![]() ![]() In Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong, Paul Chaat Smith offers a particularly pointed commentary on non-natives’ “absolute refusal to deal with as just plain folks living in the present and not the past” (18), further noting, “Silence about our own complicated histories supports the colonizers’ idea that the only real Indians are full-blooded, from a reservation, speak their language, and practice the religion of their ancestors” (26). From this perspective, Native people(s) do not so much exist within the flow of time as erupt from it as an anomaly, one usually understood as emanating from a bygone era. Preface Native peoples occupy a double bind within dominant settler reckonings of time.1 Either they are consigned to the past, or they are inserted into a present defined on non-native terms. Courtesy of the artist and Bockley Gallery. r54 2017 (print) | lcc e77 (ebook) | ddc 970.004/97-dc23 lc record available at cover art: Andrea Carlson, Blanket Sphincter (detail). | United States-History- Colonial period, ca. | Indians, Treatment of-United States-History. paper) isbn 9780822373421 (ebook) Subjects: lcsh: Indians of North America-Colonization. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Description: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017. Title: Beyond settler time : temporal sovereignty and indigenous self-determination / Mark Rifkin. © 2017 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper ∞ Designed by Courtney Leigh Baker Typeset in Garamond Premier Pro and Scala Sans by Westchester Publishing Services Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Rifkin, Mark, author. BEYOND SETTLER T I M E Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination
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