Colonial Urbanisms: Racism and the Making of Inner-City Winnipeg and Minneapolis, 1940–1975 Part Two: Land and Politics Chapter Four: Contested Entitlement: The Kapyong Barracks, Treaty Rights, and Settler Colonialism in Winnipeg Chapter Five: Experiments in Regional Settler Colonization: Pursuing Justice and Producing Scale through the Montana Study Chapter Six: Urban Métis Communities: The Politics of Recognition, Reflexivity, and Relationality Part Three: Policing and Social Control Chapter Seven: Policing Racialized Spaces Chapter Eight: Care-to-Prison Pipeline: Indigenous Children in Twenty-First-Century Settler Colonial Economies Chapter Nine: "I Claim in the Name Of. . ." Indigenous Street Gangs and Politics of Recognition in Prairie Cities Part Four: Contestation, Resistance, Solidarity Chapter Ten: Talisi through the Lens: Locating Native Tulsa in the Films of Sterlin Harjo Chapter Eleven: Little Partitions on the Prairies: Muslim Identity and Settler Colonialism in Saskatchewan Chapter Twelve: Decolonizing Prairie Public Art: The Further Adventures of the Ness Namew Bibliography Contributors Index