Miléna Santoro is an associate professor of French and Francophone studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of Mothers of Invention: Feminist Authors and Experimental Fiction in France and Quebec. Erick D. Langer is a professor of history at Georgetown University.¿He is the author of Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree: Franciscan Missions on the Chiriguano Frontier in the Heart of South America, 1830–1949 and coeditor of The New Latin American Mission History (Nebraska, 1995).
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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. First Contacts, First Nations
1. The Early Colonial Origins of Indigeneity in and around the Basin of Mexico
Susan Kellogg
2. Existing Ancestralities and the Failure of Colonial Regimes
Susan Elizabeth Ramírez
3. “We Do the Same Thing among Ourselves”: Becoming Indigenous in Atlantic Canada
David T. McNab
Part 2. Indigenous Survival and Selfhood in the Long Nineteenth Century
4. Everything Must Change so that Everything Can Stay the Same: Miscegenation, Racialization, and Culture in Modern Mesoamerica
Luis Fernando Granados
5. From Prosperity to Poverty: Andeans in the Nineteenth Century
Erick D. Langer
6. Nation Making / Nation Breaking: “Effective Control” of Aboriginal Lands and Peoples by Settlers in Transition
Karl S. Hele
Part 3. Asserting Indigeneity in the Contemporary Era
7. Asserting Indigeneity in Contemporary Mexico and Central America: Autonomy, Rights, and Confronting Nation-States
Lynn Stephen
8. Against Coloniality: Andrés Jach’aqullu’s Indigenous Movement in the Era of the Bolivian National Revolution of 1952
Waskar T. Ari-Chachaki
9. Reel Visions: Snapshots from a Half Century of First Nations Cinema
Miléna Santoro
Postface. Indigenous Experience and Legacies
10. Travels of a Métis through Spirit Memory, around Turtle Island, and Beyond
David T. McNab
Contributors
Index

Miléna Santoro is an associate professor of French and Francophone studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of Mothers of Invention: Feminist Authors and Experimental Fiction in France and Quebec. Erick D. Langer is a professor of history at Georgetown University. He is the author of Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree: Franciscan Missions on the Chiriguano Frontier in the Heart of South America, 1830–1949 and coeditor of The New Latin American Mission History (Nebraska, 1995).