Divided peoples : policy, activism, and indigenous identities on the U.S.-Mexico border /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Leza, Christina, author.
Imprint:	Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	xv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Critical issues in indigenous studies Critical issues in indigenous studies.
Subject:	Indigenous peoples -- Mexican-American Border Region. Indian activists -- Mexican-American Border Region. Indians of North America -- Mexican-American Border Region. Indians of Mexico -- Mexican-American Border Region. Indian activists. Indians of Mexico. Indians of North America. Indigenous peoples. North America -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11969442

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Varying Form of Title:	Policy, activism, and indigenous identities on the U.S.-Mexico border
ISBN:	9780816537006 0816537003
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-214) and index.
Summary:	"Divided Peoples addresses the impact border policies have on Indigenous lands and peoples who live there, showing how such policies affect the traditional cultural survival of Indigenous peoples along the border and examining international rights tools by Native activists, counter-discourse on the U.S.-Mexico border, and challenges faced by Indigenous border activists when communicating to the broader public"--

Table of Contents:

Preface: The "Native" Anthropologist
Introduction
1. The Binational Yoeme [Yaqui] Nation
2. The "Desert People" on Militarized Desert Lands
3. An Indigenous Alliance on the Border
4. Domestic and International Border-Crossing Policy
5. Indigenous Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Border
6. The Border in Indigenous Activist Counterdiscourse
Conclusion: Maintaining, Creating, and Re-creating Ties
Appendix A. United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Appendix B. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Appendix C. International Labor Organization (ILO) Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention 169
Notes
References
Index

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