Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America

Foreword / Theodore Fontaine vii

Introduction. Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America / Jeff Benvenuto, Andrew Woolford, and Alexander Laban Hinton 1

Part I. Intersections and Trajectories 

1. Discipline, Territory, and the Colonial Mesh: Indigenous Boarding Schools in the United States and Canada / Andrew Woolford 29

2. Global Capital, Violence, and the Making of a Colonial Shatter Zone / Robbie Ethridge 49

3. Genocide in Canada: A Relational View / Christopher Powell and Julia Peristerakis 70

Part II. Erasure and Legibility 

4. California and Oregon's Modoc Indians: How Indigenous Resistance Camouflages Genocide in Colonial Histories / Benjamin Madley 95

6. Memory, Erasure, and National Myth / Tricia E. Logan 149

7. Residential School Harm and Colonial Dispossession: What's the Connection? / Jeremy Patzer 166

Part III. Transformations 

8. The Habit of Elimination: Indigenous Child Removal in Settler Colonial Nations in the Twentieth Century / Margaret D. Jacobs 189

9. Revisiting Choctaw Ethnocide and Ethnogenesis: The Creative Destruction of Colonial Genocide / Jeff Benvenuto 208

10. Political Genocide: Killing Nations through Legislation and Slow-Moving Poison / Kiera L. Ladner 226

11. Dispossession and Canadian Land Claims: Genocidal Implications of the Innu Nation Land Claim / Colin Samson 246

Part IV. (Re)Imaginings 

12. Colonial Genocide and Historical Trauma in Native North America: Complicating Contemporary Attributions / Joseph P. Gone 273

13. Buffalo Genocide in Nineteenth-Century North America: "Kill, Skin, and Sell" / Tasha Hubbard 292

14. Genocide in the Indian Residential Schools: Canadian History through the Lens of the UN Genocide Convention / David B. MacDonald 306

Afterword. Colonial Genocide and Indigenous North America: A View from Critical Genocide Studies / Alexander Laban Hinton 325

Contributors 333

Index 339