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Erich Steinman has compiled a record of Native American resistance processes and responses that he says are not well studied by American sociology. [90] In New Zealand and Ecuador, Indigenous peoples have formed political parties, Te Pāti Māori and Pachakutik respectively. Bolivia has had an Indigenous president, Evo Morales. [8]
Indigenous resurgence is a transformative movement of resistance and decolonization. The practice of Indigenous resurgence is a form of regenerative nation-building and reconnection with all their relations. It constitutes kin-centric relationships among BIPOC peoples and with the natural world.
Gerald Vizenor coined the term survivance to characterize the struggle of colonized indigenous communities. [6] Combining the words "survival" and "resistance", he evokes "the duality of how Native Americans have survived brutal genocides and continue to resist white supremacist laws and culture that are designed to disenfranchise and assimilate".
Most American Indians are comfortable with Indian, American Indian, and Native American, and the terms are often used interchangeably. [8] They have also been known as Aboriginal Americans, Amerindians, Amerinds, Colored, [9] [10] First Americans, Native Indians, Indigenous, Original Americans, Red Indians, Redskins or Red Men.
[11] With these practices, Native American populations were able to rebound after disease in the absence of colonial-settler violence. In the 1960s and 1970s, the grassroots Red Power Movement and American Indian Movement (AIM) sought to address discrimination and violence against Native Americans and to promote self-determination.
Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization is a book by Ward Churchill.It is a collection of essays on the efforts of Native Americans in the United States and in Canada to maintain their land tenure claims against government and corporate infringement.
The American Continental forces of the American Revolutionary War were essentially a resistance movement against the British Empire. Francis Marion was an American Revolutionary War partisan who led a partisan guerrilla movement against Great Britain.
Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America is a 2003 book by Cherokee sociologist Eva Marie Garroutte. [1] It was published in University of California Press . [ 1 ] It explores the complexities of Native American identity through legal, biological, and cultural lenses, revealing the challenges Indigenous people face in proving ...